1 [YAH continues,] โDisaster [falls] because [your country's leaders] decree unjust statutes, ๐. [Doomed politicians] draft legislation designed to oppress.
2 [False authorities] push impoverished [people] off [the path to] justice, ๐. [Ignoble โnoblesโ] pillage the rights of my people [who] dangle [by a thread]. [Politicians] prey on widows. [Governors] plunder orphans.3 What will you [politicos] do on Judgment day, when devastation swoops in from afar? To whom will you flee for help? Where will you hide your [ill-gotten] riches?4 You [greedy pigs] end up bowing down as prisoners. Or hiding [from soldiers] underneath [stinking] dead bodies. Or falling [to the infidel's sword]. Still, after all this, [your destroyer] rages on. His power-fist stretches to the sky [to smash you]. | Isaiah Predicts Assyria's Conquest Of Judea | 5 Watch out, [Jerusalem]! [Sargon the] Assyrian {Iraqi} is the club of my [holy] anger. I'm foaming at the mouth. I [put] the [military] beating-stick in the [Emperor's] hand [to teach you hypocrites a lesson the whole world will never forget].
6 I'm sending [the evil Empire] to [smash] your soiled nation. I'm commissioning [the Emperor] to seize the spoil of my outrageous ex-minions, to take [them as] prey [in his jaws], to tread them down like mire in the streets. | YAH Promises To Destroy Assyria Next | 7 [But the Emperor] doesn't realize that I'm [deploying him specifically to punish Israel]. He sets his heart on [wreaking a world-]destroying [tsunami] of multi-national head-chopping.โ
8 [The tyrant] brags, โMy princes [outweigh other nations'] kings! 9 โ [I destroy every city alike: I crushed] Calno like [I collapsed] Carchemish {Syria}. [I squashed] Hamath {Joined-Walls} like [I trampled] like Arpad {Land-Spread}. [I shattered] Samaria {Watch-Tower} like [I splintered Syrian] Damascus. 10 โMy fists routinely grab kingdoms [watched over by] statuesque idol-gods far greater than the [invisible God] of Jerusalem and Samaria! 11 How can I fail to smash Jerusalem and her idols like I smashed Samaria and her gods?!โ 12 So, ๐, as soon as YHVH performs his massive overhaul on mount Zion and on Jerusalem, [he] swoops in to squash Assyria's [most rotten] fruit, the rock-hard heart of Emperor [Sargon II]. [Watch YAH punch out Sargon's] beautiful haughty eyes! YHVH appears in the primitive texts, not the scribal substitute: 'Adonai'.
Sargon II (died 705 BC), Emperor of Assyria 721โ705 BC. Probably a son of Tiglath-pileser III. Historians note Sargon for his conquest of cities in Syria and Palestine.13 The [braggart] spouts, โI [conquer the world] by the power of my own fist! By my ingenious schemes I erase national boundaries. I rob [dynasties of] their treasure. I sit my giant [rear-end down on their cities]. I squash their citizens [under my weight].14 โMy hand finds [a] country's riches like a [hunter finds a bird's] nest. I gather the whole earth like a [boy] gathers [neglected] eggs. [My enemy kings] don't [dare] rustle their wings, nor open their beaks [to shout in protest]. They're [too scared to make] a peep!โ15 [Isaiah continues,] โ๐, I ask you, can an axe insult the axeman who wields it to chop? Can a saw spiral itself [in power] over the sawman who rocks it? Can a bludgeon-stick swing itself against the [cop] who lifts it high? [No! A weapon] is just an [inert] chunk of wood, [like the world's blockhead politicians]!16 So [YHVH] Adon {Lord}, the Sovereign-over-all-armies, strips [the world's] musclebound [brutes] down to skin-n-bones, ๐. [Watch YAH] kindle a burning fire under his โMajestyโ [the Emperor]. [Watch the Emperor, chained to his throne, writhe screaming as judgment's inferno licks off his skin.] | YAH Promises To Revive Israel After The War | 17 [In time,] Israel's dying light bursts into a [wild] fire. [Israel's] Holy-One [jets down] like flame. [He] burns [the evil world]. He devours [humanity's] โbuckthornsโ and โbriersโ in a single day, ๐.
18 [YAH's fire] consumes the [Emperor's] majestic forest. [Blaze banishes the king's] fruitful fields [of slavery. Demons eat the Emperor's] spirit. [Dogs chew] his flesh. [The proud king] falls like a fainting banner-bearer [shot in battle].19 The [brat-king's] surviving โtreesโ in his โforestโ of [concubined-spawned princes] end up numbering so few that a toddler can list them, ๐.20 YHVH alone" href="?themes=16.8" target="The_Theme_Of_Serving YHVH alone"> The day dawns when Israel's survivors, the escaped [remnant] of Jacob's descendants, forever stop clinging to their [bad โboyfriendsโ, the world leaders] who beat them. You [finally] stick with YHVH, the Holy-One of Israel, for real [this time], ๐. [No more religious games.]21 The โremnantโ [saints] return [from slavery], ๐. Jacob's stragglers [flock] back to [YHVH], the mighty El {Power}. Remnant returning = Isaiah's son's name: โShear-Jashubโ.22 Your people (Israel) come to again number like the sand of the sea, ๐. But [in the end,] only a [statistical] few of you escape [judgment] to repent. [YAH's] verdict stands. [Watch] the fully-deserved flood of destructive justice [drop from heaven to purge Judeo-Christianity of its hypocritical masses]. Rise above the religious crowd. Don't get caught beneath the flood of justice. Every judgment pronounced on Israel falls on Christianity as well.23 YHVH- Adonai-over-armies is putting a decisive, [devouring] end to [the corruption] at the heart of the whole world, ๐. 24 So Adonai YHVH-commander-of-armies decrees: โOh my people who dwell in [the shadow of bright-shining mount] Zion! Stop [shaking in] reverence before the Assyrian [Emperor]. [Yes,] he beats you with the club [of military force]. He lifts up his switch to whip you [again and again]. But [he comes to die like Pharaoh] of Egypt.25 โJust wait a moment, ๐. [Your enemy's] mouth-frothing [fury] eventually dies-out. Watch my fire-breathing-rage consume [your foes].โ26 ๐, YHVH-Commander-Of-Armies stirs up a scourge to [scorpion-whip your enemies] just like [Gideon's band] slaughtered [the armies of] Midian {Brawler} at Oreb {Raven} Rock. [YAH is about to kill your attackers. They soon fall] like [when Moses lifted] his rod over the [โRedโ] Sea, when [YAH] hurled [Pharaoh and his army to death's depths]. Midian: Judg 7:25.27 See the day dawn when [YAH] takes [your slave-master's] burden from your shoulders, ๐. [The world-system's] yoke lifts off your neck. Your shackles fly apart in the face of your strength. | Isaiah Warns King Ahaz: Assyria Invades! | 28 [But as for you, evil] king Ahaz {Possessor}, your future holds only doomsday. [Your darling Emperor Sargon's army] reaches Ai {Ruins}. He pushes south of Migron {Cliff}. He lines up his war-machines at Michmash {Hidden}.
29 The [Assyrians come to] cross the [Michmash] Pass, [7 miles north of Jerusalem]. They lodge [unchallenged 5 miles north of Jerusalem] at Geba {Hillock}. The Ramah {Heights}, [2.5 miles north of Jerusalem] shake [in terror. Little Israeli girls feel millions of Assyrian combat boots quake the earth underfoot. All the Israelis] run [screaming from old king] Saul's [homeland] of Gibeah {Milk-Hill}. 30 [Near Bethlehem, the women of] Bat-Gallim {Daughter-Of-The-Rolling-Springs} shriek so loud [that lions] prick up their ears [50 miles north] in Laish {Lion-Land}! [3 miles north-east of Jerusalem,] Anathoth {Answer-Town} [lies silent,] smashed. 31 [West, in Palestine,] Madmenah {Dunghill} flushes away, ๐. The settlers of Gebim {Cisterns} circle their [wagons]. They flee [south toward Egypt]. 32 Now [Sargon] stands [10-hours-march away] at Nob {Fruit}, ๐. He shakes his [iron] fist [east] toward Mount Zion's daughter-hill: Jerusalem, [the โCity-Of-Peaceโ]. Exactly the same war broils today: Iraqi terrorists attack Judea from Palestine. Isaiah prophesies about your own life.33 Watch, ๐: [through Sargon's military arm], the Adonai, YHVH-Commander-Of-All-Armies, slashes off [Judean society's] rotten โbranches.โ [Jewish] high-rollers scream in terror, hewn down [by Assyrian swords]. Stuck-up [noses] dig down [dead] in [Israel's] dirt. 34 With [his] iron-fist, [YAH's avenger] hacks down [Judea's] โforest thicketsโ [of corruption], ๐. Lebanon {White-Mountain} tumbles with one mighty blow [of Assyria's ax]! On Aug. 4 2020, amidst Syrian oppression and multi-directional Middleast war, one of history's most massive explosions blew the prime part of Lebanon's capitol city (Beirut) into the ocean. | | | | |