19 to those who say:
“Let Him hurry up and do His work quickly
so that we can see it!
Let the plan(A) of the Holy One of Israel(B) take place
so that we can know it!”

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Assyria, the Instrument of Wrath

Woe to Assyria, the rod of My anger—
the staff in their hands is My wrath.
I will send him against a godless nation;
I will command him to go
against a people destined for My rage,
to take spoils, to plunder,
and to trample them down like clay(A) in the streets.

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Assyria Will Be Destroyed

24 The Lord of Hosts has sworn:

As I have purposed, so it will be;
as I have planned it, so it will happen.(A)
25 I will break Assyria(B) in My land;
I will tread him down on My mountain.
Then his yoke will be taken from them,
and his burden will be removed from their shoulders.
26 This is the plan(C) prepared
for the whole earth,
and this is the hand stretched out
against all the nations.

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11 You made a reservoir between the walls(A) for the waters of the ancient pool,(B) but you did not look to the One who made it, or consider the One who created it long ago.

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11 I call a bird of prey[a] from the east,(A)
a man for My purpose from a far country.
Yes, I have spoken; so I will also bring it about.(B)
I have planned it; I will also do it.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 46:11 = Cyrus

11 So now, say to the men of Judah and to the residents of Jerusalem: This is what the Lord says: I am about to bring harm to you and make plans against you. Turn now, each from your evil way, and correct your ways and your deeds.(A)

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23 Though He was delivered up according to God’s determined plan and foreknowledge, you used[a] lawless people[b] to nail Him to a cross and kill Him.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. Acts 2:23 Other mss read you have taken
  2. Acts 2:23 Or used the hand of lawless ones

27 “For, in fact, in this city both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the people[a] of Israel, assembled together against Your holy Servant Jesus, whom You anointed,(A) 28 to do whatever Your hand and Your plan had predestined to take place.

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Footnotes

  1. Acts 4:27 Lit peoples

and

A stone to stumble over,[a]
and a rock to trip over.[b](A)[c]

They stumble because they disobey the message; they were destined(B) for this.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Peter 2:8 Or a stone causing stumbling
  2. 1 Peter 2:8 Or a rock to trip over
  3. 1 Peter 2:8 Is 8:14

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