Verse 1 :
Woe to those who decree unrighteous decrees ::
and who write unjust judgments which they have prescribed Verses 1–4 function as a bridge between series of passages ending with the same refrain (cf. verse 4; continuing the discourse of
Isaiah 9, and extends the "woes" set out in
chapter 5), and the attack on Assyria, which shares one introduction.
Verse 4 :
Without me they shall bow down under the prisoners, ::
and they shall fall under the slain. :
For all this his anger is not turned away, ::
but his hand is stretched out still. The refrain "For all this ... still" first appeared in
Isaiah 5:25 and also appears here as well as in
Isaiah 9:12,
9:17, and
9:21. ==Judgment on Assyria (10:5–19)==