3 What will you do on the dayyou are called to account ⌊for these things⌋,when the disaster comes from far away?Where will you run for help?Where will you leave your wealth?
4 Nothing’s left but to crouch among prisonersand to fall with those who are killed.Even after all this, his anger will not disappear,and he is still ready to use his power.
5 “How horrible it will be for Assyria!It is the rod of my anger.My fury is the staff in the Assyrians’ hands.
6 I send them against a godless nation.In my fury I order them against the peopleto take their belongings, loot them,and trample on them like mud in the streets.
7 But that’s not what they intend to do.Their minds don’t work that way.Their purpose is to destroy and put an end to many nations.
8 They ask, ‘Aren’t all our commanders kings?
9 Isn’t Calno like Carchemish?Isn’t Hamath like Arpad?Isn’t Samaria like Damascus?’