1 Woe to those enacting crooked statutesand writing oppressive laws
2 to keep the poor from getting a fair trialand to deprive the afflicted among my people of justice, so that widows can be their spoiland they can plunder the fatherless.
3 What will you do on the day of punishmentwhen devastation comes from far away?Who will you run to for help?Where will you leave your wealth?
4 There will be nothing to doexcept crouch among the prisonersor fall among the slain.In all this, His anger is not removed,and His hand is still raised to strike.
5 Woe to Assyria, the rod of My anger —the staff in their hands is My wrath.
6 I will send him against a godless nation;I will command him to goagainst a people destined for My rage,to take spoils, to plunder, and to trample them down like clay in the streets.
7 But this is not what he intends;this is not what he plans.It is his intent to destroyand to cut off many nations.