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.
8 For he says,“Aren’t all my commanders kings?
9 Isn’t Calno like Carchemish?Isn’t Hamath like Arpad?Isn’t Samaria like Damascus?
10 As my hand seized the idolatrous kingdoms,whose idols exceeded those of Jerusalem and Samaria,
11 and as I did to Samaria and its idolswill I not also do to Jerusalem and its idols?”