5 Woe to Assyria, the rod of My angerand the staff in whose hand is My indignation.
6 I will send him against an ungodly nation,and against the people of My wrath I will give him a command,to seize the plunder, to take the prey,and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.
7 However he does not so intend,nor does he plan so in his heart;but his purpose is to destroyand to cut off many nations.
8 For he says, “Are not my princes altogether kings?
9 Is not Kalno as Carchemish?Is not Hamath as Arpad?Is not Samaria as Damascus?
10 As my hand has found the kingdoms of the idolswhose graven images were greater than those of Jerusalem and Samaria,
11 shall I not, as I have done to Samaria and her idols,so do to Jerusalem and her idols?”