2 Depriving the needy of judgment,robbing my people’s poor of justice,Making widows their plunder,and orphans their prey!
3 What will you do on the day of punishment,when the storm comes from afar?To whom will you flee for help?Where will you leave your wealth,
4 Lest it sink beneath the captiveor fall beneath the slain?For all this, his wrath is not turned back,his hand is still outstretched!
5 Ah! Assyria, the rod of my wrath,the staff I wield in anger.
6 Against an impious nation I send him,and against a people under my wrath I order himTo seize plunder, carry off loot,and to trample them like the mud of the street.
7 But this is not what he intends,nor does he have this in mind;Rather, it is in his heart to destroy,to make an end of not a few nations.
8 For he says, “Are not my commanders all kings?”