4 You will have to bow down among the captivesor fall down among the dead bodies.But the Lord is still angry;his hand is still raised to strike down the people.
5 God says, “How terrible it will be for the king of Assyria.I use him like a rod to show my anger;in anger I use Assyria like a club.
6 I send it to fight against a nation that is separated from God.I am angry with those people,so I command Assyria to fight against them,to take their wealth from them,to trample them down like dirt in the streets.
7 But Assyria’s king doesn’t understand that I am using him;he doesn’t know he is a tool for me.He only wants to destroy other peopleand to defeat many nations.
8 The king of Assyria says to himself,‘All of my commanders are like kings.
9 The city Calno is like the city Carchemish.The city Hamath is like the city Arpad.The city Samaria is like the city Damascus.
10 I defeated those kingdoms that worship idols,and those idols were more than the idols of Jerusalem and Samaria.