9 Is not Calneh like Carchemish?Hamath like Arpad?Samaria like Damascus?
10 I overpowered kingdoms ruled by idols,whose carved images were more impressive than Jerusalem’s or Samaria’s.
11 As I have done to Samaria and its idols,so I will do to Jerusalem and its idols.”
12 But when the sovereign master finishes judging Mount Zion and Jerusalem, then I will punish the king of Assyria for what he has proudly planned and for the arrogant attitude he displays.
13 For he says:“By my strong hand I have accomplished this,by my strategy that I devised.I invaded the territory of nations,and looted their storehouses.Like a mighty conqueror, I brought down rulers.
14 My hand discovered the wealth of the nations, as if it were in a nest,as one gathers up abandoned eggs,I gathered up the whole earth.There was no wing flapping,or open mouth chirping.”
15 Does an ax exalt itself over the one who wields it,or a saw magnify itself over the one who cuts with it?As if a scepter should brandish the one who raises it,or a staff should lift up what is not made of wood!