1 Woe to those who make unjust laws,to those who issue oppressive decrees,
2 to deprive the poor of their rightsand withhold justice from the oppressed of my people,making widows their preyand robbing the fatherless.
3 What will you do on the day of reckoning,when disaster comes from afar?To whom will you run for help?Where will you leave your riches?
4 Nothing will remain but to cringe among the captivesor fall among the slain.Yet for all this, his anger is not turned away,his hand is still upraised.
5 ‘Woe to the Assyrian, the rod of my anger,in whose hand is the club of my wrath!
6 I send him against a godless nation,I dispatch him against a people who anger me,to seize loot and snatch plunder,and to trample them down like mud in the streets.
7 But this is not what he intends,this is not what he has in mind;his purpose is to destroy,to put an end to many nations.