3 What will you do when I punish you,when I send disaster upon you from a distant land?To whom will you turn for help?Where will your treasures be safe?
4 You will stumble along as prisonersor lie among the dead.But even then the lord’s anger will not be satisfied.His fist is still poised to strike.
5 “What sorrow awaits Assyria, the rod of my anger.I use it as a club to express my anger.
6 I am sending Assyria against a godless nation,against a people with whom I am angry.Assyria will plunder them,trampling them like dirt beneath its feet.
7 But the king of Assyria will not understand that he is my tool;his mind does not work that way.His plan is simply to destroy,to cut down nation after nation.
8 He will say,‘Each of my princes will soon be a king.
9 We destroyed Calno just as we did Carchemish.Hamath fell before us as Arpad did.And we destroyed Samaria just as we did Damascus.