1 Oy to those enacting unjust decrees and recording corrupt legislation,
2 to deprive the helpless of justice and rob the rights of the poor of My people, so that widows may be their spoil and orphans their prey!
3 What will you do in the day of visitation, when desolation comes from afar? To whom will you flee for help? Where will you leave your wealth?
4 One can only crouch among the captives or collapse among the slain. For all this His anger is not turned away, yet His hand is still outstretched.
5 Oy to Assyria, the rod of My anger— the club in their hand is My indignation!
6 I am sending it against an ungodly nation, and against the people of My fury I am commissioning it, to take spoil and plunder, to trample them down like mud in the streets.