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.
7 Yet that is not what Assyria intends, nor is that what he is thinking about. Rather his heart is to destroy, and to cut down nations—only a few!
8 For he says: “Aren’t all my princes kings?
9 Isn’t Calno like Carchemish? Isn’t Hamath like Arpad? Isn’t Samaria like Damascus?
10 As my hand has reached the kingdoms of the idols—with more graven images than Jerusalem and Samaria—