Isaiah 10:5-12 ▼

5 |How terrible it will be for Assyria, the rod of my anger! The club is in their hands!

6 I'm sending my fury against a godless nation, and I'll command him against the people with whom I'm angry to seize loot and snatch plunder, and to trample them down like mud in the streets.

7 But this is not what he intends, and this is not what he thinks in his mind; but it is in his mind to destroy, and to cut down many nations.

8 |Because this is what he is saying: 'My commanders are all kings, are they not?

9 Isn't Calno like Carchemish? Isn't Hamath like Arpad? Isn't Samaria like Damascus?

10 As my hand has reached to the idolatrous kingdoms whose carved images were greater than those of Jerusalem and Samaria,

11 will I not deal with Jerusalem and her idols as I have dealt with Samaria and her images?'|

12 |For the Lord has finished all his work against Mount Zion and against Jerusalem; he will punish the speech that comes from that willful heart of Assyria's king and the haughty look in his eyes.