Isaiah 10:5-12 ▼

5 Assyria, the club I use to vent my anger, is as good as dead, a cudgel with which I angrily punish.

6 I sent him against a godless nation, I ordered him to attack the people with whom I was angry, to take plunder and to carry away loot, to trample them down like dirt in the streets.

7 But he does not agree with this, his mind does not reason this way, for his goal is to destroy, and to eliminate many nations.

8 Indeed, he says: |Are not my officials all kings?

9 Is not Calneh like Carchemish? Hamath like Arpad? Samaria like Damascus?

10 I overpowered kingdoms ruled by idols, whose carved images were more impressive than Jerusalem's or Samaria's.

11 As I have done to Samaria and its idols, so I will do to Jerusalem and its idols.|

12 But when the sovereign master finishes judging Mount Zion and Jerusalem, then I will punish the king of Assyria for what he has proudly planned and for the arrogant attitude he displays.