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.
10. Yes, we have finished off many a kingdomwhose gods were greater than those in Jerusalem and Samaria.