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save that they bow down under the prisoners
    and fall under the slain?[a]
In all of this his anger has not turned away,
    and still his hand is stretched out.

Judgment on Assyria’s Arrogance

Ah! Assyria, the rod of my anger,
    and a staff is in their hand: my wrath!
I send him against a godless nation,
    and I command him against the people of my wrath,
to capture spoil
    and to carry off plunder,
and to make them[b] a trampling place,
    like the clay of the streets.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 10:4 Literally “except he will bow down under a prisoner and under slain they will fall”; “under” could also mean “in the place of”
  2. Isaiah 10:6 Hebrew “him”