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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[a] a trampling place,
    like the clay of the streets.
But he does not think this,[b]
    and his heart does not plan this.
For it is in his heart to destroy
    and to cut off not a few nations.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 10:6 Hebrew “him”
  2. Isaiah 10:7 Or “so”

God’s Judgment on Assyria

“Woe(A) to the Assyrian,(B) the rod(C) of my anger,
    in whose hand is the club(D) of my wrath!(E)
I send him against a godless(F) nation,
    I dispatch(G) him against a people who anger me,(H)
to seize loot and snatch plunder,(I)
    and to trample(J) them down like mud in the streets.
But this is not what he intends,(K)
    this is not what he has in mind;
his purpose is to destroy,
    to put an end to many nations.

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