Judgment on Assyria’s Arrogance

• 5 and a staff is in their hand: my wrath!
• 6  and I command him against the people of my wrath,
• to capture spoil
  • and to carry off plunder,
• and to make them[fn] a trampling place,
  • like the clay of the streets.
  • 7 [fn] and his heart does not plan this.
• For it is in his heart to destroy
  • and to cut off not a few nations.
• 8 Are not my commanders altogether kings?
  • 9 Is not Calno like Carchemish? Is not Hamath like Arpad?
  • Is not Samaria like Damascus?

10 As my hand has reached to the kingdoms of the idols[fn] —and their images were greater than those of[fn] Jerusalem and Samaria—

11 shall I not do to Jerusalem and its idolswhat I have done to Samaria and her idols?”

12 And this shall happen: when the Lord has finished all his work against Mount Zion[fn] and Jerusalem, “I will punish the arrogance[fn] of the king of Assyria andhis haughtiness.”[fn]

• 13 For he says,“I have done it by the strength of my hand
  • and by my wisdom, for I have understanding,
• and I have removed the boundaries of peoples,
  • and I have plundered their stores,
  • and like a bull I have brought down[fn]
  • 14 a nest, the wealth of the peoples, and like the gathering of forsaken eggs, I myself have gathered all the earth.
    • And there was no fluttering wing or open mouth or chirp.”
  • 15  or the saw magnify itself against the one who moves it to and fro?
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  • 16  and a burning like the burning of fire will burn under his glory.
  • 17  and his holy one like a flame,
• and it will burn and devour his thorns[fn] and briers[fn] in one day.
  • 18 [fn] and it will be like the wasting away of one who is sick.
  • 19 [fn] of his forest will be a small number, and a boy can write them down.