2. to guide the needy away from legal claims, and to rob the justice from the poor of my people, to make widows their spoil; and they plunder orphans.
3. And what will you do at the day of punishment, and at calamity? It comes from afar! To whom will you flee for help, and where will you leave your wealth,
4. save that they bow down under the prisoners and fall under the slain? In all of this his anger has not turned away, and still his hand is stretched out.
5. Ah! Assyria, the rod of my anger, and a staff is in their hand: my wrath!
6. 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 trampling place, like the clay of the streets.
7. But he does not think this, and his heart does not plan this. For it is in his heart to destroy and to cut off not a few nations.
8. For he says, “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 —and their images were greater than those of Jerusalem and Samaria—
11. shall I not do to Jerusalem and its idols what I have done to Samaria and her idols?”
12. And this shall happen: when the Lord has finished all his work against Mount Zion and Jerusalem, “I will punish the arrogance of the king of Assyria and his haughtiness.”