1. Ah! Those who enact unjust statutes,who write oppressive decrees,
2. Depriving the needy of judgment,robbing my people’s poor of justice,Making widows their plunder,and orphans their prey!
3. What will you do on the day of punishment,when the storm comes from afar?To whom will you flee for help?Where will you leave your wealth,
4. Lest it sink beneath the captiveor fall beneath the slain?For all this, his wrath is not turned back,his hand is still outstretched!
5. Ah! Assyria, the rod of my wrath,the staff I wield in anger.
6. Against an impious nation I send him,and against a people under my wrath I order himTo seize plunder, carry off loot,and to trample them like the mud of the street.