1. Oy to those enacting unjust decrees and recording corrupt legislation,
2. to deprive the helpless of justice and rob the rights of the poor of My people, so that widows may be their spoil and orphans their prey!
3. What will you do in the day of visitation, when desolation comes from afar? To whom will you flee for help? Where will you leave your wealth?
4. One can only crouch among the captives or collapse among the slain. For all this His anger is not turned away, yet His hand is still outstretched.
5. Oy to Assyria, the rod of My anger— the club in their hand is My indignation!
6. I am sending it against an ungodly nation, and against the people of My fury I am commissioning it, to take spoil and plunder, to trample them down like mud in the streets.
7. Yet that is not what Assyria intends, nor is that what he is thinking about. Rather his heart is to destroy, and to cut down nations—only a few!