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!
8. For he says: “Aren’t all my princes kings?
9. Isn’t Calno like Carchemish? Isn’t Hamath like Arpad? Isn’t Samaria like Damascus?
10. As my hand has reached the kingdoms of the idols—with more graven images than Jerusalem and Samaria—
11. as I’ve done to Samaria and her idols, won’t I also do to Jerusalem and her idols?”