CLV(i)
5 Woe, Assyria! Club of My anger! And a rod! He, in their hand, is My menace!"
6 Among a nation polluted will I send him. And against a people, object of My rage, will I instruct him. To loot loot and to plunder plunder, and to place them for tramping, as the clay of the streets."
7 Yet he, not so is he planning, and his heart, not so is devising, for to exterminate is in his heart, and to cut off nations not a few."
8 For saying is he, "Are not my chiefs altogether kings?
9 Is not, as Carchemish, Calno? Should not, as Arphad, be Hamath? Should not, as Damascus, be Samaria?
10 As my hand found all the kingdoms of the forbidden idols, and their carvings, more than Jerusalem's and than Samaria's,
11 shall I not, as I did to Samaria and to her forbidden idols, so do to Jerusalem and to her grief fetishes?