Isaiah 10:7-13

CLV(i) 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? 12 Yet it comes, when Yahweh will clip off all His doings in mount Zion and in Jerusalem, I will visit evil on the fruit of the insolent heart of the king of Assyria, and the high beauty of his eyes." 13 For, says he, "By the vigor of my hand I did it, and by my wisdom, for understanding have I. And I am taking away the boundaries of the peoples, and their equipment I rob. And I am bringing down, as a sturdy one, their dwellers,