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5 Ah! Assyria, the rod of my anger, and a staff is in their hand: my wrath!
6 I send him against a godless nation, and I command him against the people of my wrath, to capture spoil and to carry off plunder, and to make them* a trampling place, like the clay of the streets.
7 But he does not think this,* and his heart does not plan this. For it is in his heart to destroy and to cut off not a few nations.
8 For he says, "Are not my commanders altogether kings?
9 Is not Calno like Carchemish? Is not Hamath like Arpad? Is not Samaria like Damascus?
10 As my hand has reached to the kingdoms of the idols* —and their images were ⌊greater than those of⌋* Jerusalem and Samaria—
11 shall I not do to Jerusalem and its idols what I have done to Samaria and her idols?"