MLV(i)
5 Ho, Assyrian, the rod of my anger, the staff in whose hand is my indignation!
6 I will send him against a profane nation and against the people of my wrath. I will give him a charge, to take the spoil and to take the prey and to tread them down like the mud of the streets.
7 However he does not so reason, nor does his heart so think, but it is in his heart to destroy and to cut off nations not a few. 8 For he says, Are not my rulers all of them kings? 9 Is not Calno as Carchemish? Is not Hamath as Arpad? Is not Samaria as Damascus? 10 As my hand has found the kingdoms of the idols, whose graven images excelled those of Jerusalem and of Samaria, 11 shall I not, as I have done to Samaria and her idols, so do to Jerusalem and her idols?
7 However he does not so reason, nor does his heart so think, but it is in his heart to destroy and to cut off nations not a few. 8 For he says, Are not my rulers all of them kings? 9 Is not Calno as Carchemish? Is not Hamath as Arpad? Is not Samaria as Damascus? 10 As my hand has found the kingdoms of the idols, whose graven images excelled those of Jerusalem and of Samaria, 11 shall I not, as I have done to Samaria and her idols, so do to Jerusalem and her idols?