Esaias 10:1-8

¹Woe to them that write wickedness; for when they write they do write wickedness,

²perverting the cause of the poor, violently wresting the judgment of the needy ones of my people, that the widow may be a prey to them, and the orphan a spoil.

³And what will they do in the day of visitation? for affliction shall come to you from afar: and to whom will ye flee for help? and where will ye leave your glory,

⁴that ye may not fall into captivity? For all this his wrath is not turned away, but his hand is yet exalted.

⁵Woe to the Assyrians; the rod of my wrath, and anger are in their hands.

⁶I will send my wrath against a sinful nation, and I will charge my people to take plunder and spoil, and to trample the cities, and to make them dust.

⁷But he meant not thus, neither did he devise thus in his soul: but his mind shall change, and that to destroy nations not a few.

⁸And if they should say to him, Thou alone art ruler;