Isaiah 10:4-10

⁴Without me they shall kneel down under the prisoners, and under the slain shall they fall. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand still remaineth stretched out.

⁵Woe over Asshur, the rod of my anger; and a staff is in their hand my indignation.

⁶Against a hypocritical nation will I send him, and against the people of my fury will I give him a charge, to take the spoil, and to carry off the prey, and to render them trodden down like the mire of the streets.

⁷But he deemeth it not so, and his heart doth not think so; but to destroy is in his heart, and to cut off nations not a few.

⁸For he saith, “Are not my princes altogether kings?

⁹Is not Calno like Karkemish? is not Chamath like Arpad? is not Samaria like Damascus?

¹⁰As my hand hath reached the kingdoms of the idols, whose graven images exceeded in number those of Jerusalem and of Samaria: