Isaiah 10:5-11

⁵Woe to the Assyrian, the club of my anger, the rod by whom I wield my fury!

⁶I send him against an arrogant nation and against the people who bear my overflowing wrath. I order him to take the spoil, to take the prey, and to trample them like mud in the streets.

⁷But this is not what he intends, nor does he think this way. It is in his heart to destroy and eliminate many nations.

⁸For he says, “Are not all my princes kings?

⁹Is not Kalno like Carchemish? Is not Hamath like Arpad? Is not Samaria like Damascus?

¹⁰As my hand has overcome idolatrous kingdoms, whose carved figures were greater than those of Jerusalem and Samaria,

¹¹just as I did to Samaria and her worthless idols, will I not also do the same to Jerusalem and to her idols?”