Isaiah 10:5-12

Lexham English Bible

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] a trampling place,
    like the clay of the streets.
⁷ But he does not think this,^[b]
    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^[c]
    —and their images were greater than those of^[d] Jerusalem and Samaria—
¹¹ shall I not do to Jerusalem and its idols
    what I have done to Samaria and her idols?”