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What will you do in the day of visitation, and in the desolation which will come from afar? To whom will you flee for help? Where will you leave your wealth?

They will only bow down under the prisoners,

    and will fall under the slain.
For all this his anger is not turned away,
    but his hand is stretched out still.

Alas Assyrian, the rod of my anger, the staff in whose hand is my indignation!

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What will you do on the day of reckoning,(A)
    when disaster(B) comes from afar?
To whom will you run for help?(C)
    Where will you leave your riches?
Nothing will remain but to cringe among the captives(D)
    or fall among the slain.(E)

Yet for all this, his anger is not turned away,(F)
    his hand is still upraised.

God’s Judgment on Assyria

“Woe(G) to the Assyrian,(H) the rod(I) of my anger,
    in whose hand is the club(J) of my wrath!(K)

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