Bible Verses About The Providence of God: The wicked made to promote the designs
Verses on The wicked made to promote the designs
"Oh Ashur, the rod expressing my anger! The club in their hands is my fury!
I am sending him against a hypocritical nation, ordering him to march against a people who enrage me, to take the spoil and the plunder and trample them down like mud in the street.
That is not what Ashur intends, that is not what they think; rather, they mean to destroy, to cut down nation after nation.
For [their king] says, 'Aren't all my commanders kings?
Hasn't Kalno [suffered] like Kark'mish, Hamat like Arpad, Shomron like Dammesek?
Just as my hand reached the kingdoms of non-gods, with more images than in Yerushalayim and Shomron;
so won't I do to Yerushalayim and her non-gods what I did to Shomron and her idols?'"
Therefore when Adonai has done everything he intends to do to Mount Tziyon and Yerushalayim, "I will punish the king of Ashur for the boasting that comes from his proud heart and from reveling in his arrogant looks.
“Now, brothers, I know that you did not understand the significance of what you were doing; neither did your leaders.
But this is how God fulfilled what he had announced in advance, when he spoke through all the prophets, namely, that his Messiah was to die.