Isaiah 10:5-11

Assyria: The Rod of God's Anger

Isaiah 10:5-11
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Alas Assyrian, the rod of my anger, the staff in whose hand is my indignation!
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I will send him against a profane nation, and against the people who anger me will I give him a command to take the plunder and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.
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However he doesn’t mean so, neither does his heart think so; but it is in his heart to destroy, and to cut off not a few nations.
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For he says, “Aren’t all of my princes kings?
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Isn’t Calno like Carchemish? Isn’t Hamath like Arpad? Isn’t Samaria like Damascus?”
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As my hand has found the kingdoms of the idols, whose engraved images exceeded those of Jerusalem and of Samaria;
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shall I not, as I have done to Samaria and her idols, so do to Jerusalem and her idols?
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