Isaiah 10:5-13

5Ah! the Assyrian! the rod of mine anger! and the staff in their hand is mine indignation.

6I will send him against a hypocritical nation, and against the people of my wrath will I give him a charge; to take the spoil, and to seize the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.

7But he meaneth not so, neither doth his heart think so; for it is in his heart to extirpate and cut off nations not a few.

8For he saith, Are not my princes all kings?

9Is not Calno as Karkemish? Is not Hamath as Arpad? Is not Samaria as Damascus?

10As my hand hath found the kingdoms of the idols, — and their graven images exceeded those of Jerusalem and Samaria,

11— shall I not, as I have done unto Samaria and her idols, so do to Jerusalem and her images?

12And it shall come to pass, when the Lord hath performed his whole work upon mount Zion and upon Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the stoutness of heart of the king of Assyria, and the glory of his high looks.

13For he saith, By the strength of my hand I have done [it], and by my wisdom, for I am intelligent; and I have removed the bounds of the peoples, and have robbed their treasures, and, like a valiant man, I have brought down them that sit [on thrones];