Isaiah 10:5-12

5Assyria, the club I use to vent my anger, is as good as dead, a cudgel with which I angrily punish.

6I sent him against a godless nation, I ordered him to attack the people with whom I was angry, to take plunder and to carry away loot, to trample them down like dirt in the streets.

7But he does not agree with this, his mind does not reason this way, for his goal is to destroy, and to eliminate many nations.

8Indeed, he says: “Are not my officials all kings?

9Is not Calneh like Carchemish? Hamath like Arpad? Samaria like Damascus?

10I overpowered kingdoms ruled by idols, whose carved images were more impressive than Jerusalem’s or Samaria’s.

11As I have done to Samaria and its idols, so I will do to Jerusalem and its idols.”

12But when the sovereign master finishes judging Mount Zion and Jerusalem, then I will punish the king of Assyria for what he has proudly planned and for the arrogant attitude he displays.