^{5 Ref} Ho Assyrian, the rod of mine anger, the staff in whose hand is mine indignation!

^{6 Ref} I will send him against a profane nation, and against the people of my wrath will I give him a charge, to take the spoil, and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.

^{7 Ref} Howbeit he meaneth not so, neither doth his heart think so; but it is in his heart to destroy, and to cut off nations not a few.

^{8 Ref} For he saith, Are not my princes all of them kings?

^{9 Ref} Is not Calno as Carchemish? is not Hamath as Arpad? is not Samaria as Damascus?

^{10 Ref} As my hand hath found the kingdoms of the idols, whose graven images did excel them of Jerusalem and of Samaria;

^{11 Ref} shall I not, as I have done unto Samaria and her idols, so do to Jerusalem and her idols?