¹² His armies come on together, they make their road high against me, and put up their tents round mine.

¹² The lines of his men of war put themselves in order, and make high their ways of destruction against me:

¹¹ God gives me over to the power of sinners, sending me violently into the hands of evil-doers.

¹³ His bowmen come round about me; their arrows go through my body without mercy; my life is drained out on the earth.

⁵ Ho! Assyrian, the rod of my wrath, the instrument of my punishment!

⁶ I will send him against a nation of wrongdoers, and against the people of my wrath I will give him orders, to take their wealth in war, crushing them down like the dust in the streets.

²³ And I will put it into the hand of your cruel masters, and of those whose yoke has been hard on you; who have said to your soul, Down on your face! so that we may go over you: and you have given your backs like the earth, even like the street, for them to go over.