^{5 Ref} Ho Assyrian, the rod of my anger, the staff in whose hand is my 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} 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.

^{8 Ref} For he says, Aren't my princes all of them kings?

^{9 Ref} Isn't Calno as Carchemish? Isn't Hamath as Arpad? Isn't Samaria as Damascus?

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

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