^{5 Ref} Wo `to' Asshur, a rod of Mine anger, And a staff in their hand `is' Mine indignation.

^{6 Ref} Against a profane nation I send him, And concerning a people of My wrath I charge him, To spoil spoil, and to seize prey, And to make it a treading-place as the clay of out places.

^{7 Ref} And he -- he thinketh not so, And his heart reckoneth not so, For -- to destroy `is' in his heart, And to cut off nations not a few.

^{8 Ref} For he saith, `Are not my princes altogether kings?

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

^{10 Ref} As my hand hath got to the kingdoms of a worthless thing, and their graven images, `Greater' than Jerusalem and than Samaria,

^{11 Ref} Do I not -- as I have done to Samaria, And to her worthless things, So do to Jerusalem and to her grievous things?