Assyria and Its Future Fall
5Ha!
Assyria, rod of My anger,
In whose hand, as a staff, is My fury!
6I send him against an ungodly nation,
I charge him against a people that provokes Me,
To take its spoil and to seize its booty
And to make it a thing trampled
Like the mire of the streets.
7But he has evil plans,
His mind harbors evil designs;
For he means to destroy,
To wipe…
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