Bible verse
Woe to Assyria, the rod of My anger; the staff in their hands is My wrath.
Isaiah 10:5 · BSB
The verses around it, from Isaiah 10.
1 Woe to those who enact unjust statutes and issue oppressive decrees,
2 to deprive the poor of fair treatment and withhold justice from the oppressed of My people, to make widows their prey and orphans their plunder.
3 What will you do on the day of reckoning when devastation comes from afar? To whom will you flee for help? Where will you leave your wealth?
4 Nothing will remain but to crouch among the captives or fall among the slain. Despite all this, His anger is not turned away; His hand is still upraised.
5 Woe to Assyria, the rod of My anger; the staff in their hands is My wrath.
6 I will send him against a godless nation; I will dispatch him against a people destined for My rage, to take spoils and seize plunder, and to trample them down like clay in the streets.
7 But this is not his intention; this is not his plan. For it is in his heart to destroy and cut off many nations.
8 “Are not all my commanders kings?” he says.
9 “Is not Calno like Carchemish? Is not Hamath like Arpad? Is not Samaria like Damascus?
KJV
O Assyrian, the rod of mine anger, and the staff in their hand is mine indignation.
ASV
Ho Assyrian, the rod of mine anger, the staff in whose hand is mine indignation!
ERV
Ho Assyrian, the rod of mine anger, the staff in whose hand is mine indignation!
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