jps - Isaiah:10:5-12

jps@Isaiah:10:5 @ O Asshur, the rod of Mine anger, in whose hand as a staff is Mine indignation!

jps@Isaiah:10:6 @ I do send him against an ungodly nation, and against the people of My wrath do 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.

jps@Isaiah:10:7 @ Howbeit he meaneth not so, neither doth his heart think so; but it is in his heart to destroy, and to cut off nations not a few.

jps@Isaiah:10:8 @ For he saith: 'Are not my princes all of them kings?

jps@Isaiah:10:9 @ Is not Calno as Carchemish? Is not Hamath as Arpad? Is not Samaria as Damascus?

jps@Isaiah:10:10 @ As my hand hath reached the kingdoms of the idols, whose graven images did exceed them of Jerusalem and of Samaria;

jps@Isaiah:10:11 @ Shall I not, as I have done unto Samaria and her idols, so do to Jerusalem and her idols?'

jps@Isaiah:10:12 @ Wherefore it shall come to pass, that when the Lord hath performed His whole work upon mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the arrogant heart of the king of Assyria, and the glory of his haughty looks.