rsv Isaiah:10:5-16
rsv@Isaiah:10:5 @ Ah, Assyria, the rod of my anger, the staff of my fury!
rsv@Isaiah:10:6 @ Against a godless nation I send him, and against the people of my wrath I command him, to take spoil and seize plunder, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.
rsv@Isaiah:10:7 @ But he does not so intend, and his mind does not so think; but it is in his mind to destroy, and to cut off nations not a few;
rsv@Isaiah:10:8 @ for he says: "Are not my commanders all kings?
rsv@Isaiah:10:9 @ Is not Calno like Car'chemish? Is not Hamath like Arpad? Is not Sama'ria like Damascus?
rsv@Isaiah:10:10 @ As my hand has reached to the kingdoms of the idols whose graven images were greater than those of Jerusalem and Sama'ria,
rsv@Isaiah:10:11 @ shall I not do to Jerusalem and her idols as I have done to Sama'ria and her images?"
rsv@Isaiah:10:12 @ When the Lord has finished all his work on Mount Zion and on Jerusalem he will punish the arrogant boasting of the king of Assyria and his haughty pride.
rsv@Isaiah:10:13 @ For he says: "By the strength of my hand I have done it, and by my wisdom, for I have understanding; I have removed the boundaries of peoples, and have plundered their treasures; like a bull I have brought down those who sat on thrones.
rsv@Isaiah:10:14 @ My hand has found like a nest the wealth of the peoples; and as men gather eggs that have been forsaken so I have gathered all the earth; and there was none that moved a wing, or opened the mouth, or chirped."
rsv@Isaiah:10:15 @ Shall the axe vaunt itself over him who hews with it, or the saw magnify itself against him who wields it? As if a rod should wield him who lifts it, or as if a staff should lift him who is not wood!
rsv@Isaiah:10:16 @ Therefore the Lord, the LORD of hosts, will send wasting sickness among his stout warriors, and under his glory a burning will be kindled, like the burning of fire.
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