2. They deprive the poor of justice.They take away the rights of the needy among my people.They prey on widows and rob orphans.
3. What will you do on the dayyou are called to account ⌊for these things⌋,when the disaster comes from far away?Where will you run for help?Where will you leave your wealth?
4. Nothing’s left but to crouch among prisonersand to fall with those who are killed.Even after all this, his anger will not disappear,and he is still ready to use his power.
5. “How horrible it will be for Assyria!It is the rod of my anger.My fury is the staff in the Assyrians’ hands.
6. I send them against a godless nation.In my fury I order them against the peopleto take their belongings, loot them,and trample on them like mud in the streets.
7. But that’s not what they intend to do.Their minds don’t work that way.Their purpose is to destroy and put an end to many nations.