6. I send him against a godless nation, and I command him against the people of my wrath, to capture spoil and to carry off plunder, and to make them a trampling place, like the clay of the streets.
7. But he does not think this, and his heart does not plan this. For it is in his heart to destroy and to cut off not a few nations.
8. For he says, “Are not my commanders altogether kings?
9. Is not Calno like Carchemish? Is not Hamath like Arpad? Is not Samaria like Damascus?
10. As my hand has reached to the kingdoms of the idols —and their images were greater than those of Jerusalem and Samaria—
11. shall I not do to Jerusalem and its idols what I have done to Samaria and her idols?”
12. And this shall happen: when the Lord has finished all his work against Mount Zion and Jerusalem, “I will punish the arrogance of the king of Assyria and his haughtiness.”
13. For he says, “I have done it by the strength of my hand and by my wisdom, for I have understanding, and I have removed the boundaries of peoples, and I have plundered their stores, and like a bull I have brought down the inhabitants.