6. I will send him against a Goy Chanef, and against the people of My wrath will I give him a charge, to take the spoil, and to take the plunder, and to tread them down like the chomer chutzot (mire of the streets).
7. But he intendeth not so, neither doth his mind so consider; but it is in his lev to make an end of Goyim not a few.
8. For he saith, Are not my sarim altogether melachim?
9. Is not Calno like Carkemish? Is not Chamat like Arpad? Is not Shomron like Damascus?
10. Just as my yad hath found the mamlechot haelil, whose pesilim (molten images) did excel them of Yerushalayim and of Shomron;
11. Shall I not, as I have done unto Shomron and her elilim, so do to Yerushalayim and her atzabim (images)?
12. Wherefore it shall come to pass, that when Adonoi hath performed His whole work upon Mt Tziyon and on Yerushalayim, I will punish the fruit of the proud lev of Melech Ashur, and the tiferet of his haughty eyes.