6. “Against a defiled nation I send him, and against the people of My wrath I command him to seize the spoil, to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mud of the streets.
7. “But he does not intend so, nor does his heart think so, for it is in his heart to destroy, and cut off not a few nations.
8. “For he says, ‘Are not my princes sovereigns?
9. ‘Is not Kalno like Karkemish? Is not Ḥamath like Arpaḏ? Is not Shomeron like Damascus?