NET Bible
"The Lord Turns on Arrogant Assyria Beware, Assyria, the club I use to vent my anger, a cudgel with which I angrily punish."
— Isaiah 10:5, NET Bible
“O Assyrian, the rod of mine anger, and the staff in their hand is mine indignation.”
“ Ho Assyrian, the rod of mine anger, the staff in whose hand is mine indignation! ”
“Alas Assyrian, the rod of my anger, the staff in whose hand is my indignation!”
“Woe to the Assyrian, he is the rod and the staff of my anger, and my indignation is in their hands.”
“Ho! Assyrian, the rod of my wrath, the instrument of my punishment!”
“O Assyrian, the rod of mine anger, and the staff in their hand is mine indignation.”
to keep the poor from getting fair treatment, and to deprive the oppressed among my people of justice, so they can steal what widows own, and loot what belongs to orphans.
What will you do on judgment day, when destruction arrives from a distant place? To whom will you run for help? Where will you leave your wealth?
You will have no place to go, except to kneel with the prisoners, or to fall among those who have been killed. Despite all this, his anger does not subside, and his hand is ready to strike again.
The Lord Turns on Arrogant Assyria Beware, Assyria, the club I use to vent my anger, a cudgel with which I angrily punish.
I sent him against a godless nation, I ordered him to attack the people with whom I was angry, to take plunder and to carry away loot, to trample them down like dirt in the streets.
But he does not agree with this, his mind does not reason this way, for his goal is to destroy, and to eliminate many nations.
Indeed, he says:“Are not my officials all kings?