World English Bible
"Alas Assyrian, the rod of my anger, the staff in whose hand is my indignation!"
— Isaiah 10:5, World English 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! ”
“The Lord Turns on Arrogant Assyria Beware, Assyria, the club I use to vent my anger, a cudgel with which I angrily punish.”
“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 deprive the needy from justice, and to rob the poor among my people of their rights, that widows may be their spoil, and that they may make the fatherless their prey!
What will you do in the day of visitation, and in the desolation which will come from afar? To whom will you flee for help? Where will you leave your wealth?
They will only bow down under the prisoners, and will fall under the slain. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
Alas Assyrian, the rod of my anger, the staff in whose hand is my indignation!
I will send him against a profane nation, and against the people who anger me will I give him a command to take the spoil and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.
However he doesn't mean so, neither does his heart think so; but it is in his heart to destroy, and to cut off not a few nations.
For he says, "Aren't all of my princes kings?