Isaiah 10:8 net — Indeed, he says:“Are not my officials all kings?

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.

Is not Calneh like Carchemish? Hamath like Arpad? Samaria like Damascus?

I overpowered kingdoms ruled by idols, whose carved images were more impressive than Jerusalem’s or Samaria’s.

As I have done to Samaria and its idols, so I will do to Jerusalem and its idols.”