Isaiah 10:5-7

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

⁵ Ah, Assyria, the rod of my anger,
    the staff of my fury!^[a]
6 Against a godless nation I send him,
    and against the people of my wrath I command him,
to take spoil and seize plunder,
    and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.
⁷ But he does not so intend,
    and his mind does not so think;
but it is in his mind to destroy,
    and to cut off nations not a few;