⁵ Woe to Assyria, the rod of my anger—
    the club in their hands is my fury!^(A)

²⁰ You are my war club, my weapon of battle:
with you I smash nations;
    with you I destroy kingdoms;^(A)
21 with you I smash the horse and its rider;
    with you I smash the chariot and the charioteer;
²² with you I smash man and woman;
    with you I smash the old man and the boy;
with you I smash the young man and the girl;^(B)
23     with you I smash shepherds and their flocks;
with you I smash farmers and their teams;
    with you I smash governors and deputies.

¹⁴ You shall see, and your heart shall rejoice;
    your bodies^[a] shall flourish like the grass,
and it shall be known that the power of the Lord is with his servants,
    and his indignation is against his enemies.^(A)

²⁵ I will break the Assyrian in my land
    and on my mountains trample him under foot;
his yoke shall be removed from them
    and his burden from their shoulders.^(A)

⁵ The Lord has broken the staff of the wicked,
    the scepter of rulers,
⁶ that struck down the peoples in wrath
    with unceasing blows,
that ruled the nations in anger
    with unrelenting persecution.^(A)

⁵ They come from a distant land,
    from the end of the heavens,
the Lord and the weapons of his indignation,
    to destroy the whole earth.^(A)