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All you can do is bow down in fear among the prisoners.
    All you can do is fall among those who have died in battle.

Even then, the Lord is still angry.
    His hand is still raised against them.

The Lord Will Judge Assyria

The Lord says, “How terrible it will be for the people of Assyria!
    They are the war club that carries out my anger.
I will send them against the ungodly nation of Judah.
    I will order them to fight against my own people.
    My people make me angry.
I will order Assyria to take their goods and carry them away.
    I will order Assyria to walk on my people
    as if they were walking on mud.

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Nothing will remain but to cringe among the captives(A)
    or fall among the slain.(B)

Yet for all this, his anger is not turned away,(C)
    his hand is still upraised.

God’s Judgment on Assyria

“Woe(D) to the Assyrian,(E) the rod(F) of my anger,
    in whose hand is the club(G) of my wrath!(H)
I send him against a godless(I) nation,
    I dispatch(J) him against a people who anger me,(K)
to seize loot and snatch plunder,(L)
    and to trample(M) them down like mud in the streets.

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