Isaiah 10:5-7

New International Reader's Version

⁵ The Lord says, “How terrible it will be for the people of Assyria!
    They are the war club that carries out my anger.
⁶ 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.
⁷ But that is not what the king of Assyria plans.
    It is not what he has in mind.
His purpose is to destroy many nations.
    His purpose is to put an end to them.