Isaiah 10:5-11

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;
⁸ for he says:
“Are not my commanders all kings?
⁹ Is not Calno like Car′chemish?
    Is not Hamath like Arpad?
    Is not Samar′ia like Damascus?
¹⁰ As my hand has reached to the kingdoms of the idols
    whose graven images were greater than those of Jerusalem and Samar′ia,
¹¹ shall I not do to Jerusalem and her idols
    as I have done to Samar′ia and her images?”