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12 His troops advance.
    They build up roads to attack me.
    They camp all around my tent.

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12 These outcasts oppose me to my face.
    They send me sprawling
    and lay traps in my path.

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13     and now his archers surround me.
His arrows pierce me without mercy.
    The ground is wet with my blood.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. 16:13 Hebrew my gall.

23 Instead, I will hand that cup to your tormentors,
    those who said, ‘We will trample you into the dust
    and walk on your backs.’”

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Judgment against Assyria

“What sorrow awaits Assyria, the rod of my anger.
    I use it as a club to express my anger.
I am sending Assyria against a godless nation,
    against a people with whom I am angry.
Assyria will plunder them,
    trampling them like dirt beneath its feet.

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11 God has handed me over to sinners.
    He has tossed me into the hands of the wicked.

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