⁶ 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.
⁷ But the king of Assyria will not understand that he is my tool;
    his mind does not work that way.
His plan is simply to destroy,
    to cut down nation after nation.
⁸ He will say,
    ‘Each of my princes will soon be a king.
⁹ We destroyed Calno just as we did Carchemish.
    Hamath fell before us as Arpad did.
    And we destroyed Samaria just as we did Damascus.
¹⁰ Yes, we have finished off many a kingdom
    whose gods were greater than those in Jerusalem and Samaria.
¹¹ So we will defeat Jerusalem and her gods,
    just as we destroyed Samaria with hers.’”