Isaiah 10:5-12

English Standard Version

⁵ Woe to Assyria, ^(A)the rod of my anger;
    the staff in their hands is my fury!
⁶ Against a ^(B)godless nation I send him,
    and against the people of my wrath I command him,
to take ^(C)spoil and seize plunder,
    and to ^(D)tread them down like the mire of the streets.
⁷ But he ^(E)does not so intend,
    and his heart does not so think;
but it is in his heart to destroy,
    and to cut off nations not a few;
⁸ for he says:
^(F)“Are not my commanders all kings?
^9 (G)Is not ^(H)Calno like ^(I)Carchemish?
    Is not ^(J)Hamath like ^(K)Arpad?
    ^(L)Is not ^(M)Samaria like Damascus?
¹⁰ As my hand has reached to ^(N)the kingdoms of the idols,
    whose carved images were greater than those of Jerusalem and Samaria,
¹¹ shall I not do to Jerusalem and ^(O)her idols
    ^(P)as I have done to Samaria and her images?”