2. to turn aside the needy from justiceand to take away the right from the poor of My people,that widows may be their prey,and that they may rob the fatherless!
3. And what will you do in the day of punishmentand in the desolation which shall come from afar?To whom will you flee for help,and where will you leave your wealth?
4. Nothing remains but to bow down among the prisoners,and they shall fall among the slain. For all this His anger is not turned away,and His hand is stretched out still.
5. Woe to Assyria, the rod of My angerand the staff in whose hand is My indignation.
6. I will send him against an ungodly nation,and against the people of My wrath I will give him a command,to seize the plunder, to take the prey,and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.
7. However he does not so intend,nor does he plan so in his heart;but his purpose is to destroyand to cut off many nations.
8. For he says, “Are not my princes altogether kings?
9. Is not Kalno as Carchemish?Is not Hamath as Arpad?Is not Samaria as Damascus?
10. As my hand has found the kingdoms of the idolswhose graven images were greater than those of Jerusalem and Samaria,