Isaiah 10:6–14

⁶I will send him against a hypocritical nation, and against the people of my wrath will I give him a charge; to take the spoil, and to seize the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets. ⁷But he meaneth not so, neither doth his heart think so; for it is in his heart to extirpate and cut off nations not a few. ⁸For he saith, Are not my princes all kings? ⁹Is not Calno as Karkemish? Is not Hamath as Arpad? Is not Samaria as Damascus? ¹⁰As my hand hath found the kingdoms of the idols, —and their graven images exceeded those of Jerusalem and Samaria, ¹¹—shall I not, as I have done unto Samaria and her idols, so do to Jerusalem and her images? ¹²And it shall come to pass, when the Lord hath performed his whole work upon mount Zion and upon Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the stoutness of heart of the king of Assyria, and the glory of his high looks. ¹³For he saith, By the strength of my hand I have done it, and by my wisdom, for I am intelligent; and I have removed the bounds of the peoples, and have robbed their treasures, and, like a valiant man, I have brought down them that sit on thrones; ¹⁴and my hand hath found as a nest the riches of the peoples, and as one gathereth forsaken eggs, have I gathered all the earth; and there was none that moved the wing, or opened the mouth, or chirped.