10:5 Assyria, the club I use to vent my anger, is as good as dead, 1
a cudgel with which I angrily punish. 2
10:6 I sent him 3 against a godless 4 nation,
I ordered him to attack the people with whom I was angry, 5
to take plunder and to carry away loot,
to trample them down 6 like dirt in the streets.
13:5 They come from a distant land,
from the horizon. 7
It is the Lord with his instruments of judgment, 8
coming to destroy the whole earth. 9
1:12 Lord, you have been active from ancient times; 10
my sovereign God, 11 you are immortal. 12
Lord, you have made them 13 your instrument of judgment. 14
Protector, 15 you have appointed them as your instrument of punishment. 16