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Isaiah 10:5

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Alas Assyrian, the rod of my anger, the staff in whose hand is my indignation!

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Isaiah 10:5 in other translations

Ho Assyrian, the rod of mine anger, the staff in whose hand is mine indignation!

Isaiah 10:5 · American Standard Version

Isaiah 10:5 in context

  1. 3What will you do in the day of visitation, and in the desolation which will come from afar? To whom will you flee for help? Where will you leave your wealth?
  2. 4They will only bow down under the prisoners,
    and will fall under the slain.
    For all this his anger is not turned away,
    but his hand is stretched out still.
  3. 5Alas Assyrian, the rod of my anger, the staff in whose hand is my indignation!
  4. 6I will send him against a profane nation, and against the people who anger me I will give him a command to take the plunder and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.
  5. 7However he doesn’t mean so, neither does his heart think so; but it is in his heart to destroy, and to cut off not a few nations.