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The rod and the ambition. ORACLE OF JUDGMENT | Assyria is called a rod of anger, yet pursues its own ambition to destroy nations. The marching force interprets the threat and the boast.
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Isaiah 10:5-11

The rod and the ambition

The Proud Brought Low · Isaiah 10

Story guide: ORACLE OF JUDGMENT | Assyria is called a rod of anger, yet pursues its own ambition to destroy nations. The marching force interprets the threat and the boast.

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5Woe to Assyria, the rod of my anger; the staff in their hand is my wrath.

6Against a godless nation I send him, and against the people of my wrath I command him, to seize spoil and to carry off plunder, and to make it a trampling place like the mud of the streets.

7But he does not think so, and his heart does not reckon so; for it is in his heart to destroy, and to cut off not a few nations.

8For he says, “Are not my commanders all kings?”

9Is not Calno like Carchemish? Is not Hamath like Arpad? Is not Samaria like Damascus?

10As my hand has reached the kingdoms of the idols, whose carved images were greater than those of Jerusalem and Samaria,

11shall I not do to Jerusalem and her idols just as I did to Samaria and her idols?

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