What will you do on the day of reckoning,
    when disaster comes from afar?
To whom will you run for help?
    Where will you leave your riches?
Nothing will remain but to cringe among the captives
    or fall among the slain.

Yet for all this, his anger is not turned away,
    his hand is still upraised.

God’s judgment on Assyria

‘Woe to the Assyrian, the rod of my anger,
    in whose hand is the club of my wrath!

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