Out of that land he came to Assyria, and built Nineveh, and the city Rehoboth Ir, and Calah,

Shall the ax glorify itself without him that chops with it? Or shall the saw lift itself up without him that uses it, as if one should lift a rod or staff? But it shall not be so;

For before the child shall know [how] to call [his] father or [his] mother, [one] shall take the power of Damascus and the spoils of Samaria before the king of the Assyrians.

The Lord has broken the yoke of sinners, [and] the yoke of princes.

Having smitten a nation in wrath with an incurable plague, smiting a nation with a wrathful plague, which spared [them] not, he rested in quiet.

because of the enemies of Your hand. O Lord, destroy them from the earth; scatter them in their life, though their belly has been filled with Your hidden [treasures]; they have been satisfied with uncleanness, and have left the remnant [of their possessions] to their babes.

For the Lord will not allow the rod of sinners to be upon the lot of the righteous; lest the righteous should stretch forth their hands to iniquity.

You scatter for Me the weapons of war, and I will scatter nations by you, and will destroy kings by means of you.

And by you I will scatter youth and maid; and by you I will scatter man and woman.

And I will recompense to Babylon and to all the Chaldeans that dwell [there] all the evil that they have done to Zion before your eyes, says the Lord.