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10.2 :To turn aside the needy from judgment,
 * And to take away the right of the poor of My people,
 * That widows may be their spoil,
 * And that they may make the fatherless their prey!
 * And what will ye do in the day of visitation,
 * And in the ruin which shall come from far?
 * To whom will ye flee for help?
 * And where will ye leave your glory?
 * They can do nought except crouch under the captives,
 * And fall under the slain.
 * For all this His anger is not turned away,
 * But His hand is stretched out still.


 * O Asshur, the rod of Mine anger,
 * In whose hand as a staff is Mine indignation!
 * I do send him against an ungodly nation,
 * And against the people of My wrath do I give him a charge,
 * To take the spoil, and to take the prey,
 * And to tread them down like the mire of the streets.
 * Howbeit he meaneth not so,
 * Neither doth his heart think so;
 * But it is in his heart to destroy,
 * And to cut off nations not a few.
 * For he saith: 'Are not my princes all of them kings?
 * Is not Calno as Carchemish?
 * Is not Hamath as Arpad?
 * Is not Samaria as Damascus?
 * As my hand hath reached the kingdoms of the idols,
 * Whose graven images did exceed them of Jerusalem and of Samaria;
 * Shall I not, as I have done unto Samaria and her idols,
 * So do to Jerusalem and her idols?'

Wherefore it shall come to pass, that when the Lord hath performed His whole work upon mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the arrogant heart of the king of Assyria, and the glory of his haughty looks. For he hath said:


 * By the strength of my hand I have done it,
 * And by my wisdom, for I am prudent;
 * In that I have removed the bounds of the peoples,
 * And have robbed their treasures,
 * And have brought down as one mighty the inhabitants;
 * And my hand hath found as a nest the riches of the peoples;
 * And as one gathereth eggs that are forsaken,
 * Have I gathered all the earth;
 * And there was none that moved the wing,
 * Or that opened mouth, or chirped.


 * Should the axe boast itself against him that heweth therewith?
 * Should the saw magnify itself against him that moveth it?
 * As if a rod should move them that lift it up,
 * Or as if a staff should lift up him that is not wood.
 * Therefore will the Lord, the of hosts,
 * Send among his fat ones leanness;
 * And under his glory there shall be kindled
 * A burning like the burning of fire.
 * And the light of Israel shall be for a fire,
 * And his Holy One for a flame;