5 “Aha! the As·syrʹi·an,+

The rod to express my anger+

And the staff in their hand for my denunciation!

 6 I will send him against an apostate nation,+

Against the people who infuriated me;

I will command him to take much spoil and much plunder

And to trample them like mud in the streets.+

14 An uproar will rise against your people,

And your fortified cities will all be devastated,+

Like the devastation by Shalʹman of the house of Arʹbel,

In the day of battle when mothers were dashed to pieces alongside their children.