1:9 If the Lord who commands armies
we would have quickly become like Sodom,
we would have become like Gomorrah.
10:5 Assyria, the club I use to vent my anger, is as good as dead,
a cudgel with which I angrily punish.
10:6 I sent him
I ordered him to attack the people with whom I was angry,
to take plunder and to carry away loot,
to trample them down
10:2 to keep the poor from getting fair treatment,
and to deprive
so they can steal what widows own,
and loot what belongs to orphans.
17:1 Here is a message about Damascus:
“Look, Damascus is no longer a city,
it is a heap of ruins!
18:1 The land of buzzing wings is as good as dead,
the one beyond the rivers of Cush,
18:2 that sends messengers by sea,
who glide over the water’s surface in boats made of papyrus.
Go, you swift messengers,
to a nation of tall, smooth-skinned people,
to a people that are feared far and wide,
to a nation strong and victorious,
whose land rivers divide.
28:19 Whenever it sweeps by, it will overtake you;
indeed,
it will come through during the day and the night.”
When this announcement is understood,
it will cause nothing but terror.
9:27 And Isaiah cries out on behalf of Israel, “Though the number of the children