2 Kings 19:25

25 “Have you not heard
that aI determined it long ago?
I planned from days of old
what bnow I bring to pass,
that you should turn fortified cities
into heaps of ruins,

Isaiah 10:5-7

Judgment on Arrogant Assyria

5 Woe to Assyria, cthe rod of my anger;
the staff in their hands is my fury!
6Against a dgodless nation I send him,
and against the people of my wrath I command him,
to take espoil and seize plunder,
and to ftread them down like the mire of the streets.
7But he gdoes not so intend,
and his heart does not so think;
but it is in his heart to destroy,
and to cut off nations not a few;
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