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I send it to fight against a nation that is separated from God.
    I am angry with those people.
    So I command Assyria to fight against them.
Assyria will take their wealth from them.
    Judah will become like dirt for them to walk on in the streets.
But Assyria’s king doesn’t understand that I am using him.
    He doesn’t know he is a tool for me.
He only wants to destroy other people.
    He plans to destroy many nations.
The king of Assyria says to himself,
    ‘All of my commanders are like kings.

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I send him against a godless(A) nation,
    I dispatch(B) him against a people who anger me,(C)
to seize loot and snatch plunder,(D)
    and to trample(E) them down like mud in the streets.
But this is not what he intends,(F)
    this is not what he has in mind;
his purpose is to destroy,
    to put an end to many nations.
‘Are not my commanders(G) all kings?’ he says.

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