⁶ I will send him against a godless nation;
I will command him to go
against a people destined for my rage,
to take spoils, to plunder,^(A)
and to trample them down like clay^(B) in the streets.

²⁰ You will not join them in burial,
because you destroyed your land
and slaughtered your own people.
The offspring of evildoers
will never be mentioned again.^(A)

² But he also is wise and brings disaster.^(A)
He does not go back on what he says;^(B)
he will rise up against the house of the wicked
and against the allies of evildoers.

⁶ For a fool speaks foolishness
and his mind plots iniquity.
He lives in a godless way
and speaks falsely about the Lord.
He leaves the hungry empty
and deprives the thirsty of drink.^(A)