Study it in the app“Against a godless nation I send it, and against the people of my fury I command it, to take spoil and to seize plunder, and to make it a thing trampled like the mud of the streets.”
God uses Assyria as a rod, but Assyria does not see it that wayProvidence
Against a godlessחָנֵףnationבְּגוֹיI send it,אֲשַׁלְּחֶנּוּand against the peopleוְעַל עַםof my furyעֶבְרָתִיI command it,אֲצַוֶּנּוּto takeלִשְׁלֹלspoilשָׁלָלand to seizeוְלָבֹזplunder,בַּזand to make itוּלְשׂוּמוֹa thing trampledמִרְמָסlike the mudכְּחֹמֶרof the streets.חוּצוֹת
godless, profane
Godless: one who lives without regard for God; defiled, profane.
Where else “chanef” appearsnation
A people with their land; also Israel.
Where else “goy” appearssend
To send someone or something.
Where else “ashalche” appearscrowd
The people gathered in a place: the crowd, or the troops that go out to war.
Where else “am” appearsfury
Overflowing rage, fury.
Where else “evrati” appearscommand
To give an order: "as YHWH had commanded".
Where else “atsave” appearsplunder
To strip the defeated of their goods.
Where else “shelol” appearsspoil, plunder
Spoil: what is taken from a defeated enemy.
Where else “shalal” appearsplunder
Plunder, take spoil.
Where else “voz” appearsplunder, booty
Plunder: what the victor carries off from the defeated.
Where else “baz” appearsmake
To turn something into another: "I will turn him into a nation".
Where else “sum” appearstrampling, trampled ground
Trampling; what is trodden down underfoot.
Where else “mirmas” appearsclay
Wet earth, the potter's dough, or mire.
Where else “chomer” appearsstreet
The ways and squares between the houses, where people go about.
Where else “chutsot” appears5Woe to Assyria, the rod of my anger! And the staff in their hand is my indignation.
6 · This verse (above)
7But he does not imagine it so, and his heart does not plan so; for to destroy is in his heart, and to cut off nations not a few.
