Parallel Verses

Julia Smith Translation

Wo to Assur the rod of mine anger, and that rod in their hand, my wrath.

New American Standard Bible

Woe to Assyria, the rod of My anger
And the staff in whose hands is My indignation,

King James Version

O Assyrian, the rod of mine anger, and the staff in their hand is mine indignation.

Holman Bible

Woe to Assyria, the rod of My anger—
the staff in their hands is My wrath.

International Standard Version

"How terrible it will be for Assyria, the rod of my anger! The club is in their hands!

A Conservative Version

Ho, Assyrian, the rod of my anger, the staff in whose hand is my indignation!

American Standard Version

Ho Assyrian, the rod of mine anger, the staff in whose hand is mine indignation!

Amplified


Woe to Assyria, the rod of My anger [against Israel],
The staff in whose hand is My indignation and fury [against Israel’s disobedience]!

Bible in Basic English

Ho! Assyrian, the rod of my wrath, the instrument of my punishment!

Darby Translation

Ah! the Assyrian! the rod of mine anger! and the staff in their hand is mine indignation.

King James 2000

O Assyria, the rod of my anger, the staff in their hand is my indignation.

Lexham Expanded Bible

Ah! Assyria, the rod of my anger, and a staff is in their hand: my wrath!

Modern King James verseion

Woe to Assyria, the rod of My anger! And the staff in their hand is My fury.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Woe be also unto Assyria, which is a staff of my wrath, in whose hand is the rod of my punishment.

NET Bible

Assyria, the club I use to vent my anger, is as good as dead, a cudgel with which I angrily punish.

New Heart English Bible

Alas Assyrian, the rod of my anger, the staff in whose hand is my indignation.

The Emphasized Bible

Alas! for Assyria, the rod of mine anger, - Yea, the very staff in their hand, is, my displeasure:

Webster

O Assyrian, the rod of my anger, and the staff in their hand is my indignation.

World English Bible

Alas Assyrian, the rod of my anger, the staff in whose hand is my indignation!

Youngs Literal Translation

Woe to Asshur, a rod of Mine anger, And a staff in their hand is Mine indignation.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
O
הוי 
Howy 
woe, Ah, Ho, O, Alas
Usage: 50

אשּׁר אשּׁוּר 
'Ashshuwr 
Usage: 152

the rod
שׁבט 
Shebet 
Usage: 190

and the staff
מטּה מטּה 
Matteh 
Usage: 251

in their hand
יד 
Yad 
Usage: 1612

Context Readings

Judgment On Assyria's Arrogance

4 Not to bow under the bound, and they shall fell under the slain; in all this his anger turned not back, and yet his hand stretched out 5 Wo to Assur the rod of mine anger, and that rod in their hand, my wrath. 6 Against a polluted nation will I send him, and upon a people of my outpouring will I command him to spoil a spoil and to plunder a plunder, and to set them a treading down as the clay of the streets.


Cross References

Genesis 10:11

From that land shall come forth Asshur, and shall build Nineveh, and the city Reheboth, and Calah,

Psalm 17:14

From men of thy hand, O Jehovah, from men of this world their portion in life, and thou wilt fill their belly with thy hidden things: they will be filled with sons, they left the remaining things to their children.

Psalm 125:3

For the rod of the unjust one shall not rest upon the lot of the just; so that the just shall not stretch forth their hand in iniquity.

Isaiah 8:4

For before the boy shall know to call, My father and my mother, he shall lift up the strength of Damascus and the spoil of Shomeron before the king of Assur.

Isaiah 10:15

Shall the axe vaunt itself against him hewing with it? shall the saw magnify itself against him moving it up and down? as the rod moving up and down with those lifting it up; as the lifting up of the rod not wood.

Isaiah 13:5

Coming from a land from afar, from the extremity of the heavens, Jehovah and the vessels of his wrath to overthrow all the earth.

Isaiah 14:5-6

Jehovah broke in pieces the rod of the unjust, the rod of the rulers.

Isaiah 14:25

To break Assur in my land, and upon my mountain I will tread him down: and his yoke was removed from off them, and his burden shall remove from off their shoulder.

Isaiah 30:30

And Jehovah caused the swelling of his voice to be heard, and he will cause the letting down of his arm to be seen in the anger of his wrath, and the flame of a consuming fire, violent rain and tempest, and the stone of hail,

Isaiah 66:14

And ye saw, and your heart rejoiced, and your bones shall break forth as the tender grass: and the hand of Jehovah was known with his servants, and his wrath to his enemies.

Jeremiah 51:20-24

Thou a mallet to me, a weapon of war: and I broke the nations in pieces with thee, and I destroyed kingdoms with thee;

Zephaniah 2:13

And he will stretch out his hand against the north, and he will destroy Assur; and he will set Nineveh for a desolation, a dryness as the desert

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