Parallel Verses

Lexham Expanded Bible

Ah! Assyria, the rod of my anger, and a staff is 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.

Julia Smith Translation

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

King James 2000

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

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 {save that they bow down under the prisoners and fall under the slain}? In all of this his anger has not turned away, and still his hand [is] stretched out. 5 Ah! Assyria, the rod of my anger, and a staff is in their hand: my wrath! 6 I send him against a godless nation, and I command him against the people of my wrath, to capture spoil and to carry off plunder, and to make them a trampling place, like [the] clay of [the] streets.

Cross References

Genesis 10:11

From that land he went out [to] Assyria, and he built Nineveh, Rehoboth-Ir, Calah,

Psalm 17:14

from men by your hand, O Yahweh, from men of [this] world. Their share [is] in {this life}, and you fill their stomach [with] your treasure. They are satisfied [with] children. They bequeath their excess to their children.

Psalm 125:3

For the scepter of wickedness shall not rest on the {land} of the righteous, lest the righteous stretch out their hands to do wickedness.

Isaiah 8:4

For before the boy knows to call 'my father' and 'my mother,' [one] will carry away the wealth of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria in the presence of the king of Assyria."

Isaiah 10:15

Does the ax boast against the one who cuts with it, or the saw magnify itself against [the] one who moves it to and fro? {As if a rod should move the one who lifts it}! {As if a staff should lift up that which is not wood}!

Isaiah 13:5

[They are] coming from a distant land, from the end of the heavens, Yahweh and the weapons of his indignation, to destroy {the whole earth}.

Isaiah 14:5-6

Yahweh has broken [the] staff of [the] wicked, [the] scepter of rulers,

Isaiah 14:25

to break Assyria in my land, and I will trample him down on my mountains; and he shall remove his yoke from them, and he shall remove his burden from his shoulders."

Isaiah 30:30

And Yahweh will cause the majesty of his voice to be heard, and he will cause the descent of his arm to be seen, in furious anger and a flame of devouring fire, [with] a cloudburst and a rainstorm and stones of hail.

Isaiah 66:14

And you shall see and your heart shall rejoice, and your bones shall {flourish} like the grass, and the hand of Yahweh shall make itself known {to} his servants, and he shall curse his enemies.

Jeremiah 51:20-24

[He says], "You [are] a war club for me, a weapon of battle, and I smash nations with you, and I destroy kingdoms with you.

Zephaniah 2:13

And he will stretch out his hand against the north, and he will destroy Assyria and will make Nineveh a desolation, a dry wasteland like the desert.

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