• Isaiah 10:5, 6
    New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures

    •  5 “Aha! the As·syrʹi·an,+

      The rod to express my anger+

      And the staff in their hand for my denunciation!

       6 I will send him against an apostate nation,+

      Against the people who infuriated me;

      I will command him to take much spoil and much plunder

      And to trample them like mud in the streets.+

  • Hosea 10:14, 15
    New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures

    • 14 An uproar will rise against your people,

      And your fortified cities will all be devastated,+

      Like the devastation by Shalʹman of the house of Arʹbel,

      In the day of battle when mothers were dashed to pieces alongside their children.

      15 This is what will be done to you, O Bethʹel,+ because of your utter wickedness.

      At dawn the king of Israel will surely be done away with.”*+