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What will you do on the day of punishment,
when calamity comes from afar?
To whom will you flee for help?
Where will you leave your wealth,
so as not to squat among the prisoners
or fall among the slain?

Even after all this, his anger remains,
his upraised hand still threatens.

“Oh Ashur, the rod expressing my anger!
The club in their hands is my fury!

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What will you do on the day of reckoning,(A)
    when disaster(B) comes from afar?
To whom will you run for help?(C)
    Where will you leave your riches?
Nothing will remain but to cringe among the captives(D)
    or fall among the slain.(E)

Yet for all this, his anger is not turned away,(F)
    his hand is still upraised.

God’s Judgment on Assyria

“Woe(G) to the Assyrian,(H) the rod(I) of my anger,
    in whose hand is the club(J) of my wrath!(K)

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