Discovery BoxIsaiah 10:6-7 
Context10:6 I sent him 1 against a godless 2 nation,
I ordered him to attack the people with whom I was angry, 3
to take plunder and to carry away loot,
to trample them down 4 like dirt in the streets.
10:7 But he does not agree with this,
his mind does not reason this way, 5
for his goal is to destroy,
and to eliminate many nations. 6
1 sn Throughout this section singular forms are used to refer to Assyria; perhaps the king of Assyria is in view (see v. 12).
2 tn Or “defiled”; cf. ASV “profane”; NAB “impious”; NCV “separated from God.”
3 tn Heb “and against the people of my anger I ordered him.”
4 tn Heb “to make it [i.e., the people] a trampled place.”
5 tn Heb “but he, not so does he intend, and his heart, not so does it think.”
6 tn Heb “for to destroy [is] in his heart, and to cut off nations, not a few.”
