Isaiah 10:7
King James Version
“Howbeit he meaneth not so, neither doth his heart think so; but in his heart to destroy and cut off nations not a few.”
Context
4Without me they shall bow down under the prisoners, and they shall fall under the slain. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand stretched out still.
5O Assyrian, the rod of mine anger, and the staff in their hand is mine indignation.
6I will send him against an hypocritical nation, and against the people of my wrath will I give him a charge, to take the spoil, and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.
7Howbeit he meaneth not so, neither doth his heart think so; but in his heart to destroy and cut off nations not a few.
8For he saith, not my princes altogether kings?
9not Calno as Carchemish? not Hamath as Arpad? not Samaria as Damascus?
10As my hand hath found the kingdoms of the idols, and whose graven images did excel them of Jerusalem and of Samaria;