Assyria, the club I use to vent my anger, is as good as dead, ¹  a cudgel with which I angrily punish. ² 

biblegateway Isa 10:5

Woe to Assyria, the rod of My anger And the staff in whose hands is My indignation,

Woe to Assyria, the rod of My anger--the staff in their hands is My wrath.

"How horrible it will be for Assyria! It is the rod of my anger. My fury is the staff in the Assyrians’ hands.

biblegateway Isa 10:5

"Woe to the Assyrian, the rod of my anger, in whose hand is the club of my wrath!

Ah, Assyria, the rod of my anger; the staff in their hands is my fury!

bibleoremus Isa 10:5

Ah, Assyria, the rod of my anger—the club in their hands is my fury!

The Assyrian! He is the rod I wield in my anger, the staff in the hand of my wrath.

biblegateway Isa 10:5

"Woe to Assyria, the rod of My anger And the staff in whose hand is My indignation.

O Assyrian, the rod of mine anger, and the staff in their hand is mine indignation.

biblegateway Isa 10:5

Assyria, the club I use to vent my anger, is as good as dead, ¹  a cudgel with which I angrily punish. ² 

¹ tn Heb “Woe [to] Assyria, the club of my anger.” On הוֹי (hoy, “woe, ah”) see the note on the first phrase of 1:4.

² tn Heb “a cudgel is he, in their hand is my anger.” It seems likely that the final mem (ם) on בְיָדָם (bÿyadam) is not a pronominal suffix (“in their hand”), but an enclitic mem. If so, one can translate literally, “a cudgel is he in the hand of my anger.”