⁷ But this is not what he intends, this is not what he has in mind; his purpose is to destroy, to put an end to many nations.

⁷ But the king of Assyria will not understand that he is my tool; his mind does not work that way. His plan is simply to destroy, to cut down nation after nation.

⁷ But he meaneth not so, neither doth his heart think so; for it is in his heart to extirpate and cut off nations not a few.