‘It also will be carried to Assyria,

For a present to the great king.

The ignominy of the idol's situation is stressed. It will be carried to Assyria, no doubt on the back of a donkey (compare the Babylonian gods so graphically carried off by Assyria in Isaiah 46:1). And it will be given as a present to the Great King. Such is to be its ignominious fate.

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