Isaiah 10:14

And I will shake the inhabited cities: and I will take with my hand all the world as a nest: and I will even take them as eggs that have been left; and there is none that shall escape me, or contradict me.

Updated Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

And my hand hath found as a nest the riches of the people: and as one gathereth eggs that are left, have I gathered all the earth; and there was none that moved the wing, or opened the mouth, or peeped.

In Context

13For he said, I will act in strength, and in the wisdom of my understanding I will remove the boundaries of nations, and will spoil their strength.

15Shall the axe glorify itself without him that hews with it? or shall the saw lift up itself without him that uses it, as if one should lift a rod or staff? but it shall not be so;

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Cross References

Job 31:25And if too I rejoiced when my wealth was abundant, 1 And if too I laid my hand on innumerable treasures 1

Proverbs 21:6He that gathers treasures with a lying tongue 1 Pursues vanity on to the snares of death. 1

Isaiah 37:25and I have made a bridge, and dried up the waters, and every pool of water.

Hosea 12:7Thou therefore shalt return to thy God: keep thou mercy and judgment, and draw nigh to thy God continually.

Nahum 2:9And as for Nineveh, her waters shall be as a pool of water: and they fled, and stayed not, and there was none to look back.

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 10:6-20

The Pride of the King of Assyria; Sennacherib's Pride Rebuked; Destruction of the King of Assyria. ( b. c. 740.) 5 O Assyrian, the rod of mine anger, and the staff in their hand is mine indignation. 6 I will send him against a 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. 7 Howbeit he meaneth not so, neither doth his heart think so; but it is in his heart to destroy and cut off nations… Read the whole commentary →

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