Isaiah 10:8-15

8For it says, “Are not my princes 1all kings?9Is not 2Calno like 3Carchemish, Or 4Hamath like Arpad, Or 5Samaria like 6Damascus?10As my hand has reached to the 7kingdoms of the idols, Whose graven images were greater than those of Jerusalem and Samaria,11Shall I not 8do to Jerusalem and her images Just as I have done to Samaria and 9her idols?”

12So it will be that when the Lord has completed all His 10work on Mount Zion and on Jerusalem, He will say, “I will 11punish the fruit of the arrogant heart of the king of Assyria and 12the pomp of 13his haughtiness.” 13For 14he has said, “By the power of my hand and by my wisdom I did this, For I have understanding; And I 15removed the boundaries of the peoples And plundered their treasures, And like a mighty man I brought down 16their inhabitants,14And my hand reached to the riches of the peoples like a 17nest, And as one gathers abandoned eggs, I gathered all the earth; And there was not one that flapped its wing or opened its beak or chirped.”

15Is the 18axe to 19boast itself over the one who chops with it? Is the saw to exalt itself over the one who wields it? That would be like 20a 21club wielding those who lift it, Or like 22a rod lifting him who is not wood.