Isaiah 10:12-19

12So it will be that when the Lord has completed all His 1work on Mount Zion and on Jerusalem, He will say, “I will 2punish the fruit of the arrogant heart of the king of Assyria and 3the arrogant pride of his eyes.” 13For 4he has said, “By the power of my hand and by my wisdom I did this, Because I have understanding; And I 5removed the boundaries of the peoples And plundered their treasures, And like a powerful man I brought down 6their inhabitants,14And my hand reached to the riches of the peoples like a 7nest, And as one gathers abandoned eggs, I gathered all the earth; And there was not one that flapped its wing, opened its beak, or chirped.”

15Is the 8axe to 9boast itself over the one who chops with it? Is the saw to exalt itself over the one who wields it? That would be like 10a 11club wielding those who lift it, Or like 12a rod lifting the one who is not wood.16Therefore the Lord, the 13God of armies, will send a 14wasting disease among his 15stout warriors; And under his 16glory a fire will be kindled like a burning flame.17And the 17Light of Israel will become a fire and 18Israel’s 19Holy One a flame, And it will 20burn and devour 21his thorns and his briars in a single day.18And He will 22destroy the glory of his forest and of his fruitful garden, both soul and body, And it will be as when a sick person wastes away.19And the 23rest of the trees of his forest will be so small in number That a child could write them down.