Isaiah 10:14

The Holy Bible, Berean Study Bible

Contextual Overview

⁵Woe to Assyria, the rod of My anger; the staff in their hands is My wrath. ⁶I will send him against a godless nation; I will dispatch him against a people destined for My rage, to take spoils and seize plunder, and to trample them down like clay in the streets. ⁷But this is not what he intends; this is not what he plans. His purpose is to destroy and cut off many nations. ⁸"Are not all my commanders kings?" he says. ⁹"Is not Calno like Carchemish? Is not Hamath like Arpad? Is not Samaria like Damascus? ¹⁰As my hand seized the idolatrous kingdoms, whose images surpassed those of Jerusalem and Samaria, ¹¹and as I have done to Samaria and its idols, will I not also do to Jerusalem and her idols?" ¹²So when the Lord has completed all His work against Mount Zion and Jerusalem, He will say, "I will punish the king of Assyria for the fruit of his arrogant heart and the proud look in his eyes." ¹³For he says: "By the strength of my hand I have done this, and by my wisdom, for I am clever. I have removed the boundaries of nations and plundered their treasures; like a mighty one I subdued their rulers. ¹⁴My hand reached as into a nest to seize the wealth of the nations. Like one gathering abandoned eggs, I gathered all the earth. No wing fluttered, no beak opened or chirped."

Bible Verse Review
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And my: Isaiah 5:8, Job 31:25, Proverbs 18:12, Proverbs 21:6, Proverbs 21:7, Hosea 12:7, Hosea 12:8, Nahum 2:9-13, Nahum 3:1, Habakkuk 2:5-11

peeped: That is, chirped, from the Latin pipio. We still use the term pipe to express the note of the bullfinch.

Reciprocal: 2 Samuel 17:12 - we will light 1 Kings 20:3 - General 1 Kings 20:10 - if the dust 2 Kings 3:23 - now therefore 2 Kings 18:23 - I will deliver 2 Kings 19:23 - With the multitude 2 Chronicles 32:13 - I and my Psalms 9:6 - thou hast Psalms 37:7 - the man Psalms 44:10 - spoil Psalms 124:6 - who hath not Proverbs 1:13 - General Proverbs 28:11 - rich Isaiah 10:6 - will I give Isaiah 10:10 - the kingdoms Isaiah 15:7 - the abundance Isaiah 31:5 - birds Isaiah 33:3 - General Isaiah 33:8 - he regardeth Isaiah 36:8 - and I Isaiah 37:24 - By the Ezekiel 29:3 - My river Daniel 8:4 - but Obadiah 1:3 - pride Obadiah 1:6 - are the

Cross-References

Deuteronomy 2:23
And the Avvim, who lived in villages as far as Gaza, were destroyed by the Caphtorites, who came out of Caphtor and settled in their place.)

1 Chronicles 1:12
the Pathrusites, the Casluhites (from whom the Philistines descended), and the Caphtorites.

Isaiah 11:11
On that day the Lord will extend His hand a second time to recover the remnant of His people from Assyria, from Egypt, from Pathros, from Cush, from Elam, from Shinar, from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea.

Jeremiah 44:1
This is the word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the Jews living in the land of Egypt-in Migdol, Tahpanhes, and Memphis-and in the land of Pathros:

Jeremiah 47:4
For the day has come to destroy all the Philistines, to cut off from Tyre and Sidon every remaining ally. Indeed, the LORD is about to destroy the Philistines, the remnant from the coasts of Caphtor.

Amos 9:7
"Are you not like the Cushites to Me, O children of Israel?" declares the LORD. "Did I not bring Israel up from the land of Egypt, the Philistines from Caphtor, and the Arameans from Kir?

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And my hand hath found as a nest the riches of the people,.... With that ease as a man finds a nest of birds, and takes them:

and as one gathereth eggs [that are] left; by the bird, who not sitting upon them, there is none to protect them; whereas, when they are sat upon by the bird, she will flutter with her wings, and strike with her bill, and preserve them as well as she can:

have I gathered all the earth; the kingdoms and inhabitants of it, there being none to resist, or that dared to do it, as follows:

and there was none that moved the wing; as a bird will do, when its young or eggs are taken away from it:

or opened the mouth, or peeped; chattered, clucked, or expressed any grief, uneasiness, or resentment; the Targum is,

"that opened his mouth, and spoke a word.''

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And my hand hath found, as a nest - By a beautiful and striking figure here, the Assyrian monarch is represented as describing the ease with which he had subdued kingdoms, and rifled them of their treasures. No resistance had been offered. He had taken them with as little opposition as a rustic takes possession of a nest, with its eggs or young, when the parent bird is away.

Eggs that are left - That is, eggs that are left of the parent bird; when the bird from fright, or any other cause, has gone, and when no resistance is offered.

Have I gathered all the earth - That is, I have subdued and plundered it. This shows the height of his self-confidence and his arrogant assumptions.

That moved the wing - Keeping up the figure of the nest. There was none that offered resistance; as an angry bird does when her nest is about to be robbed.

Or opened the mouth - To make a noise in alarm. The dread of him produced perfect silence and submission.

Or peeped - Or that chirped - the noise made by young birds; the note at Isaiah 8:19. The idea is, that such was the dread of his name and power that there was universal silence. None dared to resist the terror of his arms.