Isaiah 10:14 meaning and explanation

My 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.’”

Isaiah 10:14, Berean Standard Bible

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These are the words of Assyria's king, quoted by Isaiah in an oracle against that empire. Assyria served as God's instrument to judge a godless nation, but the king boasts that the conquests were entirely his own doing.

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