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George Haydock's Catholic Commentary

Isaiah 10:14

Nest. Some put these words in the mouth of God. (Tertullian) (Abdias 4.) --- But they shew the insolence of Sennacherib.

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See also Isaiah 10:14 in other biblical comments:

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    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 tre...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 10 The Assyrian, His invasion of Immanuel's land, and His end 1. _The first four verses belong to the preceding chapter. A description of the Assyrian enemy (Isaiah 10:5)_ 2. _The overthrow o...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    ASSYRIA'S BOASTFULNESS AND ITS PUNISHMENT. This prophecy, so far as it is Isaiah's, must be later than the capture of Carchemish in 717 and before Sennacherib's invasion in 701. Narrower limits cannot...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    FOUND AS. NEST. Supply the Ellipsis thus: "found [means to reach] as. nest". peeped. See note on Isaiah 8:19....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The second imaginary speech of the king of Assyria. He ascribes his successes (and how easy have they been! Isaiah 10:14) solely to his own power and wisdom. Comp. the self-glorification of the prince...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The magnificent simile represents the ease with which the Assyrians had rifled the countries of their treasures, and the panic terror which their approach everywhere produced. _or peeped_ R.V. CHIRPE...

  • Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

    DISCOURSE: 874 PRIDE AND DOWNFALL OF THE ASSYRIAN MONARCH Isaiah 10:12. It shall come to pass, that, when the Lord hath performed his whole work upon Mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will punish the fru...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    FOR HE SAITH, &C.— From these to the 20th verse we have a more full exposition and confirmation of what had gone before; particularly, the pride of the Assyrian, and his vain boasting joined with it—i...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    SMITING OF THE SCOURGE TEXT: Isaiah 10:12-19 12 Wherefore it shall come to pass, that, when the Lord hath performed his whole work upon mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the s...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    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 peep...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    The helplessness of the world before the Assyrians is vividly imaged. LEFT] RV 'forsaken.' PEEPED] RV 'chirped': cp. Isaiah 8:19....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    5. AND THE STAFF IN THEIR HAND] RV 'the staff in whose hand': Jehovah speaks, declaring the Assyrian the minister of His wrath....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS GOD’S PLANS FOR JUDAH, ASSYRIA AND EGYPT ISAIAH CHAPTER S 10 TO 20 _NORMAN HILLYER_ CHAPTER 10 GOD’S JUDGEMENT AGAINST EVIL LAWS V1 *Woe to those who make crue...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    To *seize the wealth of the nations also means that they cannot buy more arms to defend themselves. The king is like someone who takes eggs from a nest. This picture in words means that the king preve...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    MY HAND HATH FOUND AS A NEST. — The inscription of Sargon presents an almost verbal parallelism (_Records of the Past, vii._ 28). In other documents the king looks on himself as a colossal fowler, and...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וַ תִּמְצָ֨א כַ † קֵּ֤ן ׀ יָדִי֙ לְ...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    CHAPTER IX ATHEISM OF FORCE AND ATHEISM OF FEAR ABOUT 721 B.C. Isaiah 10:5 IN chapter 28 Isaiah, speaking in the year 725 when Salmanassar IV was marching on Samaria, had explained to the politicia...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    THE MIGHTY LAID LOW Isaiah 10:5-19 This question is addressed to the Assyrian invader, described as God's staff and rod. He was the means of inflicting deserved penalty on the world of that age, and...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    This is a prophecy of judgment on Assyria, and is full of interest. Assyria is the power which Jehovah is using for the punishment of His people, but because it fails to understand its true relation t...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    I pray the Reader to remark with me, how the Lord taketh to himself the whole of the destruction of Judah. If the Assyrian destroy the kingdom, it is because the Lord hath commissioned and appointed i...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    14._And my hand hath found as a nest. _He adds, that it cost him no trouble to vanquish kings and amass their wealth; and he illustrates this by a comparison. As if one were to seek _a nest and find o...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 9:8-21, 10, 11, AND 12. In Isaiah 9:8 the Spirit, having given the great leading facts as to Messiah, Immanuel, resumes the general history of Israel without...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole 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 u...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    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 pee...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _For he saith_, &c. “From hence to the twentieth verse we have a more full exposition and confirmation of what had gone before, particularly the pride of the Assyrian and his vain boasting in these ve...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    and my hand hath found as a nest the riches of the people, locating them with an experienced hand; AND AS ONE GATHERETH EGGS THAT ARE LEFT, forsaken by the mother bird, HAVE I GATHERED ALL THE EARTH,...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    WOE AGAINST ASSYRIA...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    5-19 See what a change sin made. The king of Assyria, in his pride, thought to act by his own will. The tyrants of the world are tools of Providence. God designs to correct his people for their hypoc...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    HATH FOUND AS A NEST; as one findeth young birds in a nest, the nest being put for the birds in it, as DEUTERONOMY 32:11. No less easily do I both find and take them. EGGS THAT ARE LEFT; which the dam...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Isaiah 10:14 hand H3027 found H4672 (H8799) nest H7064 riches H2428 people H5971 gathers H622 (H8800) eggs...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    CHAPTER ISAIAH 10:5 ASSYRIA WILL ADVANCE AND CONQUER AS A JUDGMENT ON GOD'S PEOPLE BUT WILL FINALLY BE BROUGHT DOWN, FOR FINAL DELIVERANCE IS CERTAIN. In the remainder of this chapter is described God...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    1). GOD FIRST CALLS ON HIS SELECTED INSTRUMENT TO ACT BUT THEN REBUKES HIM FOR OVERREACTING (ISAIAH 10:5). In this vivid illustration Assyria is depicted as being the rod of God's anger. Assyria migh...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: The commission to invade Judah and its execution. Threatening of the invaders ruin after serving God's purpose. New encouragement given to God's people. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: God som...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    The first four verses, are properly a part of the preseding chapter, and contain a severe reproof of the magistrates who wrested the judgment of the poor and needy. Isaiah 10:5. _Oh Assyrian._ Hebrews...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _And my hand hath found as a nest the riches of the people_ A PROUD BOAST OF UTTER SUBJUGATION The Assyrian conqueror has gathered all the earth as one gathers the eggs from which he has first drive...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _O Assyrian_ “O ASSYRIAN” “Ho Asshur,” the name both of the people and its national god. (_Prof. J. Skinner, D. D._) THE JUDGMENT OF THE WORLD POWER The leading idea of the passage is the contrast...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    MAN PROPOSES, GOD DISPOSES Isaiah 10:7. _Howbeit He meaneth not so, &c._ “Man appoints, but God disappoints,” “Man proposes, but God disposes,” are proverbs which sum up a good deal of human experien...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    THE ASSYRIAN INVASION OF JUDAH Isaiah 10:5. _O Assyrian, the rod of Mine anger, &c._ This prophecy may be used to illustrate the following truths of abiding interest. I. THE POWER OF EMPIRES AND THE...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION ISAIAH 10:1 The prophecy begun in Isaiah 9:8 terminates with this stanza, which contains a warning against injustice and oppression, addressed to Israel and Judah equally, and accompanied...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and that write grievousness which they have prescribed; To turn aside the needy from judgment, and to take away the right from the poor of my people, tha...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Habakkuk 2:5; Hosea 12:7; Hosea 12:8; Isaiah 5:8; Job 31:25;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Eggs — Which the dam left in her nest. Gathered — All the riches of the earth. An hyperbole not unusual in the mouths of such persons. Peeped — As birds do, which, when they see the robbing of their n...

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