Isaiah 10:14

New American Bible - revised edition

My hand has seized, like a nest, the wealth of nations. As one takes eggs left alone, so I took in all the earth; No one fluttered a wing, or opened a mouth, or chirped!”

Cross References

2 Chronicles 32:13

Do you not know what my fathers and I have done to all the peoples of other lands? Were the gods of the nations in those lands able to rescue their lands from my hand?

Job 31:25

Or had I rejoiced that my wealth was great, or that my hand had acquired abundance—

Proverbs 18:12

Before disaster the heart is haughty, but before honor is humility.

Isaiah 14:6

That struck the peoples in wrath with relentless blows; That ruled the nations in anger, with boundless persecution.

Isaiah 37:25

I myself dug wells and drank foreign water; Drying up all the rivers of Egypt beneath the soles of my feet.’

Isaiah 5:8

Ah! Those who join house to house, who connect field with field, Until no space remains, and you alone dwell in the midst of the land!

Jeremiah 49:16

The terror you spread, the pride of your heart, beguiled you. You denizens of rocks and crevices, occupying towering peaks: Though you build your nest high as the eagle, from there I will bring you down—oracle of the Lord.

Ezekiel 35:13

You boasted against me with your mouths and used insolent words against me. I heard everything!

Obadiah 1:4

Though you soar like the eagle, and your nest is set among the stars, From there I will bring you down— oracle of the Lord.

Nahum 2:9

Nineveh is like a pool whose waters escape; “Stop! Stop!” but none turns back.