Isaiah 10:14

New International Version

As one reaches into a nest, so my hand reached for the wealth of the nations; as people gather abandoned eggs, so I gathered all the countries; not one flapped a wing, or opened its mouth to chirp.’ ”

Cross References

2 Chronicles 32:13

“Do you not know what I and my predecessors have done to all the peoples of the other lands? Were the gods of those nations ever able to deliver their land from my hand?

Job 31:25

if I have rejoiced over my great wealth, the fortune my hands had gained,

Proverbs 18:12

Before a downfall the heart is haughty, but humility comes before honor.

Isaiah 14:6

which in anger struck down peoples with unceasing blows, and in fury subdued nations with relentless aggression.

Isaiah 37:25

I have dug wells in foreign lands and drunk the water there. With the soles of my feet I have dried up all the streams of Egypt.’

Isaiah 5:8

Woe to you who add house to house and join field to field till no space is left and you live alone in the land.

Jeremiah 49:16

The terror you inspire and the pride of your heart have deceived you, you who live in the clefts of the rocks, who occupy the heights of the hill. Though you build your nest as high as the eagle’s, from there I will bring you down,” declares the Lord.

Ezekiel 35:13

You boasted against me and spoke against me without restraint, and I heard it.

Obadiah 1:4

Though you soar like the eagle and make your nest among the stars, from there I will bring you down,” declares the Lord.

Nahum 2:9

Plunder the silver! Plunder the gold! The supply is endless, the wealth from all its treasures!