Isaiah 10:13-15

Tree of Life Version

“By the strength of my own hand I’ve done it,
    and my own wisdom,
    for I am shrewd!
I abolished the borders of peoples,
    and plundered their treasures.
As a mighty one I cast down inhabitants.
¹⁴ My hand found the riches of the peoples as a nest—
like gathering forsaken eggs,
I have gathered the entire earth.
Not a wing fluttered,
    not a beak opened or chirped!”

¹⁵ Should the axe boast against the One who chops with it?
Should the saw magnify itself against the One who wields it?
It would be like a rod waving the One who lifts it,
or like a staff hoisting up the One who is not wood!