For he has said: By the strength of my hand I have done it, and by my wisdom, for I have understanding—Assyria's attribution of its success to its own strength and wisdom rather than recognition that it operates as God's instrument. The refusal to acknowledge dependence on God and the insistence on self-sufficiency represent the spiritual disease from which Assyrian judgment flows. This verse explains why Assyria, though serving God's purposes, itself stands under condemnation: it mistakes its power for autonomy.

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