“Hast thou not heard long ago, how I have done it; and of ancient times, that I have formed it? now have I brought it to pass, that thou shouldest be to lay waste defenced cities into ruinous heaps.”
Isaiah asserts that God had already heard and decided these things long ago, and that the Assyrian king is merely acting out what God has already ordained. The assertion inverts the power dynamic: the king who boasts of his accomplishments is merely the instrument of God's will. The oracle establishes that even human pride and rebellion serve the purposes of God.
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