Teks -- Isaiah 10:14 (NET)

10:14 My hand discovered the wealth of the nations, as if it were in a nest, as one gathers up abandoned eggs, I gathered up the whole earth. There was no wing flapping, or open mouth chirping.”

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per frasa)

Wesley: Isa 10:14 - Eggs

Which the dam left in her nest.

Wesley: Isa 10:14 - Gathered

All the riches of the earth. An hyperbole not unusual in the mouths of such persons.

Wesley: Isa 10:14 - Peeped

As birds do, which, when they see the robbing of their nest, express their grief and anger, by hovering about them, and by mournful cries.

JFB: Isa 10:14 - nest

Implying the ease with which he carried off all before him.

JFB: Isa 10:14 - left

By the parent bird.

JFB: Isa 10:14 - none . . . moved . . . wing

Image from an angry bird resisting the robbery of its "nest."

JFB: Isa 10:14 - peeped

Chirped even low (Isa 8:19). No resistance was offered me, of deed, or even word.

Calvin: Isa 10:14 - And my hand hath found as a nest

14.And my hand hath found as a nest He adds, that it cost him no trouble to vanquish kings and amass their wealth; and he illustrates this by a comparison. As if one were to seek a nest and find one deserted by the birds, and consequently to take the eggs without difficulty; for if the parent birds were sitting on the eggs, having an instinctive desire to protect their nest, they would either fly at the robber, and attack him with their bill, or by loud and unpleasant noises endeavor to drive him away. But this tyrant boasts that there was no one who ventured so much as to open the mouth against him, and therefore that he had no difficulty in bringing all the kingdoms under his dominion. Accordingly, he lays claim to all these things, and attributes them to his wisdom, and makes no acknowledgment of the providence of God. These boastful pretensions the Prophet has purposely related as coming from the despot’s own mouth, in order to show that they were so many bellows to kindle the judgment of God; for among men this haughtiness could not be endured, and how would not God restrain it?

TSK: Isa 10:14 - And my // peeped

And my : Isa 5:8; Job 31:25; Pro 18:12, Pro 21:6, Pro 21:7; Hos 12:7, Hos 12:8; Nah 2:9-13, Nah 3:1; Hab 2:5-11

peeped : That is, chirped, from the Latin pipio . We still use the term pipe to express the note of the bullfinch.

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per Ayat)

Poole: Isa 10:14 - Hath found as a nest // Eggs that are left // All the earth // That moved the wing, or opened the mouth, or peeped

Hath found as a nest as one findeth young birds in a nest, the nest being put for the birds in it, as Deu 32:11 . No less easily do I both find and take them.

Eggs that are left which the dam hath left in her nest. This is more easy than the former; for the young birds might possibly make some faint resistance, or flutter away; but the eggs could do neither.

All the earth all the riches of the earth or world. An hyperbole not unusual in the mouths of such persons, upon such occasions.

That moved the wing, or opened the mouth, or peeped as birds do, which, when they see and cannot hinder the robbing of their nests, express their grief and anger by hovering about them, and by mournful cries.

Haydock: Isa 10:14 - Nest

Nest. Some put these words in the mouth of God. (Tertullian) (Abdias 4.) ---

But they shew the insolence of Sennacherib.

Gill: Isa 10:14 - And my hand hath found as a nest the riches of the people // and as one gathereth eggs that are left // have I gathered all the earth // and there was none that moved the wing // or opened the mouth, or peeped

And my hand hath found as a nest the riches of the people,.... With that ease as a man finds a nest of birds, and takes them:

and as one gathereth eggs that are left; by the bird, who not sitting upon them, there is none to protect them; whereas, when they are sat upon by the bird, she will flutter with her wings, and strike with her bill, and preserve them as well as she can:

have I gathered all the earth; the kingdoms and inhabitants of it, there being none to resist, or that dared to do it, as follows:

and there was none that moved the wing; as a bird will do, when its young or eggs are taken away from it:

or opened the mouth, or peeped; chattered, clucked, or expressed any grief, uneasiness, or resentment; the Targum is,

"that opened his mouth, and spoke a word.''