Who Can Annual God’s Plan? Isaiah 12-17

Isaiah 14:24-27 (ESV)

An Oracle Concerning Assyria

The LORD of hosts has sworn:

“As I have planned,

so shall it be,

and as I have purposed,

so shall it stand,

that I will break the Assyrian in my land,

and on my mountains trample him underfoot;

and his yoke shall depart from them,

and his burden from their shoulder.”

This is the purpose that is purposed

concerning the whole earth,

and this is the hand that is stretched out

over all the nations.

For the LORD of hosts has purposed,

and who will annul it?

His hand is stretched out,

and who will turn it back?

The above passage is written by Isaiah as a prophecy over the Assyrians, who God is going to use as a tool to discipline Israel for their disobedience to Him.  It should be a surprise to us that God can and will use a wicked nation to punish His people.  But that is God’s plan.   

The other amazing truth, however, in the above text is that God has a purpose for the nations and His people and nothing will stop God in His exacting out that purpose.   When God proposes something, who will annul it?  We should rejoice in His purpose and remember that it is all done from His steadfast love for us.