Isaiah 14:26

The hand. When Isaiah caught a vision of the greatness of God he also became aware of the insignificance of man. At that time the whole world stood in awe of Assyrian might. But Isaiah saw the Lord as One who had “measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span,” before whom the “nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance” (ch. 40:12, 15). Only the man who is acquainted with God has a clear understanding of the affairs of earth. All the “nations before him are as nothing; and they are counted to him less than nothing, and vanity” (v. 17). To a man who saw God seated upon His eternal throne, Assyria would bring no dark forebodings or fear. In its time of trial, when the heel of Assyria seemed about to crush out its very existence, Judah was much in need of such a message of encouragement as this.