Destroy And Disperse Them

Job 12:20-23 – He silences the lips of trusted advisers and takes away the discernment of elders. He pours contempt on nobles and disarms the mighty. He reveals the deep things of darkness and brings utter darkness into the light. He makes nations great, and destroys them; he enlarges nations, and disperses them.

Psalm 107:39-40 – Then their numbers decreased, and they were humbled by oppression, calamity and sorrow; he who pours contempt on nobles made them wander in a trackless waste.

Jeremiah 25:9 –  I will summon all the peoples of the north and my servant Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon,” declares the Lord, “and I will bring them against this land and its inhabitants and against all the surrounding nations. I will completely destroy them and make them an object of horror and scorn, and an everlasting ruin.

Application:

• ·         In their prosperity the people, led by their nobles, grow proud and turn their backs on the God who has blessed them, so He returns them to the desert.
• ·         God knows even plans conceived and held in secret.
• ·         “Servant” is used here not in the sense of “worshiper” but of “vassal” or “agent of judgment”, just as the pagan ruler Cyrus is called the Lord’s “shepherd” and His “anointed”.

All Scripture verses taken from NIV