Isaiah 37:26

26. Through the prophet God now speaks to Sennacherib.

Hast thou not heard Is it real ignorance on thy part, that Jehovah is the only true God, and has control of Assyria; that she is his instrument, the rod of his anger, (Isaiah 10:5; Isaiah 10:15,) to lay waste peoples who submit not to warning and correction? Thou dost boast that it is all by thy command and might, but it is I, who long ago… have done it. (Isaiah 22:11.) Because I so ordered it, the people were of small power before thee.

Of ancient times… I have formed it The idea of overruling evil men and their acts is eternal with God. How the Eternal consists with the finite historical, or the absolute with the relative, is doubtless to be forever unknown to men.