Isaiah 54:16-17

16, 17. I have created the smith Every instrument which is employed against God’s people, as well as its maker, is in God’s hands to overrule and to foreclose.

I have created the waster to destroy This means, that Zion’s welfare is wholly in God’s care, and every destroyer in war in the interest only of himself is equally and absolutely at God’s ultimate disposal. “The smith,” or armorer, who forges the weapon, and the warrior who wields it, are both as easily controlled as created. Man’s free act, when projected, is in divine, not in self-same human hands, to be used.