Does an ax exalt itself over the one who wields it, or a saw magnify itself over the one who cuts with it? As if a scepter should brandish the one who raises it, or a staff should lift up what is not made of wood!

“The Lord has broken the staff of the wicked,
The scepter of the [tyrant] rulers

Indeed, the Assyrians will be shattered at the LORD's voice, when he strikes them with his scepter.

They hatch cockatrice' eggs, and weave the spider's web: he that eateth of their eggs dieth, and that which is crushed breaketh out into a viper.