28 Because your rage against Me and your tumult
Have come up to My ears,
Therefore (A)I will put My hook in your nose
And My bridle in your lips,
And I will turn you back
(B)By the way which you came.

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But (A)I will put hooks in your jaws,
And cause the fish of your rivers to stick to your scales;
I will bring you up out of the midst of your rivers,
And all the fish in your rivers will stick to your scales.

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33 By the way that he came,
By the same shall he return;
And he shall not come into this city,’
Says the Lord.

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(A)The Lord God has sworn by His holiness:
“Behold, the days shall come upon you
When He will take you away (B)with fishhooks,
And your posterity with fishhooks.

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(A)I will turn you around, put hooks into your jaws, and (B)lead you out, with all your army, horses, and horsemen, (C)all splendidly clothed, a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords.

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Can you (A)put a reed through his nose,
Or pierce his jaw with a [a]hook?

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Footnotes

  1. Job 41:2 thorn

Israel Resists the Holy Spirit

51 You (A)stiff-necked[a] and (B)uncircumcised in heart and ears! You always resist the Holy Spirit; as your fathers did, so do you.

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  1. Acts 7:51 stubborn

23 (A)He who hates Me hates My Father also. 24 If I had not done among them (B)the works which no one else did, they would have no sin; but now they have (C)seen and also hated both Me and My Father.

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The World’s Hatred

18 (A)“If the world hates you, you know that it hated Me before it hated you.

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11 But they were filled with rage, and discussed with one another what they might do to Jesus.

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(A)They put him in a cage with [a]chains,
And brought him to the king of Babylon;
They brought him in nets,
That his voice should no longer be heard on (B)the mountains of Israel.

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  1. Ezekiel 19:9 Or hooks

28 (A)His breath is like an overflowing stream,
(B)Which reaches up to the neck,
To sift the nations with the sieve of futility;
And there shall be (C)a bridle in the jaws of the people,
Causing them to err.

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The floods have [a]lifted up, O Lord,
The floods have lifted up their voice;
The floods lift up their waves.
(A)The Lord on high is mightier
Than the noise of many waters,
Than the mighty waves of the sea.

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  1. Psalm 93:3 raised up

For behold, (A)Your enemies make a [a]tumult;
And those who hate You have [b]lifted up their head.

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  1. Psalm 83:2 uproar
  2. Psalm 83:2 Exalted themselves

23 Do not forget the voice of Your enemies;
The tumult of those who rise up against You increases continually.

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(A)Your enemies roar in the midst of Your meeting place;
(B)They set up their banners for signs.

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(A)You who still the noise of the seas,
The noise of their waves,
(B)And the tumult of the peoples.

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(A)The nations raged, the kingdoms were moved;
He uttered His voice, the earth melted.

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Do not be like the (A)horse or like the mule,
Which have no understanding,
Which must be harnessed with bit and bridle,
Else they will not come near you.

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13 Why do the wicked renounce God?
He has said in his heart,
“You will not require an account.

14 But You have (A)seen, for You observe trouble and grief,
To repay it by Your hand.
The helpless (B)commits[a] himself to You;
(C)You are the helper of the fatherless.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 10:14 Lit. leaves, entrusts

Arise, O Lord, in Your anger;
(A)Lift Yourself up because of the rage of my enemies;
(B)Rise up [a]for me to the judgment You have commanded!

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  1. Psalm 7:6 So with MT, Tg., Vg.; LXX O Lord my God

The Messiah’s Triumph and Kingdom(A)

Why (B)do the [a]nations [b]rage,
And the people plot a [c]vain thing?
The kings of the earth set themselves,
And the (C)rulers take counsel together,
Against the Lord and against His (D)Anointed,[d] saying,
“Let (E)us break Their bonds in pieces
And cast away Their cords from us.”

He who sits in the heavens (F)shall laugh;
The Lord shall hold them in derision.
Then He shall speak to them in His wrath,
And distress them in His deep displeasure:

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 2:1 Gentiles
  2. Psalm 2:1 throng tumultuously
  3. Psalm 2:1 worthless or empty
  4. Psalm 2:2 Christ, Commissioned One, Heb. Messiah

36 So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed and went away, returned home, and remained at (A)Nineveh. 37 Now it came to pass, as he was worshiping in the temple of Nisroch his god, that his sons (B)Adrammelech and Sharezer (C)struck him down with the sword; and they escaped into the land of Ararat. Then (D)Esarhaddon his son reigned in his place.

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