24 I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon and put My sword in his hand; but I will break Pharaoh’s arms, and he will groan before him with the groanings of a mortally wounded man.

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24 I will strengthen(A) the arms of the king of Babylon and put my sword(B) in his hand, but I will break the arms of Pharaoh, and he will groan(C) before him like a mortally wounded man.

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24 And I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, and put my sword in his hand: but I will break Pharaoh's arms, and he shall groan before him with the groanings of a deadly wounded man.

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12 “You(A) Ethiopians also,
You shall be slain by (B)My sword.”

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Cush

12 “You Cushites,[a](A) too,
    will be slain by my sword.(B)

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Footnotes

  1. Zephaniah 2:12 That is, people from the upper Nile region

12 Ye Ethiopians also, ye shall be slain by my sword.

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25 Thus I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, but the arms of Pharaoh shall fall down; (A)they shall know that I am the Lord, when I put My sword into the hand of the king of Babylon and he stretches it out against the land of Egypt.

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25 I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, but the arms of Pharaoh will fall limp. Then they will know that I am the Lord, when I put my sword(A) into the hand of the king of Babylon and he brandishes it against Egypt.(B)

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25 But I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, and the arms of Pharaoh shall fall down; and they shall know that I am the Lord, when I shall put my sword into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall stretch it out upon the land of Egypt.

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I (A)am the Lord, and (B)there is no other;
There is no God besides Me.
(C)I will gird you, though you have not known Me,

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I am the Lord, and there is no other;(A)
    apart from me there is no God.(B)
I will strengthen you,(C)
    though you have not acknowledged me,

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I am the Lord, and there is none else, there is no God beside me: I girded thee, though thou hast not known me:

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Cyrus, God’s Instrument

45 “Thus says the Lord to His anointed,
To (A)Cyrus, whose (B)right hand I have [a]held—
(C)To subdue nations before him
And (D)loose the armor of kings,
To open before him the double doors,
So that the gates will not be shut:

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 45:1 strengthened or sustained

45 “This is what the Lord says to his anointed,(A)
    to Cyrus,(B) whose right hand I take hold(C) of
to subdue nations(D) before him
    and to strip kings of their armor,
to open doors before him
    so that gates will not be shut:

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45 Thus saith the Lord to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have holden, to subdue nations before him; and I will loose the loins of kings, to open before him the two leaved gates; and the gates shall not be shut;

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For they all were trying to make us afraid, saying, “Their hands will be weakened in the work, and it will not be done.”

Now therefore, O God, strengthen my hands.

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They were all trying to frighten us, thinking, “Their hands will get too weak for the work, and it will not be completed.”

But I prayed, “Now strengthen my hands.”

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For they all made us afraid, saying, Their hands shall be weakened from the work, that it be not done. Now therefore, O God, strengthen my hands.

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11 (A)He shall pass through the sea with affliction,
And strike the waves of the sea:
All the depths of [a]the River shall dry up.
Then (B)the pride of Assyria shall be brought down,
And (C)the scepter of Egypt shall depart.

12 “So I will strengthen them in the Lord,
And (D)they shall walk up and down in His name,”
Says the Lord.

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Footnotes

  1. Zechariah 10:11 The Nile

11 They will pass through the sea of trouble;
    the surging sea will be subdued
    and all the depths of the Nile will dry up.(A)
Assyria’s pride(B) will be brought down
    and Egypt’s scepter(C) will pass away.(D)
12 I will strengthen(E) them in the Lord
    and in his name they will live securely,(F)
declares the Lord.

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11 And he shall pass through the sea with affliction, and shall smite the waves in the sea, and all the deeps of the river shall dry up: and the pride of Assyria shall be brought down, and the sceptre of Egypt shall depart away.

12 And I will strengthen them in the Lord; and they shall walk up and down in his name, saith the Lord.

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10 ‘Thus says the Lord God:

(A)“I will also make a multitude of Egypt to cease
By the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon.

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10 “‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says:

“‘I will put an end to the hordes of Egypt
    by the hand of Nebuchadnezzar(A) king of Babylon.(B)

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10 Thus saith the Lord God; I will also make the multitude of Egypt to cease by the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon.

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15 “Thus says the Lord God to Tyre: ‘Will the coastlands not (A)shake at the sound of your fall, when the wounded cry, when slaughter is made in the midst of you?

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15 “This is what the Sovereign Lord says to Tyre: Will not the coastlands(A) tremble(B) at the sound of your fall, when the wounded groan(C) and the slaughter takes place in you?

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15 Thus saith the Lord God to Tyrus; Shall not the isles shake at the sound of thy fall, when the wounded cry, when the slaughter is made in the midst of thee?

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