Ezekiel 30:24
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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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Zephaniah 2:12
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Ezekiel 30:25
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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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Isaiah 45:5
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5 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,
Isaiah 45:1
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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:
Footnotes
- Isaiah 45:1 strengthened or sustained
Nehemiah 6:9
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9 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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Zechariah 10:11-12
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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.
Footnotes
- Zechariah 10:11 The Nile
Ezekiel 30:10
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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.
Ezekiel 26:15
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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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Jeremiah 51:52
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52 “Therefore behold, the days are coming,” says the Lord,
“That I will bring judgment on her carved images,
And throughout all her land the wounded shall groan.
Jeremiah 27:6-8
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6 (A)And now I have given all these lands into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, (B)My servant; and (C)the beasts of the field I have also given him to serve him. 7 (D)So all nations shall serve him and his son and his son’s son, (E)until the time of his land comes; (F)and then many nations and great kings shall make him serve them. 8 And it shall be, that the nation and kingdom which will not serve Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, and which will not put its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, that nation I will punish,’ says the Lord, ‘with the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, until I have consumed them by his hand.
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Isaiah 10:15
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15 Shall (A)the ax boast itself against him who chops with it?
Or shall the saw exalt itself against him who saws with it?
As if a rod could wield itself against those who lift it up,
Or as if a staff could lift up, as if it were not wood!
Isaiah 10:5-6
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Arrogant Assyria Also Judged
5 “Woe to Assyria, (A)the rod of My anger
And the staff in whose hand is My indignation.
6 I will send him against (B)an ungodly nation,
And against the people of My wrath
I will (C)give him charge,
To seize the spoil, to take the prey,
And to tread them down like the mire of the streets.
Psalm 144:1
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A Song to the Lord Who Preserves and Prospers His People
A Psalm of David.
144 Blessed be the Lord my Rock,
(A)Who trains my hands for war,
And my fingers for battle—
Psalm 18:39
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39 For You have armed me with strength for the battle;
You have [a]subdued under me those who rose up against me.
Footnotes
- Psalm 18:39 Lit. caused to bow
Psalm 18:32
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32 It is God who (A)arms me with strength,
And makes my way perfect.
Psalm 17:13
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13 Arise, O Lord,
Confront him, cast him down;
Deliver my life from the wicked with Your sword,
Job 24:12
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12 The dying groan in the city,
And the souls of the wounded cry out;
Yet God does not charge them with wrong.
Deuteronomy 32:41-42
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41 (A)If I [a]whet My glittering sword,
And My hand takes hold on judgment,
I will render vengeance to My enemies,
And repay those who hate Me.
42 I will make My arrows drunk with blood,
And My sword shall devour flesh,
With the blood of the slain and the captives,
From the heads of the leaders of the enemy.” ’
Footnotes
- Deuteronomy 32:41 sharpen
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