29 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 (B)turn you back
By the way which you came.” ’

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29 Because you rage against me
    and because your insolence(A) has reached my ears,
I will put my hook(B) in your nose(C)
    and my bit in your mouth,
and I will make you return
    by the way you came.(D)

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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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I will turn you around, put hooks(A) in your jaws and bring you out with your whole army—your horses, your horsemen fully armed, and a great horde with large and small shields, all of them brandishing their swords.(B)

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34 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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34 By the way that he came he will return;(A)
    he will not enter this city,”
declares the Lord.

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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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28 His breath(A) is like a rushing torrent,(B)
    rising up to the neck.(C)
He shakes the nations in the sieve(D) of destruction;
    he places in the jaws of the peoples
    a bit(E) that leads them astray.

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12 Therefore it shall come to pass, when the Lord has [a]performed all His work (A)on Mount Zion and on Jerusalem, that He will say, (B)“I will punish the fruit of the arrogant heart of the king of Assyria, and the glory of his haughty looks.”

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 10:12 completed

12 When the Lord has finished all his work(A) against Mount Zion(B) and Jerusalem, he will say, “I will punish the king of Assyria(C) for the willful pride(D) of his heart and the haughty look(E) in his eyes.

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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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But I will put hooks(A) in your jaws
    and make the fish of your streams stick to your scales.
I will pull you out from among your streams,
    with all the fish sticking to your scales.(B)

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Paul’s Roman Citizenship

22 And they listened to him until this word, and then they raised their voices and said, (A)“Away with such a fellow from the earth, for (B)he is not fit to live!”

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Paul the Roman Citizen

22 The crowd listened to Paul until he said this. Then they raised their voices and shouted, “Rid the earth of him!(A) He’s not fit to live!”(B)

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Then he fell to the ground, and heard a voice saying to him, “Saul, Saul, (A)why are you persecuting Me?”

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He fell to the ground and heard a voice(A) say to him, “Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me?”

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24 When Pilate saw that he could not prevail at all, but rather that a [a]tumult was rising, he (A)took water and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, “I am innocent of the blood of this [b]just Person. You see to it.

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 27:24 an uproar
  2. Matthew 27:24 NU omits just

24 When Pilate saw that he was getting nowhere, but that instead an uproar(A) was starting, he took water and washed his hands(B) in front of the crowd. “I am innocent of this man’s blood,”(C) he said. “It is your responsibility!”(D)

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(A)What do you [a]conspire against the Lord?
(B)He will make an utter end of it.
Affliction will not rise up a second time.
10 For while tangled (C)like thorns,
(D)And while drunken like drunkards,
(E)They shall be devoured like stubble fully dried.
11 From you comes forth one
Who plots evil against the Lord,
A [b]wicked counselor.

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Footnotes

  1. Nahum 1:9 Or devise
  2. Nahum 1:11 Lit. counselor of Belial

Whatever they plot(A) against the Lord
    he will bring[a] to an end;
    trouble will not come a second time.
10 They will be entangled among thorns(B)
    and drunk(C) from their wine;
    they will be consumed like dry stubble.[b](D)
11 From you, Nineveh, has one come forth
    who plots evil against the Lord
    and devises wicked plans.

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  1. Nahum 1:9 Or What do you foes plot against the Lord? / He will bring it
  2. Nahum 1:10 The meaning of the Hebrew for this verse is uncertain.

(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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The Sovereign Lord has sworn by his holiness:
    “The time(A) will surely come
when you will be taken away(B) with hooks,(C)
    the last of you with fishhooks.[a]

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  1. Amos 4:2 Or away in baskets, / the last of you in fish baskets

10 “Thus you shall speak to Hezekiah king of Judah, saying: ‘Do not let your God in whom you trust deceive you, saying, “Jerusalem shall not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.”

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10 “Say to Hezekiah king of Judah: Do not let the god you depend on deceive(A) you when he says, ‘Jerusalem will not be given into the hands of the king of Assyria.’(B)

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10 Have I now come up without the Lord against this land to destroy it? The Lord said to me, ‘Go up against this land, and destroy it.’ ”

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10 Furthermore, have I come to attack and destroy this land without the Lord? The Lord himself told(A) me to march against this country and destroy it.’”

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