29 (A)Because you have raged against me
    and your complacency has come to my ears,
I will put my hook in your nose
    and my bit in your mouth,
and (B)I will turn you back on the way
    by which you came.’

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(A)And I will turn you about and (B)put hooks into your jaws, and I will bring you out, and (C)all your army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed in full armor, a great host, all of them with buckler and shield, wielding swords.

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28 (A)his breath is (B)like an overflowing stream
    that reaches up to the neck;
to sift the nations with the sieve of destruction,
    and to place on the jaws of the peoples (C)a bridle that leads astray.

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I will (A)put hooks in your jaws,
    and make the fish of your streams stick to your scales;
and I will draw you up out of the midst of your streams,
    with all the fish of your streams
    that stick to your scales.

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34 By the way that he came, by the same he shall return, and he shall not come into this city, declares the Lord.

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12 (A)When the Lord has finished all his work on Mount Zion and on Jerusalem, (B)he[a] will punish the speech[b] of the arrogant heart of the king of Assyria and the boastful look in his eyes.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 10:12 Hebrew I
  2. Isaiah 10:12 Hebrew fruit

Paul and the Roman Tribune

22 Up to this word they listened to him. Then they raised their voices and said, (A)“Away with such a fellow from the earth! For (B)he should not be allowed to live.”

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And falling to the ground, he heard a voice saying to him, “Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting (A)me?”

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22 If I had not come and spoken to them, (A)they would not have been guilty of sin,[a] but now they have no excuse for their sin. 23 (B)Whoever hates me hates my Father also.

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Footnotes

  1. John 15:22 Greek they would not have sin; also verse 24

Pilate Delivers Jesus to Be Crucified

24 So when Pilate saw that he was gaining nothing, but rather that (A)a riot was beginning, he took water and (B)washed his hands before the crowd, saying, “I am innocent of (C)this man's blood;[a] (D)see to it yourselves.”

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  1. Matthew 27:24 Some manuscripts this righteous blood, or this righteous man's blood

What (A)do you plot against the Lord?
    (B)He will make a complete end;
    trouble will not rise up a second time.
10 For they are (C)like entangled thorns,
    like drunkards as they drink;
    (D)they are consumed like stubble fully dried.
11 From you came one
    (E)who plotted evil against the Lord,
    a worthless counselor.

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(A)The Lord God has sworn by his holiness
    that, behold, the days are coming upon you,
(B)when they shall take you away with hooks,
    (C)even the last of you with fishhooks.

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10 “Thus shall you speak to Hezekiah king of Judah: (A)‘Do not let your God in whom you trust deceive you by promising that Jerusalem will not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.

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10 Moreover, is it without the Lord that I have come up against this land to destroy it? (A)The Lord said to me, “Go up against this land and destroy it.”’”

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And the Rabshakeh said to them, “Say to Hezekiah, ‘Thus says the (A)great king, the king of Assyria: On what do you rest this trust of yours?

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(A)The floods have lifted up, O Lord,
    the floods have lifted up their voice;
    the floods lift up their roaring.
Mightier than the thunders of many waters,
    mightier than the waves of the sea,
    (B)the Lord (C)on high is mighty!

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For behold, your enemies (A)make an uproar;
    those who hate you have (B)raised their heads.

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23 Do not forget the clamor of your foes,
    (A)the uproar of those who rise against you, which goes up continually!

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Your foes have (A)roared in the midst of your meeting place;
    (B)they set up their (C)own signs for (D)signs.

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(A)Be not like a horse or a mule, without understanding,
    which must be curbed with (B)bit and bridle,
    or it will not stay near you.

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The Reign of the Lord's Anointed

(A)Why do (B)the nations rage[a]
    and the peoples plot in vain?
The kings of the earth set themselves,
    and the rulers take counsel together,
    against the Lord and against his (C)Anointed, saying,
“Let us (D)burst their bonds apart
    and cast away their cords from us.”

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 2:1 Or nations noisily assemble

Can you put (A)a rope in his nose
    or pierce his jaw with (B)a hook?

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25 Because he has stretched out his hand against God
    and defies the Almighty,
26 (A)running (B)stubbornly against him
    with a thickly bossed shield;

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27 “But I know your sitting down
    (A)and your going out and coming in,
    and your raging against me.
28 Because you have raged against me
    and your complacency has come into my ears,
I will (B)put my hook in your nose
    and my bit in your mouth,
and (C)I will turn you back on the way
    by which you came.

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