Isaiah 37:29
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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.” ’
Ezekiel 38:4
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4 (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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Isaiah 37:34
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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.
Isaiah 30:28
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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.
Isaiah 10:12
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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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- Isaiah 10:12 completed
Ezekiel 29:4
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4 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.
Acts 22:22
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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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Acts 9:4
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4 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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Matthew 27:24
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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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- Matthew 27:24 an uproar
- Matthew 27:24 NU omits just
Nahum 1:9-11
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9 (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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- Nahum 1:9 Or devise
- Nahum 1:11 Lit. counselor of Belial
Amos 4:2
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2 (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.
Isaiah 37:10
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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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Isaiah 36:10
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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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Isaiah 36:4
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4 (A)Then the Rabshakeh said to them, “Say now to Hezekiah, ‘Thus says the great king, the king of Assyria: “What confidence is this in which you trust?
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Psalm 93:3-4
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3 The floods have [a]lifted up, O Lord,
The floods have lifted up their voice;
The floods lift up their waves.
4 (A)The Lord on high is mightier
Than the noise of many waters,
Than the mighty waves of the sea.
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- Psalm 93:3 raised up
Psalm 83:2
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Footnotes
- Psalm 83:2 uproar
- Psalm 83:2 Exalted themselves
Psalm 74:23
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23 Do not forget the voice of Your enemies;
The tumult of those who rise up against You increases continually.
Psalm 74:4
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Psalm 46:6
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6 (A)The nations raged, the kingdoms were moved;
He uttered His voice, the earth melted.
Psalm 32:9
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9 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.
Psalm 2:1-3
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The Messiah’s Triumph and Kingdom(A)
2 Why (B)do the [a]nations [b]rage,
And the people plot a [c]vain thing?
2 The kings of the earth set themselves,
And the (C)rulers take counsel together,
Against the Lord and against His (D)Anointed,[d] saying,
3 “Let (E)us break Their bonds in pieces
And cast away Their cords from us.”
Job 41:2
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- Job 41:2 thorn
Job 15:25-26
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25 For he stretches out his hand against God,
And acts defiantly against the Almighty,
26 Running stubbornly against Him
With his strong, embossed shield.
2 Kings 19:27-28
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27 ‘But (A)I know your dwelling place,
Your going out and your coming in,
And your rage against Me.
28 Because your rage against Me and your tumult
Have come up to My ears,
Therefore (B)I will put My hook in your nose
And My bridle in your lips,
And I will turn you back
(C)By the way which you came.
John 15:22-23
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22 (A)If I had not come and spoken to them, they would have no sin, (B)but now they have no excuse for their sin. 23 (C)He who hates Me hates My Father also.
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