Job 12:14
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14 If he tears down, no one can rebuild;
if he shuts someone in, no one can open up.(A)
Revelation 3:7
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7 “And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write:
These are the words of the Holy One, the True One,
who has the key of David,
who opens and no one will shut,
who shuts and no one opens:(A)
Isaiah 22:22
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22 I will place on his shoulder the key of the house of David; he shall open, and no one shall shut; he shall shut, and no one shall open.(A)
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Malachi 1:4
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4 If Edom says, ‘We are shattered but we will rebuild the ruins,’ the Lord of hosts says: They may build, but I will tear down, until they are called the wicked country, the people with whom the Lord is angry forever.
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Job 37:7
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Job 19:10
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10 He breaks me down on every side, and I am gone;
he has uprooted my hope like a tree.(A)
Job 16:11
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11 God gives me up to the evil
and casts me into the hands of the wicked.(A)
Job 11:10
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10 If he passes through and imprisons
and assembles for judgment, who can hinder him?(A)
Romans 11:32
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32 For God has imprisoned all in disobedience so that he may be merciful to all.(A)
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Jeremiah 51:64
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64 and say, ‘Thus shall Babylon sink, to rise no more, because of the disasters that I am bringing on her.’ ”[a]
Thus far are the words of Jeremiah.(A)
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- 51.64 Gk: Heb on her. And they shall weary themselves
Jeremiah 51:58
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58 Thus says the Lord of hosts:
The broad wall of Babylon
shall be leveled to the ground,
and her high gates
shall be burned with fire.
The peoples exhaust themselves for nothing,
the nations only for fire,
and they have become weary.(A)
Isaiah 25:2
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2 For you have made the city a heap,
the fortified city a ruin;
the palace of foreigners is a city no more;
it will never be rebuilt.(A)
Isaiah 14:23
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23 And I will make it a possession of the screech owl[a] and pools of water, and I will sweep it with the broom of destruction, says the Lord of hosts.(A)
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- 14.23 Meaning of Heb uncertain
Job 9:12-13
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12 He snatches away; who can stop him?
Who will say to him, ‘What are you doing?’(A)
13 “God will not turn back his anger;
the helpers of Rahab bowed beneath him.(B)
1 Samuel 26:8
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8 Abishai said to David, “God has given your enemy into your hand today; now, therefore, let me pin him to the ground with one stroke of the spear; I will not strike him twice.”
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1 Samuel 24:18
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18 Today you have explained how you have dealt well with me, in that you did not kill me when the Lord put me into your hands.(A)
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1 Samuel 17:46
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46 This very day the Lord will deliver you into my hand, and I will strike you down and cut off your head, and I will give the dead bodies of the Philistine army this very day to the birds of the air and to the wild animals of the earth, so that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel(A)
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