Isaiah 14:17
who made the world like a wilderness, and overthrew its cities, who didn’t release his prisoners to their home?”
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Isaiah 14:17
who made the world like a wilderness, and overthrew its cities, who didn’t release his prisoners to their home?”
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Isaiah 14:8
Yes, the cypress trees rejoice with you, with the cedars of Lebanon, saying, “Since you are humbled, no lumberjack has come up against us.”
Isaiah 14:9
Sheol from beneath has moved for you to meet you at your coming. It stirs up the departed spirits for you, even all the rulers of the earth. It has raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations.
Isaiah 14:10
They all will answer and ask you, “Have you also become as weak as we are? Have you become like us?”
Isaiah 14:11
Your pomp is brought down to Sheol, with the sound of your stringed instruments. Maggots are spread out under you, and worms cover you.
Isaiah 14:12
How you have fallen from heaven, shining one, son of the dawn! How you are cut down to the ground, who laid the nations low!
Isaiah 14:13
You said in your heart, “I will ascend into heaven! I will exalt my throne above the stars of God! I will sit on the mountain of assembly, in the far north!
Isaiah 14:14
I will ascend above the heights of the clouds! I will make myself like the Most High!”
Isaiah 14:15
Yet you shall be brought down to Sheol, to the depths of the pit.
Isaiah 14:16
Those who see you will stare at you. They will ponder you, saying, “Is this the man who made the earth to tremble, who shook kingdoms,
Isaiah 14:17
who made the world like a wilderness, and overthrew its cities, who didn’t release his prisoners to their home?”
Isaiah 14:18
All the kings of the nations sleep in glory, everyone in his own house.
Isaiah 14:19
But you are cast away from your tomb like an abominable branch, clothed with the slain who are thrust through with the sword, who go down to the stones of the pit; like a dead body trodden under foot.
Isaiah 14:4
that you will take up this parable against the king of Babylon, and say, “How the oppressor has ceased! The golden city has ceased!”
Isaiah 14:5
Yahweh has broken the staff of the wicked, the scepter of the rulers,
Isaiah 14:6
who struck the peoples in wrath with a continual stroke, who ruled the nations in anger, with a persecution that no one restrained.
Revelation 18:16
saying, ‘Woe, woe, the great city, she who was dressed in fine linen, purple, and scarlet, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls!
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Psalms 102:20
to hear the groans of the prisoner, to free those who are condemned to death,
Psalms 79:11
Let the sighing of the prisoner come before you. According to the greatness of your power, preserve those who are sentenced to death.
Isaiah 45:13
I have raised him up in righteousness, and I will make all his ways straight. He shall build my city, and he shall let my exiles go free, not for price nor reward,” says Yahweh of Armies.
Jeremiah 52:31
In the thirty-seventh year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, in the twenty-fifth day of the month, Evilmerodach king of Babylon, in the first year of his reign, lifted up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah, and released him from prison.
Zechariah 9:11
As for you also, because of the blood of your covenant, I have set free your prisoners from the pit in which is no water.
Zechariah 9:12
Turn to the stronghold, you prisoners of hope! Even today I declare that I will restore double to you.
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Isaiah 14:20
You will not join them in burial, because you have destroyed your land. You have killed your people. The offspring of evildoers will not be named forever.
Isaiah 14:21
Prepare for slaughter of his children because of the iniquity of their fathers, that they not rise up and possess the earth, and fill the surface of the world with cities.
Ezekiel 27:35
All the inhabitants of the islands are astonished at you, and their kings are horribly afraid. They are troubled in their face.
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Exodus 9:17
because you still exalt yourself against my people, that you won’t let them go.
Proverbs 16:5
Everyone who is proud in heart is an abomination to Yahweh; they shall certainly not be unpunished.
Isaiah 8:10
Take counsel together, and it will be brought to nothing; speak the word, and it will not stand, for God is with us.”
Isaiah 8:19
When they tell you, “Consult with those who have familiar spirits and with the wizards, who chirp and who mutter,” shouldn’t a people consult with their God? Should they consult the dead on behalf of the living?
Isaiah 13:9
Behold, the day of Yahweh comes, cruel, with wrath and fierce anger; to make the land a desolation, and to destroy its sinners out of it.
Isaiah 14:25
that I will break the Assyrian in my land, and tread him under foot on my mountains. Then his yoke will leave them, and his burden leave their shoulders.
Daniel 4:30
The king spoke and said, “Is not this great Babylon, which I have built for the royal dwelling place by the might of my power and for the glory of my majesty?”
Daniel 5:20
But when his heart was lifted up, and his spirit was hardened so that he dealt proudly, he was deposed from his kingly throne, and they took his glory from him.
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Isaiah 10:7
However, he doesn’t mean so, neither does his heart think so; but it is in his heart to destroy, and to cut off not a few nations.
Isaiah 10:9
Isn’t Calno like Carchemish? Isn’t Hamath like Arpad? Isn’t Samaria like Damascus?”
Isaiah 10:13
For he has said, “By the strength of my hand I have done it, and by my wisdom, for I have understanding. I have removed the boundaries of the peoples, and have robbed their treasures. Like a valiant man I have brought down their rulers.
Isaiah 10:14
My hand has found the riches of the peoples like a nest, and like one gathers eggs that are abandoned, I have gathered all the earth. There was no one who moved their wing, or that opened their mouth, or chirped.”
Isaiah 37:11
Behold, you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands, by destroying them utterly. Shall you be delivered?
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Isaiah 47:6
I was angry with my people. I profaned my inheritance and gave them into your hand. You showed them no mercy. You laid a very heavy yoke on the aged.
Isaiah 58:6
“Isn’t this the fast that I have chosen: to release the bonds of wickedness, to undo the straps of the yoke, to let the oppressed go free, and that you break every yoke?
Jeremiah 50:33
Yahweh of Armies says: “The children of Israel and the children of Judah are oppressed together. All who took them captive hold them fast. They refuse to let them go.
Jeremiah 51:34
“Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon has devoured me. He has crushed me. He has made me an empty vessel. He has, like a monster, swallowed me up. He has filled his mouth with my delicacies. He has cast me out.
Jeremiah 51:35
May the violence done to me and to my flesh be on Babylon!” the inhabitant of Zion will say; and, “May my blood be on the inhabitants of Chaldea!” will Jerusalem say.
Lamentations 3:34
To crush under foot all the prisoners of the earth,
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