running stubbornly against him with a thickly bossed shield;
You made my enemies turn their backs to me, and those who hated me I destroyed.
I was at ease, and he broke me apart; he seized me by the neck and dashed me to pieces; he set me up as his target;
In the time of his distress he became yet more faithless to the Lord—this same King Ahaz.
“Judah, your brothers shall praise you; your hand shall be on the neck of your enemies; your father’s sons shall bow down before you.
Because he has stretched out his hand against God and defies the Almighty,
because he has covered his face with his fat and gathered fat upon his waist
But Pharaoh said, “Who is the Lord, that I should obey his voice and let Israel go? I do not know the Lord, and moreover, I will not let Israel go.”
For not from the east or from the west and not from the wilderness comes lifting up,