Ezekiel 30:24

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon and put my sword in his hand, but I will break the arms of Pharaoh, and he will groan before him with the groans of one mortally wounded.

Cross References

Nehemiah 6:9

for they all wanted to frighten us, thinking, “Their hands will drop from the work, and it will not be done.” But now, strengthen my hands.

Job 24:12

From the city the dying groan, and the throat of the wounded cries for help; yet God pays no attention to their prayer.

Psalm 144:1

Blessed be the Lord, my rock, who trains my hands for war and my fingers for battle,

Psalm 17:13

Rise up, O Lord, confront them, overthrow them! By your sword deliver my life from the wicked,

Psalm 18:32

The God who has girded me with strength and made my way safe.

Psalm 18:39

For you girded me with strength for the battle; you made my assailants sink under me.

Isaiah 10:15

Shall the ax vaunt itself over the one who wields it or the saw magnify itself against the one who handles it? As if a rod should raise the one who lifts it up, or as if a staff should lift the one who is not wood!

Isaiah 45:1

Thus says the Lord to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have grasped to subdue nations before him and to strip kings of their robes, to open doors before him— and the gates shall not be closed:

Isaiah 45:5

I am the Lord, and there is no other; besides me there is no god. I arm you, though you do not know me,

Jeremiah 51:52

Therefore the time is surely coming, says the Lord, when I will punish her idols, and through all her land the wounded shall groan.

Ezekiel 26:15

Thus says the Lord God to Tyre: Shall not the coastlands shake at the sound of your fall, when the wounded groan, when slaughter goes on within you?

Ezekiel 29:19

Therefore thus says the Lord God: I will give the land of Egypt to King Nebuchadrezzar of Babylon, and he shall carry off its wealth and despoil it and plunder it, and it shall be the wages for his army.

Ezekiel 30:10

Thus says the Lord God: I will put an end to the hordes of Egypt, by the hand of King Nebuchadrezzar of Babylon.

Ezekiel 30:11

He and his people with him, the most terrible of the nations, shall be brought in to destroy the land, and they shall draw their swords against Egypt and fill the land with the slain.

Ezekiel 30:21

Mortal, I have broken the arm of Pharaoh king of Egypt; it has not been bound up for healing or wrapped with a bandage, so that it may become strong to wield the sword.

Ezekiel 30:25

I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, but the arms of Pharaoh shall fall. And they shall know that I am the Lord when I put my sword into the hand of the king of Babylon. He shall stretch it out against the land of Egypt,

Zephaniah 2:12

You also, O Cushites, shall be killed by my sword.