Job 12:23

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

He makes nations great, then destroys them; he enlarges nations, then leads them away.

Cross References

Psalm 107:38

By his blessing they multiply greatly, and he does not let their cattle decrease.

Psalm 107:39

When they are diminished and brought low through oppression, trouble, and sorrow,

Exodus 1:20

So God dealt well with the midwives, and the people multiplied and became very strong.

Exodus 1:7

But the Israelites were fruitful and prolific; they multiplied and grew exceedingly strong, so that the land was filled with them.

Isaiah 26:15

But you have increased the nation, O Lord; you have increased the nation; you are glorified; you have enlarged all the borders of the land.

Isaiah 27:6

In days to come Jacob shall take root; Israel shall blossom and put forth shoots and fill the whole world with fruit.

Isaiah 51:2

Look to Abraham your father and to Sarah, who bore you, for he was but one when I called him, but I blessed him and made him many.

Isaiah 60:22

The least of them shall become a clan and the smallest one a mighty nation; I am the Lord; in its time I will accomplish it quickly.

Isaiah 9:3

You have multiplied exultation; you have increased its joy; they rejoice before you as with joy at the harvest, as people exult when dividing plunder.

Jeremiah 30:19

Out of them shall come thanksgiving and the sound of merrymakers. I will make them many, and they shall not be few; I will make them honored, and they shall not be disdained.

Jeremiah 33:22

Just as the host of heaven cannot be numbered and the sands of the sea cannot be measured, so I will increase the offspring of my servant David and the Levites who minister to me.

Zechariah 10:8

I will signal for them and gather them in, for I have redeemed them, and they shall be as numerous as they were before.

Acts 17:26

From one ancestor he made all peoples to inhabit the whole earth, and he allotted the times of their existence and the boundaries of the places where they would live,