Isaiah 54:16

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

Behold, I have created the smith who blows the fire of coals, and produces a weapon for its purpose. I have also created the ravager to destroy;

Cross References

Exodus 9:16

but for this purpose have I let you live, to show you my power, so that my name may be declared throughout all the earth.

Proverbs 16:4

The Lord has made everything for its purpose, even the wicked for the day of trouble.

Isaiah 10:15

Shall the axe vaunt itself over him who hews with it, or the saw magnify itself against him who wields it? As if a rod should wield him who lifts it, or as if a staff should lift him who is not wood!

Isaiah 37:26

“ ‘Have you not heard that I determined it long ago? I planned from days of old what now I bring to pass, that you should make fortified cities crash into heaps of ruins,

Isaiah 46:11

calling a bird of prey from the east, the man of my counsel from a far country. I have spoken, and I will bring it to pass; I have purposed, and I will do it.

Isaiah 54:15

If any one stirs up strife, it is not from me; whoever stirs up strife with you shall fall because of you.

Isaiah 54:17

no weapon that is fashioned against you shall prosper, and you shall confute every tongue that rises against you in judgment. This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord and their vindication from me, says the Lord.”

Zechariah 1:20

Then the Lord showed me four smiths.

Zechariah 2:1

And I lifted my eyes and saw, and behold, a man with a measuring line in his hand!

Zechariah 2:4

and said to him, “Run, say to that young man, ‘Jerusalem shall be inhabited as villages without walls, because of the multitude of men and cattle in it.

John 19:11

Jesus answered him, “You would have no power over me unless it had been given you from above; therefore he who delivered me to you has the greater sin.”

1 Samuel 13:19

Now there was no smith to be found throughout all the land of Israel; for the Philistines said, “Lest the Hebrews make themselves swords or spears”;