Verse 15

The light is withheld from the wicked, and the uplifted arm is broken.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 10:15 : 15 Break the arm of the wicked and the evildoer! Call him to account for his wickedness until it is no more found.
  • Ps 37:17 : 17 For the arms of the wicked will be broken, but the LORD supports the righteous.
  • Job 18:5 : 5 Indeed, the light of the wicked will be extinguished, and the flame of his fire will not shine.
  • Ezek 30:22 : 22 Therefore, this is what the Lord God says: 'Behold, I am against Pharaoh, king of Egypt. I will break both his strong arm and his broken one and cause the sword to fall from his hand.'
  • Job 5:14 : 14 They encounter darkness by day and grope in the noonday as if it were night.
  • Acts 13:10-11 : 10 And he said, 'You are full of all deceit and all fraud, son of the devil, enemy of all righteousness! Will you not stop making crooked the straight paths of the Lord?' 11 And now, behold, the hand of the Lord is upon you, and you will be blind and unable to see the sun for a time. Immediately, a mist and darkness fell upon him, and he went about seeking someone to lead him by the hand.
  • Job 18:18 : 18 He is driven from light into darkness and chased out of the world.
  • Exod 10:21-23 : 21 Then the LORD said to Moses, "Stretch out your hand toward the sky so that darkness may spread over Egypt—a darkness that can be felt." 22 So Moses stretched out his hand toward the sky, and thick darkness covered all Egypt for three days. 23 No one could see anyone else or move from their place for three days. But all the Israelites had light where they lived.
  • 2 Kgs 6:18 : 18 As the enemy came down toward him, Elisha prayed to the LORD, "Please strike this army with blindness." So He struck them with blindness, as Elisha had requested.
  • Prov 4:19 : 19 The way of the wicked is like deep darkness; they do not know what makes them stumble.
  • Isa 8:21-22 : 21 Distressed and hungry, they will roam through the land; when they are famished, they will become enraged, and looking upward, they will curse their king and their God. 22 Then they will look toward the earth and see only distress and darkness and fearful gloom, and they will be thrust into utter darkness.
  • Jer 13:16 : 16 Give glory to the LORD your God before He brings darkness, and before your feet stumble on the darkening mountains. You hope for light, but He will turn it to gloom and thick darkness.