Isaiah 31:5

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Like birds with outstretched wings, so will the Lord of armies be a cover to Jerusalem; he will be a cover and salvation for it, going over it he will keep it from danger.

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  • Deut 32:11 : 11 As an eagle, teaching her young to make their flight, with her wings outstretched over them, takes them up on her strong feathers:
  • Ps 91:4 : 4 You will be covered by his feathers; under his wings you will be safe: his good faith will be your salvation.
  • Isa 38:6 : 6 And I will keep you and this town safe from the hands of the king of Assyria: and I will keep watch over this town.
  • Isa 37:35 : 35 For I will keep this town safe, for my honour, and for the honour of my servant David.
  • Isa 10:14 : 14 And I have put my hands on the wealth of the peoples, as on the place where a bird has put her eggs; and as a man may take the eggs from which a bird has gone, so I have taken all the earth for myself: and not a wing was moved, and not a mouth gave out a sound.
  • Ps 37:40 : 40 And the Lord will be their help, and keep them safe: he will take them out of the hands of the evil-doers, and be their saviour, because they had faith in him.
  • Ps 46:5 : 5 God has taken his place in her; she will not be moved: he will come to her help at the dawn of morning.
  • Exod 12:27 : 27 Then you will say, This is the offering of the Lord's Passover; for he went over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt, when he sent death on the Egyptians, and kept our families safe. And the people gave worship with bent heads.
  • Exod 19:4 : 4 You have seen what I did to the Egyptians, and how I took you, as on eagles' wings, guiding you to myself.

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  • Isa 31:4
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    4 For the Lord has said to me, As a lion, or a young lion, makes an angry noise over his food, and if a band of herdsmen come out against him, he will not be in fear of their voices, or give up his food for their noise: so the Lord of armies will come down to make war against Mount Zion and its hill.

  • 2 Kgs 19:31-32
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    31 For from Jerusalem those who have been kept safe will go out, and those who are still living will go out of Mount Zion: by the fixed purpose of the Lord of armies this will be done.

    32 For this cause the Lord says about the king of Assyria, He will not come into this town, or send an arrow against it; he will not come before it with arms, or put up an earthwork against it;

  • Isa 37:32-35
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    32 For from Jerusalem those who have been kept safe will go out, and those who are still living will go out of Mount Zion: by the fixed purpose of the Lord of armies this will be done.

    33 For this cause the Lord says about the king of Assyria, He will not come into this town, or send an arrow against it; he will not come before it with arms, or put up an earthwork against it.

    34 By the way he came he will go back, and he will not get into this town.

    35 For I will keep this town safe, for my honour, and for the honour of my servant David.

  • Isa 31:9
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    9 And his rock will come to nothing because of fear, and his chiefs will go in flight from the flag, says the Lord, whose fire is in Zion, and his altar in Jerusalem.

  • Zech 9:14-16
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    14 And the Lord will be seen over them, and his arrow will go out like the thunder-flame: and the Lord God, sounding the war-horn, will go in the storm-winds of the South.

    15 The Lord of armies will be a cover for them; and they will overcome, crushing under foot the armed men; they will take their blood for drink like wine: they will be full like the sides of the altar.

    16 And the Lord their God will be their saviour in that day, giving them food like the flock of his people: for they will be like the jewels of a crown shining over his land.

  • Jer 48:40
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    40 For the Lord has said, See, he will come like an eagle in flight, stretching out his wings against Moab.

  • Zech 12:7-9
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    7 And the Lord will give salvation to the tents of Judah first, so that the glory of the family of David and the glory of the people of Jerusalem may not be greater than that of Judah.

    8 In that day the Lord will be a cover over the people of Jerusalem; and he who is feeble among them in that day will be as strong as David, and the family of David will be as God, as the angel of the Lord before them.

    9 And it will come about on that day that I will take in hand the destruction of all the nations who come against Jerusalem.

  • Ps 125:2
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    2 As the mountains are round about Jerusalem, so the Lord is round about his people, from this time and for ever.

  • Isa 4:5
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    5 And over every living-place on Mount Zion, all over all her meetings, the Lord will make a cloud and smoke by day, and the shining of a flaming fire by night, for over all, the glory of the Lord will be a cover and a tent;

  • Joel 3:16
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    16 Come quickly, all you nations round about, and get yourselves together there: make your strong ones come down, O Lord.

  • Zech 14:3
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    3 Then the Lord will go out and make war against those nations, as he did in the day of the fight.

  • 2 Kgs 19:34
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    34 For I will keep this town safe, for my honour, and for the honour of my servant David.

  • Zech 12:5
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    5 And the families of Judah will say in their hearts, The people of Jerusalem have their strength in the Lord of armies, their God.

  • Isa 62:6-7
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    6 I have put watchmen on your walls, O Jerusalem; they will not keep quiet day or night: you who are the Lord's recorders, take no rest,

    7 And give him no rest, till he puts Jerusalem in her place to be praised in the earth.

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    14 And the angel who was talking to me said to me, Let your voice be loud and say, These are the words of the Lord of armies: I am greatly moved about the fate of Jerusalem and of Zion.

  • Zech 2:5
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    5 And lifting up my eyes, I saw a man with a measuring-line in his hand.

  • Isa 33:4-5
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    4 And the goods taken in war will be got together like the massing of young locusts; men will be rushing on them like the rushing of locusts.

    5 The Lord is lifted up; his place is on high: he has made Zion full of righteousness and true religion.

  • Ps 91:4
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    4 You will be covered by his feathers; under his wings you will be safe: his good faith will be your salvation.

  • Zech 1:17
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    17 And again let your voice be loud and say, This is what the Lord of armies has said: My towns will again be overflowing with good things, and again the Lord will give comfort to Zion and take Jerusalem for himself.

  • Deut 32:11
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    11 As an eagle, teaching her young to make their flight, with her wings outstretched over them, takes them up on her strong feathers:

  • Jer 46:18
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    18 By my life, says the King, whose name is the Lord of armies, truly, like Tabor among the mountains and like Carmel by the sea, so will he come.

  • Jer 1:19
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    19 They will be fighting against you, but they will not overcome you: for I am with you, says the Lord, to give you salvation.

  • Isa 8:8
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    8 And it will come on into Judah; rushing on and overflowing, till the waters are up to the neck; *** and his outstretched wings will be covering the land from side to side: for God is with us.

  • Isa 52:12
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    12 For you will not go out suddenly, and you will not go in flight: for the Lord will go before you, and the God of Israel will come after you to keep you.

  • Zech 14:11
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    11 And there will be no more curse; but Jerusalem will be living without fear of danger.

  • Jer 7:33
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    33 And the bodies of this people will be food for the birds of heaven and for the beasts of the earth; and there will be no one to send them away.

  • Ps 91:11
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    11 For he will give you into the care of his angels to keep you wherever you go.

  • Jer 51:14
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    14 The Lord of armies has taken an oath by himself, saying, Truly, I will make you full with men as with locusts, and their voices will be loud against you.

  • Jer 31:23
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    23 So the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said, Again will these words be used in the land of Judah and in its towns, when I have let their fate be changed: May the blessing of the Lord be on you, O resting-place of righteousness, O holy mountain.

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    2 These are the words of the Lord of armies: I am angry about the fate of Zion, I am angry about her with great wrath.

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    6 And I will keep you and this town safe from the hands of the king of Assyria: and I will keep watch over this town.

  • Isa 42:13
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    13 The Lord will go out as a man of war, he will be moved to wrath like a fighting-man: his voice will be strong, he will give a loud cry; he will go against his attackers like a man of war.

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    18 For our breastplate is the Lord; and our king is the Holy One of Israel's.

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    8 Who are these coming like a cloud, like a flight of doves to their windows?

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    32 This very day he is stopping at Nob; he is shaking his hand against the mountain of the daughter of Zion, the hill of Jerusalem.

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    7 The angel of the Lord is ever watching over those who have fear of him, to keep them safe.

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    20 And I will make you a strong wall of brass to this people; they will be fighting against you, but they will not overcome you: for I am with you to keep you safe, says the Lord.

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    15 So in these days it is again my purpose to do good to Jerusalem and to the children of Judah: have no fear.

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    8 And I will put my forces in position round my house, so that there may be no coming and going: and no cruel master will again go through them: for now I have seen his trouble.

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    5 Then said Isaiah to Hezekiah, Give ear to the word of the Lord of armies: