Isaiah 21:17

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And the remaining number of the archers, the warriors of the sons of Kedar, will be few, for the LORD, the God of Israel, has spoken.

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  • Isa 1:20 : 20 But if you refuse and rebel, you will be devoured by the sword, for the mouth of the LORD has spoken.
  • Num 23:19 : 19 'God is not a man, that He should lie, nor a son of man, that He should change His mind. Does He speak and not act? Does He promise and not fulfill?'
  • Zech 1:6 : 6 But my words and my decrees, which I commanded my servants the prophets, did they not overtake your ancestors? So they repented and said, 'As the Lord of Hosts planned to do to us, according to our ways and our deeds, so He has done to us.'
  • Matt 24:35 : 35 Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away.
  • Ps 107:39 : 39 Yet they were diminished and brought low through oppression, calamity, and sorrow.
  • Isa 10:18-19 : 18 The glory of his forest and his fruitful fields will be consumed, both soul and body. It will be as when a sick man wastes away. 19 The remaining trees of his forest will be so few that a child could count them.
  • Isa 17:4-5 : 4 On that day the glory of Jacob will fade, and the fatness of his body will become lean. 5 It will be like a harvester gathering standing grain, and his arm harvesting the ears of grain; like one gleaning ears of grain in the Valley of Rephaim.
  • Jer 44:29 : 29 This will be the sign to you,’ declares the LORD, ‘that I will punish you in this place so that you may know that my words will surely stand against you for harm:

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  • Isa 21:15-16
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    15For they fled from swords, from drawn swords, from bent bows, and from the severity of battle.

    16For this is what the Lord said to me: 'In one year, as if it were the years of a hired worker, all the glory of Kedar will come to an end.'

  • 28Concerning Kedar and the kingdoms of Hazor, which Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, struck, the LORD says this: Rise up, attack Kedar, and plunder the people of the east.

  • Isa 17:2-4
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    2The cities of Aroer are abandoned; they will be places for flocks, where they will lie down, and no one will disturb them.

    3The fortress will disappear from Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus; the remnant of Aram will be like the glory of the Israelites, declares the LORD of Hosts.

    4On that day the glory of Jacob will fade, and the fatness of his body will become lean.

  • 21All his fugitives in all his troops will fall by the sword, and those who remain will be scattered to every direction. Then you will know that I, the LORD, have spoken.’

  • Isa 10:17-19
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    17The Light of Israel will become a fire, their Holy One a flame; it will burn and devour his thorns and briars in a single day.

    18The glory of his forest and his fruitful fields will be consumed, both soul and body. It will be as when a sick man wastes away.

    19The remaining trees of his forest will be so few that a child could count them.

  • 10Go across to the coasts of Cyprus and look, send to Kedar and observe closely; see if there has ever been anything like this.

  • 6Yet gleanings will remain, like an olive tree that is beaten: two or three berries at the top of the highest branch, four or five on its fruitful branches, declares the LORD, the God of Israel.

  • 17Gather up your belongings from the land, you who live under siege.

  • Isa 10:21-23
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    21A remnant will return—a remnant of Jacob—to the Mighty God.

    22Even though your people, O Israel, are like the sand of the sea, only a remnant will return. Destruction has been decreed, overwhelming and righteous.

    23For the Lord, the LORD of Hosts, will execute the decreed destruction throughout the whole land.

  • 16Their quiver is like an open grave; all of them are mighty warriors.

  • 7I will send destroyers against you, each with his weapons. They will cut down your choice cedars and throw them into the fire.

  • 17The word of the LORD came to me, saying:

  • 21Yes, this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says about the articles that remain in the house of the LORD, in the palace of the king of Judah, and in Jerusalem:

  • 37The peaceful pastures will be silent because of the LORD's fierce anger.

  • 3For this is what the Lord God says: The city that marches out a thousand will have a hundred left, and the one that goes out a hundred will have ten left for the house of Israel.

  • 2The scatterer has come against your face. Guard the fortress, watch the road, strengthen your loins, muster all your strength!

  • 15Look, I have made you small among the nations, despised among mankind.

  • Jer 50:29-30
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    29Summon archers against Babylon, all who draw the bow. Encamp around her on every side, and let no one escape. Repay her according to her deeds; do to her as she has done. For she has defied the LORD, the Holy One of Israel.

    30Therefore, her young men will fall in her streets, and all her soldiers will perish on that day, declares the LORD.

  • 28I will make the land a desolate waste, and its proud strength will come to an end. The mountains of Israel will become desolate, with no one passing through.

  • 13This is a prophecy about Arabia: You will camp in the thickets of Arabia, O caravans of Dedanites.

  • 31For out of Jerusalem will come a remnant, and survivors from Mount Zion. The zeal of the Lord of Hosts will accomplish this.

  • 10O my threshed people and my people crushed on the threshing floor, what I have heard from the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, I have declared to you.

  • 12This is what the Lord says: 'Although they have allies and are numerous, they will be destroyed and pass away. Although I have afflicted you, Judah, I will afflict you no more.'

  • 9In that day, their strong cities will be like the forsaken places of the wooded heights and hilltops that were abandoned because of the Israelites, and there will be desolation.

  • 32The river crossings have been seized, the marshes have been set on fire, and the soldiers are terrified.

  • 3Do not let the archer bend his bow or put on his armor. Do not spare her young men; completely destroy her entire army.

  • 17the LORD spoke to me, saying,

  • 16Even the bravest of warriors will flee naked on that day,' declares the LORD.

  • 2This is what the LORD says: The people who survived the sword found grace in the wilderness as Israel journeyed to find rest.

  • 13The land will become desolate because of its inhabitants, due to the fruit of their deeds.

  • 26Therefore, her young men will fall in her streets, and all the warriors will be silenced on that day, declares the LORD of Hosts.

  • 3I will strike your bow out of your left hand and cause your arrows to fall from your right hand.

  • 27The LORD will scatter you among the peoples, and you will be left few in number among the nations where the LORD will lead you.

  • 13Therefore this is what the Sovereign LORD says: I will stretch out my hand against Edom and cut off both man and beast from it. I will make it a wasteland from Teman to Dedan, and they will fall by the sword.

  • 36Only if these decrees vanish from my sight, declares the LORD, will the descendants of Israel ever cease to be a nation before me.

  • 14But now the LORD has spoken, saying: In three years, as precisely as the years of a hired worker, the glory of Moab, along with its great multitude, will be brought into contempt. Only a small and insignificant remnant will remain, not mighty at all.

  • 14I will abandon the remnant of My inheritance and give them into the hands of their enemies. They will become plunder and spoil for all their enemies,

  • 13Then the survivors came down to the nobles; the people of the Lord came down to me against the mighty.

  • 32For a remnant will go out from Jerusalem, and survivors from Mount Zion. The zeal of the LORD of Hosts will accomplish this.

  • 17The word of the LORD came to me, saying:

  • 3and say to the southern forest, 'Listen to the word of the LORD. This is what the Sovereign LORD says: Behold, I am about to set you ablaze, and it will devour every green tree and every dry tree within you. The blazing flame will not be quenched, and every face from the south to the north will be scorched by it.

  • 8Then Assyria will fall by a sword not wielded by man, and a sword not wielded by humans will devour them. They will flee from the sword, and their young men will be put into forced labor.