Isaiah 5:28

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Their arrows are sharp, and all their bows are drawn. The hooves of their horses are like flint, and their wheels like a whirlwind.

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  • Ps 45:5 : 5 In your majesty ride forth victoriously on behalf of truth, humility, and righteousness; let your right hand perform awesome deeds.
  • Ps 120:4 : 4 Sharp arrows of a warrior, along with burning coals of the broom tree.
  • Isa 21:1 : 1 This is a prophecy about the wilderness by the sea: Like whirlwinds sweeping through the Negev, it comes from the desert, from a dreadful land.
  • Jer 5:16 : 16 Their quiver is like an open grave; all of them are mighty warriors.
  • Jer 47:3 : 3 At the sound of galloping hooves of mighty horses, at the rumbling of their chariots and the roar of their wheels, fathers will not turn to help their children, for their hands will be exhausted.
  • Ezek 21:9-9 : 9 Because I will cut off both the righteous and the wicked, My sword will go out from its sheath against all flesh, from the south to the north. 10 All humanity will know that I, the LORD, have drawn My sword from its sheath, and it will not return again. 11 And you, son of man, groan with the breaking of your heart and with bitterness. Sigh in their sight.
  • Mic 4:13 : 13 Rise and thresh, Daughter Zion, for I will make your horn like iron and your hooves like bronze, and you will crush many nations. You will dedicate their ill-gotten gains to the LORD, their wealth to the Lord of all the earth.
  • Nah 2:3-4 : 3 For the LORD has restored the glory of Jacob, as the glory of Israel. Even though plunderers have ravaged them and destroyed their vines. 4 The shields of his warriors are stained red; his mighty men are dressed in scarlet. The chariots flash with fire as they are made ready, and the spears of cypress are brandished.
  • Nah 3:2 : 2 The sound of whips, the clatter of wheels, galloping horses, and jolting chariots.
  • Judg 5:22 : 22 Then the hoofs of horses hammered—galloping, galloping of their mighty steeds.
  • Ps 7:12-13 : 12 God is a righteous judge and a God who is angry every day. 13 If a person does not repent, He will sharpen His sword; He has bent His bow and made it ready.

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