Isaiah 41:12

King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

Thou shalt seek them, and shalt not find them, even them that contended with thee: they that war against thee shall be as nothing, and as a thing of nought.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 37:35-36 : 35 I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree. 36 Yet he passed away, and, lo, he was not: yea, I sought him, but he could not be found.
  • Job 20:7-9 : 7 Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung: they which have seen him shall say, Where is he? 8 He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night. 9 The eye also which saw him shall see him no more; neither shall his place any more behold him.
  • Isa 17:14 : 14 And behold at eveningtide trouble; and before the morning he is not. This is the portion of them that spoil us, and the lot of them that rob us.

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  • Isa 41:10-11
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    10 Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness.

    11 Behold, all they that were incensed against thee shall be ashamed and confounded: they shall be as nothing; and they that strive with thee shall perish.

  • 19 And they shall fight against thee; but they shall not prevail against thee; for I am with thee, saith the LORD, to deliver thee.

  • Lev 26:37-38
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    37 And they shall fall one upon another, as it were before a sword, when none pursueth: and ye shall have no power to stand before your enemies.

    38 And ye shall perish among the heathen, and the land of your enemies shall eat you up.

  • 15 Behold, they shall surely gather together, but not by me: whosoever shall gather together against thee shall fall for thy sake.

  • 13 For I the LORD thy God will hold thy right hand, saying unto thee, Fear not; I will help thee.

  • Ps 21:8-9
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    8 Thine hand shall find out all thine enemies: thy right hand shall find out those that hate thee.

    9 Thou shalt make them as a fiery oven in the time of thine anger: the LORD shall swallow them up in his wrath, and the fire shall devour them.

  • 21 I will make thee a terror, and thou shalt be no more: though thou be sought for, yet shalt thou never be found again, saith the Lord GOD.

  • 25 Destruction cometh; and they shall seek peace, and there shall be none.

  • 11 But the LORD is with me as a mighty terrible one: therefore my persecutors shall stumble, and they shall not prevail: they shall be greatly ashamed; for they shall not prosper: their everlasting confusion shall never be forgotten.

  • 7 And ye shall chase your enemies, and they shall fall before you by the sword.

  • 20 And I will make thee unto this people a fenced brasen wall: and they shall fight against thee, but they shall not prevail against thee: for I am with thee to save thee and to deliver thee, saith the LORD.

  • 22 They that hate thee shall be clothed with shame; and the dwelling place of the wicked shall come to nought.

  • 16 Therefore all they that devour thee shall be devoured; and all thine adversaries, every one of them, shall go into captivity; and they that spoil thee shall be a spoil, and all that prey upon thee will I give for a prey.

  • 40 They shall also bring up a company against thee, and they shall stone thee with stones, and thrust thee through with their swords.

  • 12 I will declare thy righteousness, and thy works; for they shall not profit thee.

  • Isa 47:14-15
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    14 Behold, they shall be as stubble; the fire shall burn them; they shall not deliver themselves from the power of the flame: there shall not be a coal to warm at, nor fire to sit before it.

    15 Thus shall they be unto thee with whom thou hast laboured, even thy merchants, from thy youth: they shall wander every one to his quarter; none shall save thee.

  • 12 And they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east, they shall run to and fro to seek the word of the LORD, and shall not find it.

  • 17 And I will set my face against you, and ye shall be slain before your enemies: they that hate you shall reign over you; and ye shall fe when none pursueth you.

  • 12 They shall call the nobles thereof to the kingdom, but none shall be there, and all her princes shall be nothing.

  • 21 For now ye are nothing; ye see my casting down, and are afraid.

  • Deut 7:23-24
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    23 But the LORD thy God shall liver them unto thee, and shall stroy them with a mighty struction, until they be stroyed.

    24 And he shall liver their kings into thine hand, and thou shalt stroy their name from unr heaven: there shall no man be able to stand before thee, until thou have stroyed them.

  • 5 Moreover the multitude of thy strangers shall be like small dust, and the multitude of the terrible ones shall be as chaff that passeth away: yea, it shall be at an instant suddenly.

  • 22 Ye shall not fear them: for the LORD your God he shall fight for you.

  • 24 Behold, ye are of nothing, and your work of nought: an abomination is he that chooseth you.

  • 5 And they shall be as mighty men, which tread down their enemies in the mire of the streets in the battle: and they shall fight, because the LORD is with them, and the riders on horses shall be confounded.

  • 12 For the nation and kingdom that will not serve thee shall perish; yea, those nations shall be utterly wasted.

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    41 Thou hast also given me the necks of mine enemies, that I might destroy them that hate me.

    42 They looked, but there was none to save; even unto the LORD, but he answered them not.

  • 14 The LORD shall fight for you, and ye shall hold your peace.

  • 9 Thine hand shall be lifted up upon thine adversaries, and all thine enemies shall be cut off.

  • 6 Thou shalt not seek their peace nor their prosperity all thy days for ever.

  • 17 All nations before him are as nothing; and they are counted to him less than nothing, and vanity.

  • 28 Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me:

  • 12 And if it will make no peace with thee, but will make war against thee, then thou shalt besiege it:

  • 5 There were they in great fear, where no fear was: for God hath scattered the bones of him that encampeth against thee: thou hast put them to shame, because God hath despised them.

  • 25 The LORD shall cause thee to be smitten before thine enemies: thou shalt go out one way against them, and flee seven ways before them: and shalt be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth.

  • 5 And seekest thou great things for thyself? seek them not: for, behold, I will bring evil upon all flesh, saith the LORD: but thy life will I give unto thee for a prey in all places whither thou goest.

  • 7 And in the greatness of thine cellency thou hast overthrown them that rose up against thee: thou sentest forth thy wrath, which consumed them as stubble.

  • 26 And they shall not take of thee a stone for a corner, nor a stone for foundations; but thou shalt be desolate for ever, saith the LORD.

  • 11 LORD, when thy hand is lifted up, they will not see: but they shall see, and be ashamed for their envy at the people; yea, the fire of thine enemies shall devour them.

  • 19 All they that know thee among the people shall be astonished at thee: thou shalt be a terror, and never shalt thou be any more.

  • 17 Thy children shall make haste; thy destroyers and they that made thee waste shall go forth of thee.

  • 14 They are dead, they shall not live; they are deceased, they shall not rise: therefore hast thou visited and destroyed them, and made all their memory to perish.

  • 9 And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem.

  • 9 What do ye imagine against the LORD? he will make an utter end: affliction shall not rise up the second time.