Job 12:18
He looseth the bond of kings, and girdeth their loins with a girdle.
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- Ps 116:16 : 16 O LORD, truly I am thy servant; I am thy servant, and the son of thine handmaid: thou hast loosed my bonds.
- Dan 2:21 : 21 And he changeth the times and the seasons: he removeth kings, and setteth up kings: he giveth wisdom unto the wise, and knowledge to them that know understanding:
- Jer 52:31-34 : 31 And it came to pass in the seven and thirtieth year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, in the five and twentieth day of the month, that Evil-merodach king of Babylon in the first year of his reign lifted up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah, and brought him forth out of prison, 32 And spake kindly unto him, and set his throne above the throne of the kings that were with him in Babylon, 33 And changed his prison garments: and he did continually eat bread before him all the days of his life. 34 And for his diet, there was a continual diet given him of the king of Babylon, every day a portion until the day of his death, all the days of his life.
- 2 Chr 33:11-14 : 11 Wherefore the LORD brought upon them the captains of the host of the king of Assyria, which took Manasseh among the thorns, and bound him with fetters, and carried him to Babylon. 12 And when he was in affliction, he besought the LORD his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers, 13 And prayed unto him: and he was intreated of him, and heard his supplication, and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that the LORD he was God. 14 Now after this he built a wall without the city of David, on the west side of Gihon, in the valley, even to the entering in at the fish gate, and compassed about Ophel, and raised it up a very great height, and put captains of war in all the fenced cities of Judah.
- Rev 19:16 : 16 And he hath on his vestu and on his thigh a name written, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS.
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19 He leadeth princes away spoiled, and overthroweth the mighty.
20 He removeth away the speech of the trusty, and taketh away the understanding of the aged.
21 He poureth contempt upon princes, and weakeneth the strength of the mighty.
22 He discovereth deep things out of darkness, and bringeth out to light the shadow of death.
23 He increaseth the nations, and destroyeth them: he enlargeth the nations, and straiteneth them again.
24 He taketh away the heart of the chief of the people of the earth, and causeth them to wander in a wilderness where there is no way.
25 They grope in the dark without light, and he maketh them to stagger like a drunken man.
- Job 12:14-174 verses79%
14 Behold, he breaketh down, and it cannot be built again: he shutteth up a man, and there can be no opening.
15 Behold, he withholdeth the waters, and they dry up: also he sendeth them out, and they overturn the earth.
16 With him is strength and wisdom: the deceived and the deceiver are his.
17 He leadeth counsellers away spoiled, and maketh the judges fools.
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8 To bind their kings with chains, and their nobles with fetters of iron;
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8 And if they be bound in fetters, and be holden in cords of affliction;
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5 And righteousness shall be the girdle of his loins, and faithfulness the girdle of his reins.
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11 Because he hath loosed my cord, and afflicted me, they have also let loose the bridle before me.
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3 Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us.
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22 To bind his princes at his pleasure; and teach his senators wisdom.
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19 Let it be unto him as the garment which covereth him, and for a girdle wherewith he is girded continually.
- Jer 13:1-22 verses70%
1 Thus saith the LORD unto me, Go and get thee a linen girdle, and put it upon thy loins, and put it not in water.
2 So I got a girdle according to the word of the LORD, and put it on my loins.
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23 That bringeth the princes to nothing; he maketh the judges of the earth as vanity.
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12 And it is turned round about by his counsels: that they may do whatsoever he commandeth them upon the face of the world in the earth.
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20 The king sent and loosed him; even the ruler of the people, and let him go free.
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13 For now will I break his yoke from off thee, and will burst thy bonds in sunder.
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40 He poureth contempt upon princes, and causeth them to wander in the wilderness, where there is no way.
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4 The bows of the mighty men are broken, and they that stumbled are girded with strength.
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12 He shall cut off the spirit of princes: he is terrible to the kings of the earth.
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21 And he changeth the times and the seasons: he removeth kings, and setteth up kings: he giveth wisdom unto the wise, and knowledge to them that know understanding:
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15 Girded with girdles upon their loins, exceeding in dyed attire upon their heads, all of them princes to look to, after the manner of the Babylonians of Chaldea, the land of their nativity:
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24 He shall break in pieces mighty men without number, and set others in their stead.
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15 He delivereth the poor in his affliction, and openeth their ears in oppression.
16 Even so would he have removed thee out of the strait into a broad place, where there is no straitness; and that which should be set on thy table should be full of fatness.
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26 A wise king scattereth the wicked, and bringeth the wheel over them.
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21 And I will clothe him with thy robe, and strengthen him with thy girdle, and I will commit thy government into his hand: and he shall be a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to the house of Judah.
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6 Therefore pride compasseth them about as a chain; violence covereth them as a garment.
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4 Where the word of a king is, there is power: and who may say unto him, What doest thou?
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39 For thou hast girded me with strength unto the battle: thou hast subdued under me those that rose up against me.
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32 It is God that girdeth me with strength, and maketh my way perfect.
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11 He bindeth the floods from overflowing; and the thing that is hid bringeth he forth to light.
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18 By the great force of my disease is my garment changed: it bindeth me about as the collar of my coat.
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10 They cause him to go naked without clothing, and they take away the sheaf from the hungry;
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10 It is he that giveth salvation unto kings: who delivereth David his servant from the hurtful sword.
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7 Which executeth judgment for the oppressed: which giveth food to the hungry. The LORD looseth the prisoners:
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14 With kings and counsellers of the earth, which built desolate places for themselves;
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19 And I will drive thee from thy station, and from thy state shall he pull thee down.
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22 He draweth also the mighty with his power: he riseth up, and no man is sure of life.
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17 That made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed the cities thereof; that opened not the house of his prisoners?
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6 Then the king's countenance was changed, and his thoughts troubled him, so that the joints of his loins were loosed, and his knees smote one against another.
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8 For it shall come to pass in that day, saith the LORD of hosts, that I will break his yoke from off thy neck, and will burst thy bonds, and strangers shall no more serve themselves of him:
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13 His archers compass me round about, he cleaveth my reins asunder, and doth not spare; he poureth out my gall upon the ground.