Deuteronomy 32:39

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The Vindication of the Lord“See now that I, indeed I, am he!” says the LORD,“and there is no other god besides me. I kill and give life, I smash and I heal, and none can resist my power.

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  • Hos 6:1 : 1 Superficial Repentance Breeds False Assurance of God’s Forgiveness“Come on! Let’s return to the LORD! He himself has torn us to pieces, but he will heal us! He has injured us, but he will bandage our wounds!
  • 1 Sam 2:6 : 6 The LORD both kills and gives life; he brings down to the grave and raises up.
  • Job 5:18 : 18 For he wounds, but he also bandages; he strikes, but his hands also heal.
  • Isa 45:5 : 5 I am the LORD, I have no peer, there is no God but me. I arm you for battle, even though you do not recognize me.
  • Isa 45:22 : 22 Turn to me so you can be delivered, all you who live in the earth’s remote regions! For I am God, and I have no peer.
  • Isa 46:4 : 4 Even when you are old, I will take care of you, even when you have gray hair, I will carry you. I made you and I will support you; I will carry you and rescue you.
  • Isa 41:4 : 4 Who acts and carries out decrees? Who summons the successive generations from the beginning? I, the LORD, am present at the very beginning, and at the very end– I am the one.
  • Isa 43:13 : 13 From this day forward I am he; no one can deliver from my power; I will act, and who can prevent it?”
  • 2 Kgs 5:7 : 7 When the king of Israel read the letter, he tore his clothes and said,“Am I God? Can I kill or restore life? Why does he ask me to cure a man of his skin disease? Certainly you must see that he is looking for an excuse to fight me!”
  • Ps 68:20 : 20 Our God is a God who delivers; the LORD, the sovereign Lord, can rescue from death.
  • Ps 50:22 : 22 Carefully consider this, you who reject God! Otherwise I will rip you to shreds and no one will be able to rescue you.
  • Isa 45:18 : 18 For this is what the LORD says, the one who created the sky– he is the true God, the one who formed the earth and made it; he established it, he did not create it without order, he formed it to be inhabited–“I am the LORD, I have no peer.
  • Isa 48:12 : 12 Listen to me, O Jacob, Israel, whom I summoned! I am the one; I am present at the very beginning and at the very end.
  • Rev 1:17-18 : 17 When I saw him I fell down at his feet as though I were dead, but he placed his right hand on me and said:“Do not be afraid! I am the first and the last, 18 and the one who lives! I was dead, but look, now I am alive– forever and ever– and I hold the keys of death and of Hades!
  • Rev 2:8 : 8 To the Church in Smyrna“To the angel of the church in Smyrna write the following:“This is the solemn pronouncement of the one who is the first and the last, the one who was dead, but came to life:
  • Mic 5:8 : 8 Those survivors from Jacob will live among the nations, in the midst of many peoples. They will be like a lion among the animals of the forest, like a young lion among the flocks of sheep, which attacks when it passes through; it rips its prey and there is no one to stop it.
  • John 8:24 : 24 Thus I told you that you will die in your sins. For unless you believe that I am he, you will die in your sins.”
  • Heb 1:12 : 12 and like a robe you will fold them up and like a garment they will be changed, but you are the same and your years will never run out.”
  • Rev 1:11 : 11 saying:“Write in a book what you see and send it to the seven churches– to Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, and Laodicea.”
  • Deut 4:35 : 35 You have been taught that the LORD alone is God– there is no other besides him.
  • Ps 102:27 : 27 But you remain; your years do not come to an end.
  • Job 10:7 : 7 although you know that I am not guilty, and that there is no one who can deliver out of your hand?

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    40For I raise up my hand to heaven, and say,‘As surely as I live forever,

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  • Isa 43:10-13
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    10You are my witnesses,” says the LORD,“my servant whom I have chosen, so that you may consider and believe in me, and understand that I am he. No god was formed before me, and none will outlive me.

    11I, I am the LORD, and there is no deliverer besides me.

    12I decreed and delivered and proclaimed, and there was no other god among you. You are my witnesses,” says the LORD,“that I am God.

    13From this day forward I am he; no one can deliver from my power; I will act, and who can prevent it?”

  • Isa 45:5-7
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    5I am the LORD, I have no peer, there is no God but me. I arm you for battle, even though you do not recognize me.

    6I do this so people will recognize from east to west that there is no God but me; I am the LORD, I have no peer.

    7I am the one who forms light and creates darkness; the one who brings about peace and creates calamity. I am the LORD, who accomplishes all these things.

  • Deut 32:38
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    38who ate the best of their sacrifices, and drank the wine of their drink offerings? Let them rise and help you; let them be your refuge!

  • Isa 45:21-22
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    21Tell me! Present the evidence! Let them consult with one another! Who predicted this in the past? Who announced it beforehand? Was it not I, the LORD? I have no peer, there is no God but me, a God who vindicates and delivers; there is none but me.

    22Turn to me so you can be delivered, all you who live in the earth’s remote regions! For I am God, and I have no peer.

  • Hos 13:4
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    4Well-Fed Israel Will Be Fed to Wild Animals But I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of Egypt. Therefore, you must not acknowledge any God but me; except me there is no Savior.

  • Isa 46:9
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    9Remember what I accomplished in antiquity! Truly I am God, I have no peer; I am God, and there is none like me,

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    6The Absurdity of Idolatry This is what the LORD, Israel’s king, says, their protector, the LORD of Heaven’s Armies:“I am the first and I am the last, there is no God but me.

    7Who is like me? Let him make his claim! Let him announce it and explain it to me– since I established an ancient people– let them announce future events!

    8Don’t panic! Don’t be afraid! Did I not tell you beforehand and decree it? You are my witnesses! Is there any God but me? There is no other sheltering rock; I know of none.

  • Ezek 28:9
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    9Will you still say,“I am a god,” before the one who kills you– though you are a man and not a god– when you are in the power of those who wound you?

  • 2 Chr 32:13-15
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    13Are you not aware of what I and my predecessors have done to all the nations of the surrounding lands? Have the gods of the surrounding lands actually been able to rescue their lands from my power?

    14Who among all the gods of these nations whom my predecessors annihilated was able to rescue his people from my power, that your God would be able to rescue you from my power?

    15Now don’t let Hezekiah deceive you or mislead you like this. Don’t believe him, for no god of any nation or kingdom has been able to rescue his people from my power or the power of my predecessors. So how can your gods rescue you from my power?’”

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    6The LORD both kills and gives life; he brings down to the grave and raises up.

  • Job 5:18
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    18For he wounds, but he also bandages; he strikes, but his hands also heal.

  • 1 Sam 24:12
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    12May the LORD judge between the two of us, and may the LORD vindicate me over you, but my hand will not be against you.

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    7although you know that I am not guilty, and that there is no one who can deliver out of your hand?

  • Deut 4:35
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    35You have been taught that the LORD alone is God– there is no other besides him.

  • Ezek 20:33
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    33As surely as I live, declares the Sovereign LORD, with a powerful hand and an outstretched arm, and with an outpouring of rage, I will be king over you.

  • Isa 63:5
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    10Please stop wounding me! You have almost beaten me to death!

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    22Carefully consider this, you who reject God! Otherwise I will rip you to shreds and no one will be able to rescue you.

  • Isa 41:13
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    13For I am the LORD your God, the one who takes hold of your right hand, who says to you,‘Don’t be afraid, I am helping you.’

  • Job 41:10
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    10Is it not fierce when it is awakened? Who is he, then, who can stand before it?

  • Isa 50:2
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    2Why does no one challenge me when I come? Why does no one respond when I call? Is my hand too weak to deliver you? Do I lack the power to rescue you? Look, with a mere shout I can dry up the sea; I can turn streams into a desert, so the fish rot away and die from lack of water.

  • Isa 42:8
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    8The Lord Intervenes I am the LORD! That is my name! I will not share my glory with anyone else, or the praise due me with idols.

  • Exod 9:14-15
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    14For this time I will send all my plagues on your very self and on your servants and your people, so that you may know that there is no one like me in all the earth.

    15For by now I could have stretched out my hand and struck you and your people with plague, and you would have been destroyed from the earth.

  • Ezek 22:14
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    14Can your heart endure, or can your hands be strong when I deal with you? I, the LORD, have spoken, and I will do it!

  • Ezek 39:21
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    21“I will display my majesty among the nations. All the nations will witness the judgment I have executed, and the power I have exhibited among them.

  • Ps 18:32
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    32The one true God gives me strength; he removes the obstacles in my way.

  • Ps 118:17
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    17I will not die, but live, and I will proclaim what the LORD has done.

  • Isa 37:20
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  • Isa 45:18
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  • Isa 40:25
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