Job 34:24

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He shatters the great without inquiry, and sets up others in their place.

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  • Ps 2:9 : 9 You will break them with an iron scepter; you will smash them like a potter’s jar!’”
  • Ps 113:7-8 : 7 He raises the poor from the dirt, and lifts up the needy from the garbage pile, 8 that he might seat him with princes, with the princes of his people.
  • Dan 2:21 : 21 He changes times and seasons, deposing some kings and establishing others. He gives wisdom to the wise; he imparts knowledge to those with understanding;
  • Dan 2:34-35 : 34 You were watching as a stone was cut out, but not by human hands. It struck the statue on its iron and clay feet, breaking them in pieces. 35 Then the iron, clay, bronze, silver, and gold were broken in pieces without distinction and became like chaff from the summer threshing floors that the wind carries away. Not a trace of them could be found. But the stone that struck the statue became a large mountain that filled the entire earth.
  • Dan 2:44-45 : 44 In the days of those kings the God of heaven will raise up an everlasting kingdom that will not be destroyed and a kingdom that will not be left to another people. It will break in pieces and bring about the demise of all these kingdoms. But it will stand forever. 45 You saw that a stone was cut from a mountain, but not by human hands; it smashed the iron, bronze, clay, silver, and gold into pieces. The great God has made known to the king what will occur in the future. The dream is certain, and its interpretation is reliable.”
  • Dan 5:28-31 : 28 As for peres– your kingdom is divided and given over to the Medes and Persians.” 29 Then, on Belshazzar’s orders, Daniel was clothed in purple, a golden collar was placed around his neck, and he was proclaimed third ruler in the kingdom. 30 And in that very night Belshazzar, the Babylonian king, was killed. 31 (6:1) So Darius the Mede took control of the kingdom when he was about sixty-two years old.
  • Jer 51:20-23 : 20 “Babylon, you are my war club, my weapon for battle. I used you to smash nations. I used you to destroy kingdoms. 21 I used you to smash horses and their riders. I used you to smash chariots and their drivers. 22 I used you to smash men and women. I used you to smash old men and young men. I used you to smash young men and young women. 23 I used you to smash shepherds and their flocks. I used you to smash farmers and their teams of oxen. I used you to smash governors and leaders.”
  • Ps 72:4 : 4 He will defend the oppressed among the people; he will deliver the children of the poor and crush the oppressor.
  • Ps 94:5 : 5 O LORD, they crush your people; they oppress the nation that belongs to you.
  • 1 Sam 2:30-36 : 30 Therefore the LORD, the God of Israel, says,‘I really did say that your house and your ancestor’s house would serve me forever.’ But now the LORD says,‘May it never be! For I will honor those who honor me, but those who despise me will be cursed! 31 In fact, days are coming when I will remove your strength and the strength of your father’s house. There will not be an old man in your house! 32 You will see trouble in my dwelling place! Israel will experience blessings, but there will not be an old man in your house for all time. 33 Any man of yours that I do not cut off from my altar, I will cause his eyes to fail and will cause him grief. All of those born to your family will die by the sword of man. 34 This will be a confirming sign for you that will be fulfilled through your two sons, Hophni and Phinehas: in a single day they both will die! 35 Then I will raise up for myself a faithful priest. He will do what is in my heart and soul. I will build for him a lasting dynasty and he will serve my chosen one for all time. 36 Everyone who remains in your house will come to bow before him for a little money and for a scrap of bread. Each will say,‘Assign me to a priestly task so I can eat a scrap of bread.’”
  • 1 Sam 15:28 : 28 Samuel said to him,“The LORD has torn the kingdom of Israel from you this day and has given it to one of your colleagues who is better than you!
  • 1 Kgs 14:7-8 : 7 Go, tell Jeroboam,‘This is what the LORD God of Israel has said:“I raised you up from among the people and made you ruler over my people Israel. 8 I tore the kingdom away from the Davidic dynasty and gave it to you. But you are not like my servant David, who kept my commandments and followed me wholeheartedly by doing only what I approve.
  • 1 Kgs 14:14 : 14 The LORD will raise up a king over Israel who will cut off Jeroboam’s dynasty. It is ready to happen!
  • Job 12:19 : 19 He leads priests away stripped and overthrows the potentates.
  • Job 19:2 : 2 “How long will you torment me and crush me with your words?

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  • Job 34:25-26
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    25 Therefore, he knows their deeds, he overthrows them in the night and they are crushed.

    26 He strikes them for their wickedness, in a place where people can see,

  • 23 For he does not still consider a person, that he should come before God in judgment.

  • Job 12:19-21
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    19 He leads priests away stripped and overthrows the potentates.

    20 He deprives the trusted advisers of speech and takes away the discernment of elders.

    21 He pours contempt on noblemen and disarms the powerful.

  • Job 12:23-24
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    23 He makes nations great, and destroys them; he extends the boundaries of nations and disperses them.

    24 He deprives the leaders of the earth of their understanding; he makes them wander in a trackless desert waste.

  • 14 If he tears down, it cannot be rebuilt; if he imprisons a person, there is no escape.

  • 7 For God is the judge! He brings one down and exalts another.

  • 20 In a moment they die, in the middle of the night, people are shaken and they pass away. The mighty are removed effortlessly.

  • 14 He breaks through against me, time and time again; he rushes against me like a warrior.

  • 34 ל(Lamed) To crush underfoot all the earth’s prisoners,

  • 14 It shatters in pieces like a clay jar, so shattered to bits that none of it can be salvaged. Among its fragments one cannot find a shard large enough to scoop a hot coal from a fire or to skim off water from a cistern.”

  • Job 24:22-23
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    22 But God drags off the mighty by his power; when God rises up against him, he has no faith in his life.

    23 God may let them rest in a feeling of security, but he is constantly watching all their ways.

  • 25 When it rises up, the mighty are terrified, at its thrashing about they withdraw.

  • 4 He will defend the oppressed among the people; he will deliver the children of the poor and crush the oppressor.

  • Jer 51:22-23
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    22 I used you to smash men and women. I used you to smash old men and young men. I used you to smash young men and young women.

    23 I used you to smash shepherds and their flocks. I used you to smash farmers and their teams of oxen. I used you to smash governors and leaders.”

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    9 You will break them with an iron scepter; you will smash them like a potter’s jar!’”

  • 23 He is the one who reduces rulers to nothing; he makes the earth’s leaders insignificant.

  • Job 9:5-6
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    5 He who removes mountains suddenly, who overturns them in his anger;

    6 he who shakes the earth out of its place so that its pillars tremble;

  • 6 He executes judgment against the nations; he fills the valleys with corpses; he shatters their heads over the vast battlefield.

  • 24 His power will be great, but it will not be by his strength alone. He will cause terrible destruction. He will be successful in what he undertakes. He will destroy powerful people and the people of the holy ones.

  • 9 He will direct the blows of his battering rams against your walls and tear down your towers with his weapons.

  • 9 On the flinty rock man has set to work with his hand; he has overturned mountains at their bases.

  • 2 Men move boundary stones; they seize the flock and pasture them.

  • 11 They sweep by like the wind and pass on. But the one who considers himself a god will be held guilty.”

  • 24 Distress and anguish terrify him; they prevail against him like a king ready to launch an attack,

  • 9 He flashes destruction down upon the strong so that destruction overwhelms the fortified places.)

  • 12 The fortified city(along with the very tops of your walls) he will knock down, he will bring it down, he will throw it down to the dusty ground.

  • 12 I was in peace, and he has shattered me. He has seized me by the neck and crushed me. He has made me his target;

  • 14 He smashed the sacred pillars to bits, cut down the Asherah poles, and filled those shrines with human bones.

  • 39 He will attack mighty fortresses, aided by a foreign deity. To those who recognize him he will grant considerable honor. He will place them in authority over many people, and he will parcel out land for a price.

  • 4 The bows of warriors are shattered, but those who stumbled have taken on strength.

  • 5 O LORD, they crush your people; they oppress the nation that belongs to you.

  • 15 Therefore, his disaster will come suddenly; in an instant he will be broken, and there will be no remedy.

  • 20 You overpower him once for all, and he departs; you change his appearance and send him away.

  • 17 he who crushes me with a tempest, and multiplies my wounds for no reason.

  • 16 For he shattered the bronze gates, and hacked through the iron bars.

  • 14 For he fulfills his decree against me, and many such things are his plans.

  • 24 If a land has been given into the hand of a wicked man, he covers the faces of its judges; if it is not he, then who is it?

  • 24 In a time of prosperity for the most productive areas of the province he will come and accomplish what neither his fathers nor their fathers accomplished. He will distribute loot, spoils, and property to his followers, and he will devise plans against fortified cities, but not for long.

  • 10 The LORD shatters his adversaries; he thunders against them from the heavens. The LORD executes judgment to the ends of the earth. He will strengthen his king and exalt the power of his anointed one.”

  • 17 He leads counselors away stripped and makes judges into fools.

  • 22 It hurls itself against him without pity as he flees headlong from its power.

  • 7 His vigorous steps are restricted, and his own counsel throws him down.

  • 27 A total ruin I will make it! It will come to an end when the one arrives to whom I have assigned judgment.’