Psalms 2:9

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Rev 12:5 : 5 So the woman gave birth to a son, a male child, who is going to rule over all the nations with an iron rod. Her child was suddenly caught up to God and to his throne,
  • Ps 89:23 : 23 I will crush his enemies before him; I will strike down those who hate him.
  • Rev 2:26-27 : 26 And to the one who conquers and who continues in my deeds until the end, I will give him authority over the nations– 27 he will rule them with an iron rod and like clay jars he will break them to pieces,
  • Ps 110:5-6 : 5 O Lord, at your right hand he strikes down kings in the day he unleashes his anger. 6 He executes judgment against the nations; he fills the valleys with corpses; he shatters their heads over the vast battlefield.
  • Isa 30:14 : 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.”
  • Rev 19:15 : 15 From his mouth extends a sharp sword, so that with it he can strike the nations. He will rule them with an iron rod, and he stomps the winepress of the furious wrath of God, the All-Powerful.
  • Ps 21:8-9 : 8 You prevail over all your enemies; your power is too great for those who hate you. 9 You burn them up like a fiery furnace when you appear; the LORD angrily devours them; the fire consumes them.
  • Jer 19:11 : 11 Tell them the LORD of Heaven’s Armies says,‘I will do just as Jeremiah has done. I will smash this nation and this city as though it were a potter’s vessel which is broken beyond repair. The dead will be buried here in Topheth until there is no more room to bury them.’
  • Dan 2:44 : 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.
  • Matt 21:44 : 44 The one who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces, and the one on whom it falls will be crushed.”
  • Isa 60:12 : 12 Indeed, nations or kingdoms that do not serve you will perish; such nations will definitely be destroyed.

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  • Rev 2:27
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    27he will rule them with an iron rod and like clay jars he will break them to pieces,

  • Ps 2:10
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    10So now, you kings, do what is wise; you rulers of the earth, submit to correction!

  • Ps 2:8
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    8Ask me, and I will give you the nations as your inheritance, the ends of the earth as your personal property.

  • Ps 149:7-8
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    7in order to take revenge on the nations, and punish foreigners.

    8They bind their kings in chains, and their nobles in iron shackles,

  • Isa 30:13-14
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    13So this sin will become your downfall. You will be like a high wall that bulges and cracks and is ready to collapse; it crumbles suddenly, in a flash.

    14It 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.”

  • Jer 51:20-23
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    20“Babylon, you are my war club, my weapon for battle. I used you to smash nations. I used you to destroy kingdoms.

    21I used you to smash horses and their riders. I used you to smash chariots and their drivers.

    22I 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.

    23I 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.”

  • Dan 2:40
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    40Then there will be a fourth kingdom, one strong like iron. Just like iron breaks in pieces and shatters everything, and as iron breaks in pieces all of these metals, so it will break in pieces and crush the others.

  • 1 Sam 2:10
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    10The 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.”

  • Ps 110:2
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    2The LORD extends your dominion from Zion. Rule in the midst of your enemies!

  • Isa 14:5
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    5The LORD has broken the club of the wicked, the scepter of rulers.

  • Ps 2:2-3
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    2The kings of the earth form a united front; the rulers collaborate against the LORD and his anointed king.

    3They say,“Let’s tear off the shackles they’ve put on us! Let’s free ourselves from their ropes!”

  • Ps 18:42
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    42I grind them as fine windblown dust; I beat them underfoot like clay in the streets.

  • 2 Sam 22:43
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    43I grind them as fine as the dust of the ground; I crush them and stomp on them like clay in the streets.

  • Jer 19:10-11
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    10The LORD continued,“Now break the jar in front of those who have come here with you.

    11Tell them the LORD of Heaven’s Armies says,‘I will do just as Jeremiah has done. I will smash this nation and this city as though it were a potter’s vessel which is broken beyond repair. The dead will be buried here in Topheth until there is no more room to bury them.’

  • Jer 15:12
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    12Can you people who are like iron and bronze break that iron fist from the north?

  • Exod 15:6-7
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    6Your right hand, O LORD, was majestic in power, your right hand, O LORD, shattered the enemy.

    7In the abundance of your majesty you have overthrown those who rise up against you. You sent forth your wrath; it consumed them like stubble.

  • Dan 2:33-35
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    33Its legs were of iron; its feet were partly of iron and partly of clay.

    34You 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.

    35Then 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.

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    9How blessed will be the one who grabs your babies and smashes them on a rock!

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    24He shatters the great without inquiry, and sets up others in their place.

  • Isa 9:4
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    4For their oppressive yoke and the club that strikes their shoulders, the cudgel the oppressor uses on them, you have shattered, as in the day of Midian’s defeat.

  • Mic 4:13
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    13“Get up and thresh, Daughter Zion! For I will give you iron horns; I will give you bronze hooves, and you will crush many nations.” You will devote to the LORD the spoils you take from them, and dedicate their wealth to the sovereign Ruler of the whole earth.

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    10You crushed the Proud One and killed it; with your strong arm you scattered your enemies.

  • Lev 26:19
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    19I will break your strong pride and make your sky like iron and your land like bronze.

  • Ps 89:39-40
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    39You have repudiated your covenant with your servant; you have thrown his crown to the ground.

    40You have broken down all his walls; you have made his strongholds a heap of ruins.

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

  • Ps 10:15
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    15Break the arm of the wicked and evil man! Hold him accountable for his wicked deeds, which he thought you would not discover.

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    18Surely you put them in slippery places; you bring them down to ruin.

  • Ps 21:9
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    9You burn them up like a fiery furnace when you appear; the LORD angrily devours them; the fire consumes them.

  • Ezek 16:40
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    40They will summon a mob who will stone you and hack you in pieces with their swords.

  • Isa 41:15
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    15“Look, I am making you like a sharp threshing sledge, new and double-edged. You will thresh the mountains and crush them; you will make the hills like straw.

  • Ps 48:7
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    7With an east wind you shatter the large ships.

  • Ps 58:9
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    9Before the kindling is even placed under your pots, he will sweep it away along with both the raw and cooked meat.

  • Nah 1:13
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    13And now, I will break Assyria’s yoke bar from your neck; I will tear apart the shackles that are on you.”

  • Ps 110:5
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    5O Lord, at your right hand he strikes down kings in the day he unleashes his anger.

  • Dan 2:42
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    42In that the toes of the feet were partly of iron and partly of clay, the latter stages of this kingdom will be partly strong and partly fragile.

  • Matt 21:44
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    44The one who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces, and the one on whom it falls will be crushed.”

  • Ps 107:16
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    16For he shattered the bronze gates, and hacked through the iron bars.

  • Isa 22:19
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    19I will remove you from your office; you will be thrown down from your position.

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    5Then he angrily speaks to them and terrifies them in his rage, saying,