Psalms 89:43

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You turn back his sword from the adversary, and have not sustained him in battle.

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  • Lev 26:36-37 : 36 “‘As for the ones who remain among you, I will bring despair into their hearts in the lands of their enemies. The sound of a blowing leaf will pursue them, and they will flee as one who flees the sword and fall down even though there is no pursuer. 37 They will stumble over each other as those who flee before a sword, though there is no pursuer, and there will be no one to take a stand for you before your enemies.
  • Num 14:42 : 42 Do not go up, for the LORD is not among you, and you will be defeated before your enemies.
  • Num 14:45 : 45 So the Amalekites and the Canaanites who lived in that hill country swooped down and attacked them as far as Hormah.
  • Josh 7:4-5 : 4 So about three thousand men went up, but they fled from the men of Ai. 5 The men of Ai killed about thirty-six of them and chased them from in front of the city gate all the way to the fissures and defeated them on the steep slope. The people’s courage melted away like water.
  • Josh 7:8-9 : 8 O Lord, what can I say now that Israel has retreated before its enemies? 9 When the Canaanites and all who live in the land hear about this, they will turn against us and destroy the very memory of us from the earth. What will you do to protect your great reputation?” 10 The LORD responded to Joshua,“Get up! Why are you lying there face down? 11 Israel has sinned; they have violated my covenantal commandment! They have taken some of the riches; they have stolen them and deceitfully put them among their own possessions. 12 The Israelites are unable to stand before their enemies; they retreat because they have become subject to annihilation. I will no longer be with you, unless you destroy what has contaminated you.
  • 2 Chr 25:8 : 8 Even if you go and fight bravely in battle, God will defeat you before the enemy. God is capable of helping or defeating.”
  • Ps 44:10 : 10 You made us retreat from the enemy. Those who hate us take whatever they want from us.
  • Ezek 30:21-25 : 21 “Son of man, I have broken the arm of Pharaoh king of Egypt. Look, it has not been bandaged for healing or set with a dressing so that it might become strong enough to grasp a sword. 22 Therefore this is what the Sovereign LORD says: Look, I am against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and I will break his arms, the strong arm and the broken one, and I will make the sword drop from his hand. 23 I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and disperse them among foreign countries. 24 I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, and I will place my sword in his hand, but I will break the arms of Pharaoh, and he will groan like the fatally wounded before the king of Babylon. 25 I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, but the arms of Pharaoh will fall limp. Then they will know that I am the LORD when I place my sword in the hand of the king of Babylon and he extends it against the land of Egypt.

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  • Ps 89:38-42
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    38But you have spurned and rejected him; you are angry with your chosen king.

    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.

    41All who pass by have robbed him; he has become an object of disdain to his neighbors.

    42You have allowed his adversaries to be victorious, and all his enemies to rejoice.

  • Ps 89:44-45
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    44You have brought to an end his splendor, and have knocked his throne to the ground.

    45You have cut short his youth, and have covered him with shame.(Selah)

  • Ps 18:39-40
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    39You give me strength for battle; you make my foes kneel before me.

    40You make my enemies retreat; I destroy those who hate me.

  • 2 Sam 22:40-41
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    40You give me strength for battle; you make my foes kneel before me.

    41You make my enemies retreat; I destroy those who hate me.

  • Ps 44:9-10
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    9But you rejected and embarrassed us! You did not go into battle with our armies.

    10You made us retreat from the enemy. Those who hate us take whatever they want from us.

  • Ps 89:13
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    13Your arm is powerful, your hand strong, your right hand victorious.

  • Ps 89:22-23
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    22No enemy will be able to exact tribute from him; a violent oppressor will not be able to humiliate him.

    23I will crush his enemies before him; I will strike down those who hate him.

  • Isa 49:2
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    2He made my mouth like a sharp sword, he hid me in the hollow of his hand; he made me like a sharpened arrow, he hid me in his quiver.

  • Ps 18:34-35
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    34He trains my hands for battle; my arms can bend even the strongest bow.

    35You give me your protective shield; your right hand supports me; your willingness to help enables me to prevail.

  • Ps 45:3
    71%

    3Strap your sword to your thigh, O warrior! Appear in your majestic splendor!

  • Ps 45:5
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    5Your arrows are sharp and penetrate the hearts of the king’s enemies. Nations fall at your feet.

  • Ps 21:12
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    12For you make them retreat when you aim your arrows at them.

  • Lam 2:17
    71%

    17ע(Ayin) The LORD has done what he planned; he has fulfilled his promise that he threatened long ago: He has overthrown you without mercy and has enabled the enemy to gloat over you; he has exalted your adversaries’ power.

  • Ps 89:17
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    17For you give them splendor and strength. By your favor we are victorious.

  • Ps 44:3
    71%

    3For they did not conquer the land by their swords, and they did not prevail by their strength, but rather by your power, strength and good favor, for you were partial to them.

  • Obad 1:14
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    14You should not have stood at the fork in the road to slaughter those trying to escape. You should not have captured their refugees when they suffered adversity.

  • Ps 89:10
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    10You crushed the Proud One and killed it; with your strong arm you scattered your enemies.

  • Job 39:23
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    23On it the quiver rattles; the lance and javelin flash.

  • Ps 89:25
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    25I will place his hand over the sea, his right hand over the rivers.

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

  • Ps 132:11
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    11The LORD made a reliable promise to David; he will not go back on his word. He said,“I will place one of your descendants on your throne.

  • Ps 44:6
    70%

    6For I do not trust in my bow, and I do not prevail by my sword.

  • Ps 18:43
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    43You rescue me from a hostile army; you make me a leader of nations; people over whom I had no authority are now my subjects.

  • 2 Sam 22:35-36
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    35He trains my hands for battle; my arms can bend even the strongest bow.

    36You give me your protective shield; your willingness to help enables me to prevail.

  • 2 Sam 22:44
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    44You rescue me from a hostile army; you preserve me as a leader of nations; people over whom I had no authority are now my subjects.

  • Ezek 39:3
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    3I will knock your bow out of your left hand and make your arrows fall from your right hand.

  • Ps 110:2
    70%

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

  • Ps 89:33
    69%

    33But I will not remove my loyal love from him, nor be unfaithful to my promise.

  • Job 41:26
    69%

    26Whoever strikes it with a sword will have no effect, nor with the spear, arrow, or dart.

  • Ps 80:17
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    17May you give support to the one you have chosen, to the one whom you raised up for yourself!

  • Lam 3:43
    69%

    43ס(Samek) You shrouded yourself with anger and then pursued us; you killed without mercy.

  • Ps 21:6
    69%

    6For you grant him lasting blessings; you give him great joy by allowing him into your presence.

  • Job 41:28
    69%

    28Arrows do not make it flee; slingstones become like chaff to it.

  • Ezek 32:28
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    28“But as for you, in the midst of the uncircumcised you will be broken, and you will lie with those killed by the sword.

  • 1 Sam 28:18
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    18Since you did not obey the LORD and did not carry out his fierce anger against the Amalekites, the LORD has done this thing to you today.

  • Ezek 21:11
    69%

    11“‘He gave it to be polished, to be grasped in the hand– the sword is sharpened, it is polished– giving it into the hand of the executioner.