Job 12:18
He loosens the bond of kings. He binds their waist with a belt.
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- Ps 116:16 : 16 Yahweh, truly I am your servant. I am your servant, the son of your handmaid. You have freed me from my chains.
- Dan 2:21 : 21 He changes the times and the seasons; he removes kings, and sets up kings; he gives wisdom to the wise, and knowledge to those who have understanding;
- Jer 52:31-34 : 31 It happened 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 Evilmerodach 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 he spoke kindly to him, and set his throne above the throne of the kings who were with him in Babylon, 33 and changed his prison garments. [Jehoiachin] ate bread before him continually all the days of his life: 34 and for his allowance, there was a continual allowance given him by 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 Therefore Yahweh brought on them the captains of the army of the king of Assyria, who took Manasseh in chains, and bound him with fetters, and carried him to Babylon. 12 When he was in distress, he begged Yahweh his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers. 13 He prayed to him; and he was entreated by him, and heard his supplication, and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that Yahweh was God. 14 Now after this he built an outer wall to the city of David, on the west side of Gihon, in the valley, even to the entrance at the fish gate; and he encircled Ophel [with it], and raised it up to a very great height: and he put valiant captains in all the fortified cities of Judah.
- Rev 19:16 : 16 He has on his garment and on his thigh a name written, "KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS."
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- Job 12:19-257 verses82%
19 He leads priests away stripped, and overthrows the mighty.
20 He removes the speech of those who are trusted, and takes away the understanding of the elders.
21 He pours contempt on princes, and loosens the belt of the strong.
22 He uncovers deep things out of darkness, and brings out to light the shadow of death.
23 He increases the nations, and he destroys them. He enlarges the nations, and he leads them captive.
24 He takes away understanding from the chiefs of the people of the earth, and causes them to wander in a wilderness where there is no way.
25 They grope in the dark without light. He makes them stagger like a drunken man.
- Job 12:14-174 verses79%
14 Behold, he breaks down, and it can't be built again. He imprisons a man, and there can be no release.
15 Behold, he withholds the waters, and they dry up. Again, he sends them out, and they overturn the earth.
16 With him is strength and wisdom. The deceived and the deceiver are his.
17 He leads counselors away stripped. He makes 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 If they are bound in fetters, and are taken in the cords of afflictions,
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5 Righteousness will be the belt of his waist, and faithfulness the belt of his waist.
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11 For he has untied his cord, and afflicted me; and they have thrown off restraint before me.
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3 "Let's break their bonds apart, and cast their cords from us."
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22 to discipline his princes at his pleasure, and to teach his elders wisdom.
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19 Let it be to him as the clothing with which he covers himself, for the belt that is always around him.
- Jer 13:1-22 verses70%
1 Thus says Yahweh to me, Go, and buy yourself a linen belt, and put it on your waist, and don't put it in water.
2 So I bought a belt according to the word of Yahweh, and put it on my waist.
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23 who brings princes to nothing; who makes the judges of the earth like meaningless.
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12 It is turned around by his guidance, that they may do whatever he commands them on the surface of the habitable world,
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20 The king sent and freed him; even the ruler of peoples, and let him go free.
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13 Now will I break his yoke from off you, and will burst your bonds apart."
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40 He pours contempt on princes, and causes them to wander in a trackless waste.
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4 "The bows of the mighty men are broken. Those who stumbled are armed with strength.
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12 He will cut off the spirit of princes. He is feared by the kings of the earth. For the Chief Musician. To Jeduthun. A Psalm by Asaph.
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21 He changes the times and the seasons; he removes kings, and sets up kings; he gives wisdom to the wise, and knowledge to those who have understanding;
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15 dressed with girdles on their waists, with flowing turbans on their heads, all of them princes to look on, after the likeness of the Babylonians in Chaldea, the land of their birth.
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24 He breaks in pieces mighty men in ways past finding out, and sets others in their place.
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15 He delivers the afflicted by their affliction, and opens their ear in oppression.
16 Yes, he would have allured you out of distress, into a broad place, where there is no restriction. That which is set on your table would be full of fatness.
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26 A wise king winnows out the wicked, and drives the threshing wheel over them.
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21 and I will clothe him with your robe, and strengthen him with your belt. I will commit your government into his hand; and he will be a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to the house of Judah.
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6 Therefore pride is like a chain around their neck. Violence covers them like a garment.
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4 for the king's word is supreme. Who can say to him, "What are you doing?"
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39 For you have armed me with strength to the battle. You have subdued under me those who rose up against me.
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32 the God who arms me with strength, and makes my way perfect?
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11 He binds the streams that they don't trickle. The thing that is hidden he brings forth to light.
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18 By great force is my garment disfigured. It binds me about as the collar of my coat.
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10 So that they go around naked without clothing. Being hungry, they carry the sheaves.
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10 You are he who gives salvation to kings, who rescues David, his servant, from the deadly sword.
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7 who executes justice for the oppressed; who gives food to the hungry. Yahweh frees the prisoners.
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14 with kings and counselors of the earth, who built up waste places for themselves;
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19 I will thrust you from your office. You will be pulled down from your station.
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22 Yet God preserves the mighty by his power. He rises up who has no assurance of life.
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17 who made the world like a wilderness, and overthrew its cities; who didn't release his prisoners to their home?"
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6 Then the king's face was changed in him, and his thoughts troubled him; and the joints of his thighs were loosened, and his knees struck one against another.
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8 It shall come to pass in that day, says Yahweh of Armies, that I will break his yoke from off your neck, and will burst your bonds; and strangers shall no more make him their bondservant;
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13 His archers surround me. He splits my kidneys apart, and does not spare. He pours out my gall on the ground.