Job 12:23
He increases the nations, and he destroys them. He enlarges the nations, and he leads them captive.
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- Isa 9:3 : 3 You have multiplied the nation, you have increased their joy: they joy before you according to the joy in harvest, as men rejoice when they divide the spoil.
- Isa 26:15 : 15 You have increased the nation, O Yahweh, you have increased the nation; you are glorified; you have enlarged all the borders of the land.
- Isa 60:22 : 22 The little one shall become a thousand, and the small one a strong nation; I, Yahweh, will hasten it in its time.
- Ps 107:38 : 38 He blesses them also, so that they are multiplied greatly. He doesn't allow their cattle to decrease.
- Exod 1:7 : 7 The children of Israel were fruitful, and increased abundantly, and multiplied, and grew exceedingly mighty; and the land was filled with them.
- Exod 1:20 : 20 God dealt well with the midwives, and the people multiplied, and grew very mighty.
- Jer 30:19 : 19 Out of them shall proceed thanksgiving and the voice of those who make merry: and I will multiply them, and they shall not be few; I will also glorify them, and they shall not be small.
- Jer 33:22 : 22 As the host of the sky can't be numbered, neither the sand of the sea measured; so will I multiply the seed of David my servant, and the Levites who minister to me.
- Zech 10:8 : 8 I will signal for them, and gather them; For I have redeemed them; And they will increase as they have increased.
- Isa 27:6 : 6 In days to come shall Jacob take root; Israel shall blossom and bud; and they shall fill the surface of the world with fruit.
- Isa 51:2 : 2 Look to Abraham your father, and to Sarah who bore you; for when he was but one I called him, and I blessed him, and made him many.
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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.
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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.
18 He loosens the bond of kings, He binds their loins with a belt.
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.
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23 who brings princes to nothing; who makes the judges of the earth as vanity.
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15 You have increased the nation, O Yahweh, you have increased the nation; you are glorified; you have enlarged all the borders of the land.
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24 He breaks in pieces mighty men in ways past finding out, And sets others in their place.
25 Therefore he takes knowledge of their works. He overturns them in the night, so that they are destroyed.
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6 They were broken in pieces, nation against nation, and city against city; for God did vex them with all adversity.
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7 However he doesn't mean so, neither does his heart think so; but it is in his heart to destroy, and to cut off not a few nations.
- Ps 107:38-403 verses70%
38 He blesses them also, so that they are multiplied greatly. He doesn't allow their cattle to decrease.
39 Again, they are diminished and bowed down Through oppression, trouble, and sorrow.
40 He pours contempt on princes, And causes them to wander in a trackless waste.
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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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6 Yahweh kills, and makes alive: He brings down to Sheol, and brings up.
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23 But Yahweh your God will deliver them up before you, and will confuse them with a great confusion, until they be destroyed.
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12 It is turned round about by his guidance, That they may do whatever he commands them On the surface of the habitable world,
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10 If he passes by, or confines, Or convenes a court, then who can oppose him?
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12 The multitude shall be lifted up, and his heart shall be exalted; and he shall cast down tens of thousands, but he shall not prevail.
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6 He stood, and shook the earth. He looked, and made the nations tremble. The ancient mountains were crumbled. The age-old hills collapsed. His ways are eternal.
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23 He weakened my strength along the course. He shortened my days.
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12 Behold, he snatches away; who can hinder him? Who will ask him, 'What are you doing?'
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10 Who struck many nations, And killed mighty kings,
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3 You have multiplied the nation, you have increased their joy: they joy before you according to the joy in harvest, as men rejoice when they divide the spoil.
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11 He has stretched out his hand over the sea, he has shaken the kingdoms: Yahweh has given commandment concerning Canaan, to destroy the strongholds of it.
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23 then will Yahweh drive out all these nations from before you, and you shall dispossess nations greater and mightier than yourselves.
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7 At what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up and to break down and to destroy it;
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1 Behold, Yahweh makes the earth empty, and makes it waste, and turns it upside down, and scatters abroad the inhabitants of it.
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23 After the league made with him he shall work deceitfully; for he shall come up, and shall become strong, with a small people.
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9 Who brings sudden destruction on the strong, So that destruction comes on the fortress.
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6 He will judge among the nations. He will heap up dead bodies. He will crush the ruler of the whole earth.
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39 He shall deal with the strongest fortresses by the help of a foreign god: whoever acknowledges [him] he will increase with glory; and he shall cause them to rule over many, and shall divide the land for a price.
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12 to take the spoil and to take the prey; to turn your hand against the waste places that are [now] inhabited, and against the people who are gathered out of the nations, who have gotten cattle and goods, who dwell in the middle of the earth.
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12 He will cut off the spirit of princes. He is feared by the kings of the earth.
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12 For that nation and kingdom that will not serve you shall perish; yes, those nations shall be utterly wasted.
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10 Yahweh brings the counsel of the nations to nothing. He makes the thoughts of the peoples to be of no effect.
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24 He increased his people greatly, And made them stronger than their adversaries.
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12 He stirs up the sea with his power, And by his understanding he strikes through Rahab.
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19 How they are suddenly destroyed! They are completely swept away with terrors.
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17 Will he therefore continually empty his net, and kill the nations without mercy?
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9 I will also vex the hearts of many peoples, when I shall bring your destruction among the nations, into the countries which you have not known.