Verse 27

None tire or stumble, they don’t stop to nap or sleep. They don’t loosen their belts, or unstrap their sandals to rest.

Referenced Verses

  • Job 12:18 : 18 He loosens the bonds of kings and binds a loincloth around their waist.
  • Joel 2:7-8 : 7 They charge like warriors; they scale walls like soldiers. Each one proceeds on his course; they do not alter their path. 8 They do not jostle one another; each of them marches straight ahead. They burst through the city defenses and do not break ranks.
  • Eph 6:13-14 : 13 For this reason, take up the full armor of God so that you may be able to stand your ground on the evil day, and having done everything, to stand. 14 Stand firm therefore, by fastening the belt of truth around your waist, by putting on the breastplate of righteousness,
  • Deut 32:25 : 25 The sword will make people childless outside, and terror will do so inside; they will destroy both the young man and the virgin, the infant and the gray-haired man.
  • 1 Kgs 2:5 : 5 “You know what Joab son of Zeruiah did to me– how he murdered two commanders of the Israelite armies, Abner son of Ner and Amasa son of Jether. During peacetime he struck them down like he would in battle; when he shed their blood as if in battle, he stained the belt on his waist and the sandals on his feet.
  • Job 12:21 : 21 He pours contempt on noblemen and disarms the powerful.
  • Ps 18:32 : 32 The one true God gives me strength; he removes the obstacles in my way.
  • Ps 93:1 : 1 The LORD reigns! He is robed in majesty, the LORD is robed, he wears strength around his waist. Indeed, the world is established, it cannot be moved.
  • Isa 11:5 : 5 Justice will be like a belt around his waist, integrity will be like a belt around his hips.
  • Isa 45:1 : 1 This is what the LORD says to his chosen one, to Cyrus, whose right hand I hold in order to subdue nations before him, and disarm kings, to open doors before him, so gates remain unclosed:
  • Isa 45:5 : 5 I am the LORD, I have no peer, there is no God but me. I arm you for battle, even though you do not recognize me.
  • Dan 5:6 : 6 Then all the color drained from the king’s face and he became alarmed. The joints of his hips gave way, and his knees began knocking together.