Verse 42

Bow and halbert they seize, Cruel `are' they, and they have no mercy, Their voice as a sea soundeth, and on horses they ride, Set in array as a man for battle, Against thee, O daughter of Babylon.

Referenced Verses

  • Isa 5:30 : 30 And it howleth against it in that day as the howling of a sea, And it hath looked attentively to the land, And lo, darkness -- distress, And light hath been darkened by its abundance!
  • Isa 13:17-18 : 17 Lo, I am stirring up against them the Medes, Who silver esteem not, And gold -- they delight not in it. 18 And bows dash young men to pieces, And the fruit of the womb they pity not, On sons their eye hath no pity.
  • Isa 47:6 : 6 I have been wroth against My people, I have polluted Mine inheritance And I give them into thy hand, Thou hast not appointed for them mercies, On the aged thou hast made thy yoke very heavy,
  • Jer 8:16 : 16 From Dan hath been heard the snorting of his horses, From the voice of the neighings of his mighty ones, Trembled hath all the land, And they come in and consume the land and its fulness, The city and the inhabitants in it.
  • Jer 47:3 : 3 From the sound of the stamping of the hoofs of his mighty ones, From the rushing of his chariot, the noise of his wheels, Fathers have not turned unto sons, From feebleness of hands,
  • Jer 50:14 : 14 Set yourselves in array against Babylon round about, All ye treading a bow, Shoot at her, have no pity on the arrow, For against Jehovah she hath sinned.
  • Hab 1:6-8 : 6 For, lo, I am raising up the Chaldeans, The bitter and hasty nation, That is going to the broad places of earth, To occupy tabernacles not its own. 7 Terrible and fearful it `is', From itself its judgment and its excellency go forth. 8 Swifter than leopards have been its horses, And sharper than evening wolves, And increased have its horsemen, Even its horsemen from afar come in, They fly as an eagle, hasting to consume.
  • Jas 2:13 : 13 for the judgment without kindness `is' to him not having done kindness, and exult doth kindness over judgment.
  • Rev 16:6 : 6 because blood of saints and prophets they did pour out, and blood to them Thou didst give to drink, for they are worthy;'
  • Rev 19:14-18 : 14 And the armies in the heaven were following him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen -- white and pure; 15 and out of his mouth doth proceed a sharp sword, that with it he may smite the nations, and he shall rule them with a rod of iron, and he doth tread the press of the wine of the wrath and the anger of God the Almighty, 16 and he hath upon the garment and upon his thigh the name written, `King of kings, and Lord of lords.' 17 And I saw one messenger standing in the sun, and he cried, a great voice, saying to all the birds that are flying in mid-heaven, `Come and be gathered together to the supper of the great God, 18 that ye may eat flesh of kings, and flesh of chiefs of thousands, and flesh of strong men, and flesh of horses, and of those sitting on them, and the flesh of all -- freemen and servants -- both small and great.'
  • Jer 6:22-23 : 22 Thus said Jehovah: Lo, a people hath come from a north country, And a great nation is stirred up from the sides of the earth. 23 Bow and javelin they take hold of, Fierce it `is', and they have no mercy, Their voice as a sea doth sound, And on horses they ride, set in array as a man of war, Against thee, O daughter of Zion.
  • Isa 14:6 : 6 He who is smiting peoples in wrath, A smiting without intermission, He who is ruling in anger nations, Pursuing without restraint!
  • Ps 46:2-3 : 2 Therefore we fear not in the changing of earth, And in the slipping of mountains Into the heart of the seas. 3 Roar -- troubled are its waters, Mountains they shake in its pride. Selah.
  • Ps 46:6 : 6 Troubled have been nations, Moved have been kingdoms, He hath given forth with His voice, earth melteth.
  • Ps 74:20 : 20 Look attentively to the covenant, For the dark places of earth, Have been full of habitations of violence.
  • Ps 137:8-9 : 8 O daughter of Babylon, O destroyed one, O the happiness of him who repayeth to thee thy deed, That thou hast done to us. 9 O the happiness of him who doth seize, And hath dashed thy sucklings on the rock!
  • Isa 5:28 : 28 Whose arrows `are' sharp, and all its bows bent, Hoofs of its horses as flint have been reckoned, And its wheels as a hurricane!