Quotes About Defiance

He is secure in his ways at all times; Your lofty judgments are far from him; he sneers at all his foes.

They have tracked us down, and now surround us; their eyes are set to cast us to the ground,

Let them not say in their hearts, “Aha, just what we wanted!” Let them not say, “We have swallowed him up!”

They set their mouths against the heavens, and their tongues strut across the earth.

They said in their hearts, “We will crush them completely.” They burned down every place where God met us in the land.

Remember how the enemy has mocked You, O LORD, how a foolish people has spurned Your name.

See how Your enemies rage, how Your foes have reared their heads.

He sent darkness, and it became dark—yet they defied His words.

She is loud and defiant; her feet do not remain at home.

For Jerusalem has stumbled and Judah has fallen because they spoke and acted against the LORD, defying His glorious presence.

Yet today they will halt at Nob, shaking a fist at the mount of Daughter Zion, at the hill of Jerusalem.

And the king of Assyria sent the Rabshakeh, with a great army, from Lachish to King Hezekiah at Jerusalem. And he stopped by the aqueduct of the upper pool, on the road to the Laundererís Field.

But the Rabshakeh replied, “Has my master sent me to speak these words only to you and your master, and not to the men sitting on the wall, who are destined with you to eat their own dung and drink their own urine?”

Who among all the gods of these lands has delivered his land from my hand? How then can the LORD deliver Jerusalem from my hand?”

Perhaps the LORD your God will hear the words of the Rabshakeh, whom his master the king of Assyria has sent to defy the living God, and He will rebuke him for the words that the LORD your God has heard. Therefore lift up a prayer for the remnant that still survives.”

Where are the kings of Hamath, Arpad, Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivvah?í”

Incline Your ear, O LORD, and hear; open Your eyes, O LORD, and see. Listen to all the words that Sennacherib has sent to defy the living God.

this is the word that the LORD has spoken against him: ëThe Virgin Daughter of Zion despises you and mocks you; the Daughter of Jerusalem shakes her head behind you.

Whom have you taunted and blasphemed? Against whom have you raised your voice and lifted your eyes in pride? Against the Holy One of Israel!

So take your stand with your spells and with your many sorceries, with which you have wearied yourself from your youth. Perhaps you will succeed; perhaps you will inspire terror!

For I knew that you are stubborn; your neck is iron and your forehead is bronze.

Now behold, this day I have made you like a fortified city, an iron pillar, and bronze walls against the whole land—against the kings of Judah, its officials, its priests, and the people of the land.

But they will reply, ëIt is hopeless. We will follow our own plans, and each of us will act according to the stubbornness of his evil heart.í”

Indeed, if you were to strike down the entire army of the Chaldeans that is fighting against you, and only wounded men remained in their tents, they would still get up and burn this city down.”