Quotes About Power

For the land is full of adulterers—because of the curse, the land mourns and the pastures of the wilderness have dried up—their course is evil and their power is misused.

Behold, the storm of the LORD has gone out with fury, a whirlwind swirling down upon the heads of the wicked.

“Is not My word like fire,” declares the LORD, “and like a hammer that smashes a rock?”

Pharaoh king of Egypt, his officials, his leaders, and all his people;

all the kings of Tyre and Sidon; the kings of the coastlands across the sea;

all the kings of Zimri, Elam, and Media;

all the kings of the north, both near and far, one after another—all the kingdoms on the face of the earth. And after all of them, the king of Sheshach will drink it too.

By My great power and outstretched arm, I made the earth and the men and beasts on the face of it, and I give it to whom I please.

So now I have placed all these lands under the authority of My servant Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon. I have even made the beasts of the field subject to him.

All nations will serve him and his son and grandson, until the time of his own land comes; then many nations and great kings will enslave him.

Behold, the storm of the LORD has gone out with fury, a whirlwind swirling down upon the heads of the wicked.

Thus says the LORD, who gives the sun for light by day, who sets in order the moon and stars for light by night, who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar—the LORD of Hosts is His name:

“Oh, Lord GOD! You have made the heavens and the earth by Your great power and outstretched arm. Nothing is too difficult for You!

You brought Your people Israel out of the land of Egypt with signs and wonders, with a strong hand and an outstretched arm, and with great terror.

“Behold, I am the LORD, the God of all flesh. Is anything too difficult for Me?

“Thus says the LORD who made the earth, the LORD who formed it and established it, the LORD is His name:

“Here he is,” replied King Zedekiah. “He is in your hands, since the king can do nothing to stop you.”

There at Riblah the king of Babylon slaughtered the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and he also killed all the nobles of Judah.

Then Ishmael son of Nethaniah and the ten men who were with him got up and struck down Gedaliah son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, with the sword, killing the one whom the king of Babylon had appointed to govern the land.

Who is this, rising like the Nile, like rivers whose waters churn?

Egypt rises like the Nile, and its waters churn like rivers, boasting, ëI will rise and cover the earth; I will destroy the cities and their people.í

Why have your warriors been laid low? They cannot stand, for the LORD has thrust them down.

They will chop down her forest, declares the LORD, dense though it may be, for they are more numerous than locusts; they cannot be counted.

Mourn for him, all you who surround him, everyone who knows his name; tell how the mighty scepter is shattered—the glorious staff!