Quotes About Power

All of them come bent on violence; their hordes advance like the east wind; they gather prisoners like sand.

They scoff at kings and make rulers an object of scorn. They laugh at every fortress and build up siege ramps to seize it.

Then they sweep by like the wind and pass on through. They are guilty; their own strength is their god.”

Will he, therefore, empty his net and continue to slay nations without mercy?

His radiance was like the sunlight; rays flashed from His hand, where His power is hidden.

Plague went before Him, and fever followed in His steps.

He stood and measured the earth; He looked and startled the nations; the ancient mountains crumbled; the perpetual hills collapsed. His ways are everlasting.

Were You angry at the rivers, O LORD? Was Your wrath against the streams? Did You rage against the sea when You rode on Your horses, on Your chariots of salvation?

You brandished Your bow; You called for many arrows. Selah You split the earth with rivers.

The mountains saw You and quaked; torrents of water swept by. The deep roared with its voice and lifted its hands on high.

Sun and moon stood still in their places at the flash of Your flying arrows, at the brightness of Your shining spear.

You marched across the earth with fury; You threshed the nations in wrath.

You went forth for the salvation of Your people, to save Your anointed. You crushed the head of the house of the wicked and stripped him from head to toe. Selah

You trampled the sea with Your horses, churning the great waters.

The LORD will be terrifying to them when He starves all the gods of the earth. Then the nations of every shore will bow in worship to Him, each in its own place.

Her princes are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves, leaving nothing for the morning.

I will overturn royal thrones and destroy the power of the kingdoms of the nations. I will overturn chariots and their riders; horses and their riders will fall, each by the sword of his brother.

So he said to me, “This is the word of the LORD to Zerubbabel: Not by might nor by power, but by My Spirit, says the LORD of Hosts.

the third white horses, and the fourth dappled horses—all of them strong.

This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “If this is impossible in the eyes of the remnant of this people in these days, should it also be impossible in My eyes?” declares the LORD of Hosts.

Then the LORD will appear over them, and His arrow will go forth like lightning. The Lord GOD will sound the ramís horn and advance in the whirlwinds of the south.

On that day the LORD will become King over all the earth—the LORD alone, and His name alone.

I baptize you with water for repentance, but after me will come One more powerful than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire.

The tempter came to Him and said, “If You are the Son of God, tell these stones to become bread.”