Quotes About Battle

Therefore, hand their children over to famine; pour out the power of the sword upon them. Let their wives become childless and widowed; let their husbands be slain by disease, their young men struck down by the sword in battle.

May that man be like the cities that the LORD overthrew without compassion. May he hear an outcry in the morning and a battle cry at noon,

And I Myself will fight against you with an outstretched hand and a mighty arm, with anger, fury, and great wrath.

Meanwhile, Johanan son of Kareah and all the commanders of the armies in the field came to Gedaliah at Mizpah

they took all their men and went to fight Ishmael son of Nethaniah. And they found him near the great pool in Gibeon.

“Deploy your shields, small and large; advance for battle!

Harness the horses; mount the steeds; take your positions with helmets on! Polish your spears; put on armor!

“The swift cannot flee, and the warrior cannot escape! In the north by the River Euphrates they stumble and fall.

Advance, O horses! Race furiously, O chariots! Let the warriors come forth—Cush and Put carrying their shields, men of Lydia drawing the bow.

The nations have heard of your shame, and your outcry fills the earth, because warrior stumbles over warrior and both of them have fallen together.”

Egypt will hiss like a fleeing serpent, for the enemy will advance in force; with axes they will come against her like woodsmen cutting down trees.

ëAlas, O sword of the LORD, how long until you rest? Return to your sheath; cease and be still!í

How can you say, ëWe are warriors, mighty men ready for battleí?

Therefore, behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will sound the battle cry against Rabbah of the Ammonites. It will become a heap of ruins, and its villages will be burned. Then Israel will drive out their dispossessors, says the LORD.

I have heard a message from the LORD; an envoy has been sent to the nations: “Assemble yourselves to march against her! Rise up for battle!”

“The noise of battle is in the land—the noise of great destruction.

Do not let the archer bend his bow or put on his armor. Do not spare her young men; devote all her army to destruction!

“You are My war club, My weapon for battle. With you I shatter nations; with you I bring kingdoms to ruin.

With you I shatter the horse and rider; with you I shatter the chariot and driver.

Prepare the nations for battle against her—the kings of the Medes, their governors and all their officials, and all the lands they rule.

You did not go up to the gaps or restore the wall around the house of Israel so that it would stand in the battle on the Day of the LORD.

Pharaoh with his mighty army and vast horde will not help him in battle, when ramps are built and siege walls constructed to destroy many lives.

“Son of man, prophesy and tell them that this is what the Lord says: ëA sword, a sword, sharpened and polished—

The sword is appointed to be polished, to be grasped in the hand. It is sharpened and polished, to be placed in the hand of the slayer.