TYPE OF STATEMENTS IN THE BIBLE. PART 2
H. ANTHROPOMORPHISMS which speak of God=s guiding His people
(Psa 32:8 NIV) I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will counsel you and watch over you.
(Psa 73:23 NIV) Yet I am always with you; you hold me by my right hand.
(Psa 73:24 NIV) You guide me with your counsel, and afterward you will take me into glory.
(Isa 42:6 NIV) "I, the LORD, have called you in righteousness; I will take hold of your hand. I will keep you and will make you to be a covenant for the people and a light for the Gentiles,
(Heb 8:9 NIV) It will not be like the covenant I made with their forefathers when I took them by the hand to lead them out of Egypt, because they did not remain faithful to my covenant, and I turned away from them, declares the Lord.
I. ANTHROPOMORPHISMS which speak of God=s answering prayer
(Psa 34:15 NIV) The eyes of the LORD are on the righteous and his ears are attentive to their cry;
(Psa 135:13 NIV) Your name, O LORD, endures forever, your renown, O LORD, through all generations.
(Psa 135:14 NIV) For the LORD will vindicate his people and have compassion on his servants.
(Psa 135:15 NIV) The idols of the nations are silver and gold, made by the hands of men.
(Psa 135:16 NIV) They have mouths, but cannot speak, eyes, but they cannot see;
(Psa 135:17 NIV) they have ears, but cannot hear, nor is there breath in their mouths.
(Psa 144:7 NIV) Reach down your hand from on high; deliver me and rescue me from the mighty waters, from the hands of foreigners
(2 Chr 6:40 NIV) "Now, my God, may your eyes be open and your ears attentive to the prayers offered in this place.
(Psa 17:6 NIV) I call on you, O God, for you will answer me; give ear to me and hear my prayer.
(Psa 31:2 NIV) Turn your ear to me, come quickly to my rescue; be my rock of refuge, a strong fortress to save me.
(Neh 1:6 NIV) let your ear be attentive and your eyes open to hear the prayer your servant is praying before you day and night for your servants, the people of Israel. I confess the sins we Israelites, including myself and my father’s house, have committed against you.
J. ANTHROPOMORPHISMS which speak of God=s loving and of God=s remembering His people
(Num 6:25 NIV) the LORD make his face shine upon you and be gracious to you;
(Psa 104:28 NIV) When you give it to them, they gather it up; when you open your hand, they are satisfied with good things.
(Psa 145:15 NIV) The eyes of all look to you, and you give them their food at the proper time.
(Psa 145:16 NIV) You open your hand and satisfy the desires of every living thing.
(Job 9:4 NIV) His wisdom is profound, his power is vast. Who has resisted him and come out unscathed?
(Isa 49:15 NIV) "Can a mother forget the baby at her breast and have no compassion on the child she has borne? Though she may forget, I will not forget you!
(Isa 49:16 NIV) See, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands; your walls are ever before me.
(Isa 54:1 NIV) "Sing, O barren woman, you who never bore a child; burst into song, shout for joy, you who were never in labor; because more are the children of the desolate woman than of her who has a husband," says the LORD.
(Isa 54:2 NIV) "Enlarge the place of your tent, stretch your tent curtains wide, do not hold back; lengthen your cords, strengthen your stakes.
(Isa 54:3 NIV) For you will spread out to the right and to the left; your descendants will dispossess nations and settle in their desolate cities.
(Isa 54:4 NIV) "Do not be afraid; you will not suffer shame. Do not fear disgrace; you will not be humiliated. You will forget the shame of your youth and remember no more the reproach of your widowhood.
(Isa 54:5 NIV) For your Maker is your husband?? the LORD Almighty is his name?? the Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer; he is called the God of all the earth.
(Isa 54:6 NIV) The LORD will call you back as if you were a wife deserted and distressed in spirit?? a wife who married young, only to be rejected," says your God.
(Isa 54:7 NIV) "For a brief moment I abandoned you, but with deep compassion I will bring you back.
(Isa 54:8 NIV) In a surge of anger I hid my face from you for a moment, but with everlasting kindness I will have compassion on you," says the LORD your Redeemer.
(Isa 54:9 NIV) "To me this is like the days of Noah, when I swore that the waters of Noah would never again cover the earth. So now I have sworn not to be angry with you, never to rebuke you again.
(Isa 54:10 NIV) Though the mountains be shaken and the hills be removed, yet my unfailing love for you will not be shaken nor my covenant of peace be removed," says the LORD, who has compassion on you.
(Zec 2:8 NIV) For this is what the LORD Almighty says: "After he has honored me and has sent me against the nations that have plundered you??for whoever touches you touches the apple of his eye—
K. ANTHROPOMORPHISMS which speak of God=s apparent apathy to the needs of His people
(Num 11:23 NIV) The LORD answered Moses, "Is the Lord’s arm too short? You will now see whether or not what I say will come true for you."
(2 Ki 19:15 NIV) And Hezekiah prayed to the LORD: "O LORD, God of Israel, enthroned between the cherubim, you alone are God over all the kingdoms of the earth. You have made heaven and earth.
(2 Ki 19:16 NIV) Give ear, O LORD, and hear; open your eyes, O LORD, and see; listen to the words Sennacherib has sent to insult the living God.
(Psa 10:1 NIV) Why, O LORD, do you stand far off? Why do you hide yourself in times of trouble?
(Psa 10:11 NIV) He says to himself, "God has forgotten; he covers his face and never sees."
(Psa 10:12 NIV) Arise, LORD! Lift up your hand, O God. Do not forget the
helpless.
(Psa 27:9 NIV) Do not hide your face from me, do not turn your servant away in anger; you have been my helper. Do not reject me or forsake me, O God my Savior.
(Psa 31:1 NIV) For the director of music. A psalm of David. In you, O LORD, I have taken refuge; let me never be put to shame; deliver me in your righteousness.
(Psa 31:2 NIV) Turn your ear to me, come quickly to my rescue; be my rock of refuge, a strong fortress to save me.
(Psa 31:3 NIV) Since you are my rock and my fortress, for the sake of your name lead and guide me.
(Psa 31:4 NIV) Free me from the trap that is set for me, for you are my refuge.
(Psa 31:5 NIV) Into your hands I commit my spirit; redeem me, O LORD, the God of truth.
(Psa 31:6 NIV) I hate those who cling to worthless idols; I trust in the LORD.
(Psa 31:7 NIV) I will be glad and rejoice in your love, for you saw my affliction and knew the anguish of my soul.
(Psa 31:8 NIV) You have not handed me over to the enemy but have set my feet in a spacious place.
(Psa 31:9 NIV) Be merciful to me, O LORD, for I am in distress; my eyes grow weak with sorrow, my soul and my body with grief.
(Psa 31:10 NIV) My life is consumed by anguish and my years by groaning; my strength fails because of my affliction, and my bones grow weak.
(Psa 31:11 NIV) Because of all my enemies, I am the utter contempt of my neighbors; I am a dread to my friends?? those who see me on the street flee from me.
(Psa 31:12 NIV) I am forgotten by them as though I were dead; I have become like broken pottery.
(Psa 31:13 NIV) For I hear the slander of many; there is terror on every side; they conspire against me and plot to take my life.
(Psa 31:14 NIV) But I trust in you, O LORD; I say, "You are my God."
(Psa 31:15 NIV) My times are in your hands; deliver me from my enemies and from those who pursue me.
(Psa 31:16 NIV) Let your face shine on your servant; save me in your unfailing love.
(Psa 31:17 NIV) Let me not be put to shame, O LORD, for I have cried out to you; but let the wicked be put to shame and lie silent in the grave.
(Psa 31:18 NIV) Let their lying lips be silenced, for with pride and contempt they speak arrogantly against the righteous.
(Psa 31:19 NIV) How great is your goodness, which you have stored up for those who fear you, which you bestow in the sight of men on those who take refuge in you.
(Psa 31:20 NIV) In the shelter of your presence you hide them from the intrigues of men; in your dwelling you keep them safe from accusing tongues.
(Psa 31:21 NIV) Praise be to the LORD, for he showed his wonderful love to me when I was in a besieged city.
(Psa 31:22 NIV) In my alarm I said, "I am cut off from your sight!" Yet you heard my cry for mercy when I called to you for help.
(Psa 31:23 NIV) Love the LORD, all his saints! The LORD preserves the faithful, but the proud he pays back in full.
(Psa 31:24 NIV) Be strong and take heart, all you who hope in the LORD.
(Psa 30:7 NIV) O LORD, when you favored me, you made my mountain stand firm; but when you hid your face, I was dismayed.
(Hab 1:2 NIV) How long, O LORD, must I call for help, but you do not listen? Or cry out to you, "Violence!" but you do not save?
(Hab 1:3 NIV) Why do you make me look at injustice? Why do you tolerate wrong? Destruction and violence are before me; there is strife, and conflict abounds.
(Hab 1:4 NIV) Therefore the law is paralyzed, and justice never prevails. The wicked hem in the righteous, so that justice is perverted.
(Hab 1:12 NIV) O LORD, are you not from everlasting? My God, my Holy One, we will not die. O LORD, you have appointed them to execute judgment; O Rock, you have ordained them to punish.
(Hab 1:13 NIV) Your eyes are too pure to look on evil; you cannot tolerate wrong. Why then do you tolerate the treacherous? Why are you silent while the wicked swallow up those more righteous than themselves?
(Hab 1:14 NIV) You have made men like fish in the sea, like sea creatures that have no ruler.
(Hab 1:15 NIV) The wicked foe pulls all of them up with hooks, he catches them in his net, he gathers them up in his dragnet; and so he rejoices and is glad.
(Hab 1:16 NIV) Therefore he sacrifices to his net and burns incense to his dragnet, for by his net he lives in luxury and enjoys the choicest food.
(Hab 1:17 NIV) Is he to keep on emptying his net, destroying nations without mercy?
L. ANTHROPOMORPHISMS which speak of God=s
apparent apathy but His actual demanding of
repentance
(Isa 1:15 NIV) When you spread out your hands in prayer, I will hide my eyes from you; even if you offer many prayers, I will not listen. Your hands are full of blood;
(Isa 59:1 NIV) Surely the arm of the LORD is not too short to save, nor his ear too dull to hear.
(Isa 59:2 NIV) But your iniquities have separated you from your God; your sins have hidden his face from you, so that he will not hear.
(Jer 18:17 NIV) Like a wind from the east, I will scatter them before their enemies; I will show them my back and not my face in the day of their disaster."
(Micah 3:4 NIV) Then they will cry out to the LORD, but he will not answer them. At that time he will hide his face from them because of the evil they have done.
M. ANTHROPOMORPHISMS which speak of God=s pleading with His people
(Isa 65:2 NIV) All day long I have held out my hands to an obstinate people, who walk in ways not good, pursuing their own imaginations??
(Rom 10:20 NIV) And Isaiah boldly says, "I was found by those who did not seek me; I revealed myself to those who did not ask for me."
(Rom 10:21 NIV) But concerning Israel he says, "All day long I have held out my hands to a disobedient and obstinate people."
N. ANTHROPOMORPHISMS which speak of God=s punishing, purifying and correcting disobedient Jews and Gentiles
(Exo 16:3 NIV) The Israelites said to them, "If only we had died by the Lord’s hand in Egypt! There we sat around pots of meat and ate all the food we wanted, but you have brought us out into this desert to starve this entire assembly to death."
(Deu 2:14 NIV) Thirty?eight years passed from the time we left Kadesh Barnea until we crossed the Zered Valley. By then, that entire generation of fighting men had perished from the camp, as the LORD had sworn to them.
(Deu 2:15 NIV) The Lord’s hand was against them until he had completely eliminated them from the camp.
(Deu 11:1 NIV) Love the LORD your God and keep his requirements, his decrees, his laws and his commands always.
(Deu 11:2 NIV) Remember today that your children were not the ones who saw and experienced the discipline of the LORD your God: his majesty, his mighty hand, his outstretched arm;
(Psa 32:4 NIV) For day and night your hand was heavy upon me; my strength was sapped as in the heat of summer. Selah
(Psa 39:10 NIV) Remove your scourge from me; I am overcome by the blow of your hand.
(Psa 106:26 NIV) So he swore to them with uplifted hand that he would make them fall in the desert,
(Isa 1:25 NIV) I will turn my hand against you; I will thoroughly purge away your dross and remove all your impurities.
(Ezek 44:12 NIV) But because they served them in the presence of their idols and made the house of Israel fall into sin, therefore I have sworn with uplifted hand that they must bear the consequences of their sin, declares the Sovereign LORD.
(Heb 10:31 NIV) It is a dreadful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
O. ANTHROPOMORPHISMS which speak of God=s humbling and molding like a potter
(Isa 64:8 NIV) Yet, O LORD, you are our Father. We are the clay, you are the potter; we are all the work of your hand.
(Jer 18:1 NIV) This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD:
(Jer 18:2 NIV) "Go down to the potter’s house, and there I will give you my message."
(Jer 18:3 NIV) So I went down to the potter’s house, and I saw him working at the wheel.
(Jer 18:4 NIV) But the pot he was shaping from the clay was marred in his hands; so the potter formed it into another pot, shaping it as seemed best to him.
(Jer 18:5 NIV) Then the word of the LORD came to me:
(Jer 18:6 NIV) "O house of Israel, can I not do with you as this potter does?" declares the LORD. "Like clay in the hand of the potter, so are you in my hand, O house of Israel.
(Jer 18:7 NIV) If at any time I announce that a nation or kingdom is to be uprooted, torn down and destroyed,
(Jer 18:8 NIV) and if that nation I warned repents of its evil, then I will relent and not inflict on it the disaster I had planned.
(Jer 18:9 NIV) And if at another time I announce that a nation or kingdom is to be built up and planted,
(Jer 18:10 NIV) and if it does evil in my sight and does not obey me, then I will reconsider the good I had intended to do for it.
(Jer 18:11 NIV) "Now therefore say to the people of Judah and those living in Jerusalem, ’This is what the LORD says: Look! I am preparing a disaster for you and devising a plan against you. So turn from your evil ways, each one of you, and reform your ways and your actions.’
(Jer 19:1 NIV) This is what the LORD says: "Go and buy a clay jar from a potter. Take along some of the elders of the people and of the priests
(Jer 19:2 NIV) and go out to the Valley of Ben Hinnom, near the entrance of the Potsherd Gate. There proclaim the words I tell you,
(Jer 19:3 NIV) and say, ’Hear the word of the LORD, O kings of Judah and people of Jerusalem. This is what the LORD Almighty, the God of Israel, says: Listen! I am going to bring a disaster on this place that will make the ears of everyone who hears of it tingle.
(Jer 19:4 NIV) For they have forsaken me and made this a place of foreign gods; they have burned sacrifices in it to gods that neither they nor their fathers nor the kings of Judah ever knew, and they have filled this place with the blood of the innocent.
(Jer 19:5 NIV) They have built the high places of Baal to burn their sons in the fire as offerings to Baal??something I did not command or mention, nor did it enter my mind.
(Jer 19:6 NIV) So beware, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when people will no longer call this place Topheth or the Valley of Ben Hinnom, but the Valley of Slaughter.
(Jer 19:7 NIV) "’In this place I will ruin the plans of Judah and Jerusalem. I will make them fall by the sword before their enemies, at the hands of those who seek their lives, and I will give their carcasses as food to the birds of the air and the beasts of the earth.
(Jer 19:8 NIV) I will devastate this city and make it an object of scorn; all who pass by will be appalled and will scoff because of all its wounds.
(Jer 19:9 NIV) I will make them eat the flesh of their sons and daughters, and they will eat one another’s flesh during the stress of the siege imposed on them by the enemies who seek their lives.’
(Jer 19:10 NIV) "Then break the jar while those who go with you are watching,
(Jer 19:11 NIV) and say to them, ’This is what the LORD Almighty says: I will smash this nation and this city just as this potter’s jar is smashed and cannot be repaired. They will bury the dead in Topheth until there is no more room.
(Jer 19:12 NIV) This is what I will do to this place and to those who live here, declares the LORD. I will make this city like Topheth.
(Jer 19:13 NIV) The houses in Jerusalem and those of the kings of Judah will be defiled like this place, Topheth??all the houses where they burned incense on the roofs to all the starry hosts and poured out drink offerings to other gods.’"
(Jer 19:14 NIV) Jeremiah then returned from Topheth, where the LORD had sent him to prophesy, and stood in the court of the Lord’s temple and said to all the people,
(Jer 19:15 NIV) "This is what the LORD Almighty, the God of Israel, says: ’Listen! I am going to bring on this city and the villages around it every disaster I pronounced against them, because they were stiff?necked and would not listen to my words.’"
(Mat 23:37 NIV) "O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing.
(Luke 13:34 NIV) "O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing!
(1 Pet 5:6 NIV) Humble yourselves, therefore, under God’s mighty hand, that he may lift you up in due time.
(Ezek 44:12 NIV) But because they served them in the presence of their idols and made the house of Israel fall into sin, therefore I have sworn with uplifted hand that they must bear the consequences of their sin, declares the Sovereign LORD.
P. ANTHROPOMORPHISMS which speak of God=s punishing but forgiving
(Isa 5:25 NIV) Therefore the Lord’s anger burns against his people; his hand is raised and he strikes them down. The mountains shake, and the dead bodies are like refuse in the streets. Yet for all this, his anger is not turned away, his hand is still upraised.
(Isa 38:17 NIV) Surely it was for my benefit that I suffered such anguish. In your love you kept me from the pit of destruction; you have put all my sins behind your back.
(Isa 54:1 NIV) "Sing, O barren woman, you who never bore a child; burst into song, shout for joy, you who were never in labor; because more are the children of the desolate woman than of her who has a husband," says the LORD.
(Isa 54:2 NIV) "Enlarge the place of your tent, stretch your tent curtains wide, do not hold back; lengthen your cords, strengthen your stakes.
(Isa 54:3 NIV) For you will spread out to the right and to the left; your descendants will dispossess nations and settle in their desolate cities.
(Isa 54:4 NIV) "Do not be afraid; you will not suffer shame. Do not fear disgrace; you will not be humiliated. You will forget the shame of your youth and remember no more the reproach of your widowhood.
(Isa 54:5 NIV) For your Maker is your husband?? the LORD Almighty is his name?? the Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer; he is called the God of all the earth.
(Isa 54:6 NIV) The LORD will call you back as if you were a wife deserted and distressed in spirit?? a wife who married young, only to be rejected," says your God.
(Isa 54:7 NIV) "For a brief moment I abandoned you, but with deep compassion I will bring you back.
(Isa 54:8 NIV) In a surge of anger I hid my face from you for a moment, but with everlasting kindness I will have compassion on you," says the LORD your Redeemer.
(Isa 54:9 NIV) "To me this is like the days of Noah, when I swore that the waters of Noah would never again cover the earth. So now I have sworn not to be angry with you, never to rebuke you again.
(Isa 54:10 NIV) Though the mountains be shaken and the hills be removed, yet my unfailing love for you will not be shaken nor my covenant of peace be removed," says the LORD, who has compassion on you.
(Isa 54:11 NIV) "O afflicted city, lashed by storms and not comforted, I will build you with stones of turquoise, your foundations with sapphires.
(Isa 54:12 NIV) I will make your battlements of rubies, your gates of sparkling jewels, and all your walls of precious stones.
(Isa 54:13 NIV) All your sons will be taught by the LORD, and great will be your children’s peace.
(Isa 54:14 NIV) In righteousness you will be established: Tyranny will be far from you; you will have nothing to fear. Terror will be far removed; it will not come near you.
(Isa 54:15 NIV) If anyone does attack you, it will not be my doing; whoever attacks you will surrender to you.
(Isa 54:16 NIV) "See, it is I who created the blacksmith who fans the coals into flame and forges a weapon fit for its work. And it is I who have created the destroyer to work havoc;
(Isa 54:17 NIV) no weapon forged against you will prevail, and you will refute every tongue that accuses you. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and this is their vindication from me," declares the LORD.
(Isa 65:1 NIV) "I revealed myself to those who did not ask for me; I was found by those who did not seek me. To a nation that did not call on my name, I said, ’Here am I, here am I.’
(Isa 65:2 NIV) All day long I have held out my hands to an obstinate people, who walk in ways not good, pursuing their own imaginations??
(Isa 65:3 NIV) a people who continually provoke me to my very face, offering sacrifices in gardens and burning incense on altars of brick;
(Isa 65:4 NIV) who sit among the graves and spend their nights keeping secret vigil; who eat the flesh of pigs, and whose pots hold broth of unclean meat;
(Isa 65:5 NIV) who say, ’Keep away; don’t come near me, for I am too sacred for you!’ Such people are smoke in my nostrils, a fire that keeps burning all day.
(Isa 65:6 NIV) "See, it stands written before me: I will not keep silent but will pay back in full; I will pay it back into their laps??
(Isa 65:7 NIV) both your sins and the sins of your fathers," says the LORD. "Because they burned sacrifices on the mountains and defied me on the hills, I will measure into their laps the full payment for their former deeds."
(Amos 9:1 NIV) I saw the Lord standing by the altar, and he said: "Strike the tops of the pillars so that the thresholds shake. Bring them down on the heads of all the people; those who are left I will kill with the sword. Not one will get away, none will escape.
(Amos 9:2 NIV) Though they dig down to the depths of the grave, from there my hand will take them. Though they climb up to the heavens, from there I will bring them down.
(Amos 9:3 NIV) Though they hide themselves on the top of Carmel, there I will hunt them down and seize them. Though they hide from me at the bottom of the sea, there I will command the serpent to bite them.
(Amos 9:4 NIV) Though they are driven into exile by their enemies, there I will command the sword to slay them. I will fix my eyes upon them for evil and not for good."
(Amos 9:5 NIV) The Lord, the LORD Almighty, he who touches the earth and it melts, and all who live in it mourn?? the whole land rises like the Nile, then sinks like the river of Egypt??
(Amos 9:6 NIV) he who builds his lofty palace in the heavens and sets its foundation on the earth, who calls for the waters of the sea and pours them out over the face of the land?? the LORD is his name.
(Amos 9:7 NIV) "Are not you Israelites the same to me as the Cushites ?" declares the LORD. "Did I not bring Israel up from Egypt, the Philistines from Caphtor and the Arameans from Kir?
(Amos 9:8 NIV) "Surely the eyes of the Sovereign LORD are on the sinful kingdom. I will destroy it from the face of the earth?? yet I will not totally destroy the house of Jacob," declares the LORD.
(Amos 9:9 NIV) "For I will give the command, and I will shake the house of Israel among all the nations as grain is shaken in a sieve, and not a pebble will reach the ground.
(Amos 9:10 NIV) All the sinners among my people will die by the sword, all those who say, ’Disaster will not overtake or meet us.’
(Amos 9:11 NIV) "In that day I will restore David’s fallen tent. I will repair its broken places, restore its ruins, and build it as it used to be,
(Amos 9:12 NIV) so that they may possess the remnant of Edom and all the nations that bear my name, " declares the LORD, who will do these things.
(Amos 9:13 NIV) "The days are coming," declares the LORD, "when the reaper will be overtaken by the plowman and the planter by the one treading grapes. New wine will drip from the mountains and flow from all the hills.
(Amos 9:14 NIV) I will bring back my exiled people Israel; they will rebuild the ruined cities and live in them. They will plant vineyards and drink their wine; they will make gardens and eat their fruit.
(Amos 9:15 NIV) I will plant Israel in their own land, never again to be uprooted from the land I have given them," says the LORD your God.
(Acts 15:13 NIV) When they finished, James spoke up: "Brothers, listen to me.
(Acts 15:14 NIV) Simon has described to us how God at first showed his concern by taking from the Gentiles a people for himself.
(Acts 15:15 NIV) The words of the prophets are in agreement with this, as it is written:
(Acts 15:16 NIV) "’After this I will return and rebuild David’s fallen tent. Its ruins I will rebuild, and I will restore it,
(Acts 15:17 NIV) that the remnant of men may seek the Lord, and all the Gentiles who bear my name, says the Lord, who does these things’
(Acts 15:18 NIV) that have been known for ages.
Q ANTHROPOMORPHISMS which speak of God=s gathering, of God=s putting the pieces back together
(Isa 11:10 NIV) In that day the Root of Jesse will stand as a banner for the peoples; the nations will rally to him, and his place of rest will be glorious.
(Isa 11:11 NIV) In that day the Lord will reach out his hand a second time to reclaim the remnant that is left of his people from Assyria, from Lower Egypt, from Upper Egypt, from Cush, from Elam, from Babylonia, from Hamath and from the islands of the sea.
(Isa 11:12 NIV) He will raise a banner for the nations and gather the exiles of Israel; he will assemble the scattered people of Judah from the four quarters of the earth.
(Isa 11:13 NIV) Ephraim’s jealousy will vanish, and Judah’s enemies will be cut off; Ephraim will not be jealous of Judah, nor Judah hostile toward Ephraim.
(Isa 11:14 NIV) They will swoop down on the slopes of Philistia to the west; together they will plunder the people to the east. They will lay hands on Edom and Moab, and the Ammonites will be subject to them.
(Isa 11:15 NIV) The LORD will dry up the gulf of the Egyptian sea; with a scorching wind he will sweep his hand over the Euphrates River. He will break it up into seven streams so that men can cross over in sandals.
(Isa 11:16 NIV) There will be a highway for the remnant of his people that is left from Assyria, as there was for Israel when they came up from Egypt.
(Isa 43:13 NIV) Yes, and from ancient days I am he. No one can deliver out of my hand. When I act, who can reverse it?"
R. ANTHROPOMORPHISMS which speak of God=s punishing the ungodly
(Psa 34:15 NIV) The eyes of the LORD are on the righteous and his ears are attentive to their cry;
(Psa 34:16 NIV) the face of the LORD is against those who do evil, to cut off the memory of them from the earth.
(Psa 78:65 NIV) Then the Lord awoke as from sleep, as a man wakes from the stupor of wine.
(Psa 78:66 NIV) He beat back his enemies; he put them to everlasting shame.
(1 Pet 3:12 NIV) For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous and his ears are attentive to their prayer, but the face of the Lord is against those who do evil."
S. ANTHROPOMORPHISMS which speak of God=s smashing the ungodly to pieces like a potter
(Rev 2:26 NIV) To him who overcomes and does my will to the end, I will give authority over the nations??
(Rev 2:27 NIV) ’He will rule them with an iron scepter; he will dash them to pieces like pottery’ ?? just as I have received authority from my Father.
(Rev 12:5 NIV) She gave birth to a son, a male child, who will rule all the nations with an iron scepter. And her child was snatched up to God and to his throne.
(Rev 19:11 NIV) I saw heaven standing open and there before me was a white horse, whose rider is called Faithful and True. With justice he judges and makes war.
(Rev 19:12 NIV) His eyes are like blazing fire, and on his head are many crowns. He has a name written on him that no one knows but he himself.
(Rev 19:13 NIV) He is dressed in a robe dipped in blood, and his name is the Word of God.
(Rev 19:14 NIV) The armies of heaven were following him, riding on white horses and dressed in fine linen, white and clean.
(Rev 19:15 NIV) Out of his mouth comes a sharp sword with which to strike down the nations. "He will rule them with an iron scepter." He treads the winepress of the fury of the wrath of God Almighty.
(Rev 19:16 NIV) On his robe and on his thigh he has this name written: KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS.
(Rev 19:17 NIV) And I saw an angel standing in the sun, who cried in a loud voice to all the birds flying in midair, "Come, gather together for the great supper of God,
(Rev 19:18 NIV) so that you may eat the flesh of kings, generals, and mighty men, of horses and their riders, and the flesh of all people, free and slave, small and great."
(Rev 19:19 NIV) Then I saw the beast and the kings of the earth and their armies gathered together to make war against the rider on the horse and his army.
(Rev 19:20 NIV) But the beast was captured, and with him the false prophet who had performed the miraculous signs on his behalf. With these signs he had deluded those who had received the mark of the beast and worshiped his image. The two of them were thrown alive into the fiery lake of burning sulfur.
(Rev 19:21 NIV) The rest of them were killed with the sword that came out of the mouth of the rider on the horse, and all the birds gorged themselves on their flesh.
(Psa 2:1 NIV) Why do the nations conspire and the peoples plot in vain?
(Psa 2:2 NIV) The kings of the earth take their stand and the rulers gather together against the LORD and against his Anointed One.
(Psa 2:3 NIV) "Let us break their chains," they say, "and throw off their fetters."
(Psa 2:4 NIV) The One enthroned in heaven laughs; the Lord scoffs at them.
(Psa 2:5 NIV) Then he rebukes them in his anger and terrifies them in his wrath, saying,
(Psa 2:6 NIV) "I have installed my King on Zion, my holy hill."
(Psa 2:7 NIV) I will proclaim the decree of the LORD: He said to me, "You are my Son ; today I have become your Father.
(Psa 2:8 NIV) Ask of me, and I will make the nations your inheritance, the ends of the earth your possession.
(Psa 2:9 NIV) You will rule them with an iron scepter ; you will dash them to pieces like pottery."
(Psa 2:10 NIV) Therefore, you kings, be wise; be warned, you rulers of the earth.
(Psa 2:11 NIV) Serve the LORD with fear and rejoice with trembling.
(Psa 2:12 NIV) Kiss the Son, lest he be angry and you be destroyed in your way, for his wrath can flare up in a moment. Blessed are all who take refuge in him.
(Heb 1:13 NIV) To which of the angels did God ever say, "Sit at my right hand until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet"?
(Heb 10:13 NIV) Since that time he waits for his enemies to be made his footstool,
