Quotes about Power
Folly is appointed to great heights, but the rich sit in lowly positions.
- Ecclesiastes 10:6
I have seen slaves on horseback, while princes go on foot like slaves.
- Ecclesiastes 10:7
Do not curse the king even in your thoughts, or curse the rich even in your bedroom, for a bird of the air may carry your words, and a winged creature may report your speech.
- Ecclesiastes 10:20
The strong man will become tinder and his work will be a spark; both will burn together, with no one to quench the flames.
- Isaiah 1:31
against every high tower, against every fortified wall,
- Isaiah 2:15
against every ship of Tarshish, and against every stately vessel.
- Isaiah 2:16
“I will make mere lads their leaders, and children will rule over them.”
- Isaiah 3:4
A man will seize his brother within his father’s house: “You have a cloak—you be our leader! Take charge of this heap of rubble.”
- Isaiah 3:6
Why do you crush My people and grind the faces of the poor?” declares the Lord GOD of Hosts.
- Isaiah 3:15
Their arrows are sharpened, and all their bows are strung. The hooves of their horses are like flint; their chariot wheels are like a whirlwind.
- Isaiah 5:28
Their roaring is like that of a lion; they roar like young lions. They growl and seize their prey; they carry it away from deliverance.
- Isaiah 5:29
Now in the days that Ahaz son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, was king of Judah, Rezin king of Aram marched up to wage war against Jerusalem. He was accompanied by Pekah son of Remaliah the king of Israel, but he could not overpower the city.
- Isaiah 7:1