Quotes about Power
‘Let us invade Judah, terrorize it, and divide it among ourselves. Then we can install the son of Tabeal over it as king.’
— Isaiah 7:6
On that day the Lord will use a razor hired from beyond the Euphrates—the king of Assyria—to shave your head and the hair of your legs, and to remove your beard as well.
— Isaiah 7:20
Woe to Assyria, the rod of My anger; the staff in their hands is My wrath.
— Isaiah 10:5
I will send him against a godless nation; I will dispatch him against a people destined for My rage, to take spoils and seize plunder, and to trample them down like clay in the streets.
— Isaiah 10:6
“Are not all my commanders kings?” he says.
— Isaiah 10:8
Does an axe raise itself above the one who swings it? Does a saw boast over him who saws with it? It would be like a rod waving the one who lifts it, or a staff lifting him who is not wood!
— Isaiah 10:15
Behold, the Lord GOD of Hosts will lop off the branches with terrifying power. The tall trees will be cut down, the lofty ones will be felled.
— Isaiah 10:33
Behold, I will stir up against them the Medes, who have no regard for silver and no desire for gold.
— Isaiah 13:17
The LORD has broken the staff of the wicked, the scepter of the rulers.
— Isaiah 14:5
You said in your heart: “I will ascend to the heavens; I will raise my throne above the stars of God. I will sit on the mount of assembly, in the far reaches of the north.
— Isaiah 14:13
Those who see you will stare; they will ponder your fate: “Is this the man who shook the earth and made the kingdoms tremble,
— Isaiah 14:16
The LORD of Hosts has purposed, and who can thwart Him? His hand is outstretched, so who can turn it back?
— Isaiah 14:27