Quotes about Power
For I am like a lion to Ephraim and like a young lion to the house of Judah. I, even I, will tear them to pieces and then go away. I will carry them off where no one can rescue them.
- Hosea 5:14
They set up kings, but not by Me. They make princes, but without My approval. With their silver and gold they make themselves idols, to their own destruction.
- Hosea 8:4
Surely now they will say, “We have no king, for we do not revere the LORD. What can a king do for us?”
- Hosea 10:3
Samaria will be carried off with her king like a twig on the surface of the water.
- Hosea 10:7
They will walk after the LORD; He will roar like a lion. When He roars, His children will come trembling from the west.
- Hosea 11:10
So like a lion I will pounce on them; like a leopard I will lurk by the path.
- Hosea 13:7
Where is your king now to save you in all your cities, and the rulers to whom you said, “Give me a king and princes”?
- Hosea 13:10
I will ransom them from the power of Sheol; I will redeem them from Death. Where, O Death, are your plagues? Where, O Sheol, is your sting? Compassion is hidden from My eyes.
- Hosea 13:14
Their appearance is like that of horses, and they gallop like swift steeds.
- Joel 2:4
With a sound like that of chariots they bound over the mountaintops, like the crackling of fire consuming stubble, like a mighty army deployed for battle.
- Joel 2:5
Beat your plowshares into swords and your pruning hooks into spears. Let the weak say, ‘I am strong!’
- Joel 3:10
So I will send fire upon the house of Hazael to consume the citadels of Ben-hadad.
- Amos 1:4