Isaiah 8:1-9:7
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Then the Lord said to me, "Take a large tablet w and write on it in common characters, 'Belonging to Maher-shalal-hash-baz.'
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And x I will get reliable witnesses, y Uriah the priest and Zechariah the son of Jeberechiah, to attest for me."
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And I went to the prophetess, and she conceived and bore a son. Then the Lord said to me, z "Call his name Maher-shalal-hash-baz;
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a for before the boy knows how to cry 'My father' or 'My mother,' the a wealth of b Damascus and the spoil of b Samaria will be carried away before the king of Assyria."
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The Lord spoke to me again:
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"Because this people has refused the waters of c Shiloah that flow gently, and rejoice over d Rezin and the son of Remaliah,
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therefore, behold, the Lord is bringing up against them e the waters of f the River, mighty and many, the king of Assyria and all his glory. And it g will rise over all its channels and go over all its banks,
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and it will sweep on into Judah, it will overflow and pass on, h reaching even to the neck, and its i outspread wings will fill the breadth of your land, j O Immanuel."
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Be broken, you peoples, and k be shattered;
give ear, all you far countries;
strap on your armor and be shattered;
strap on your armor and be shattered.
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Take counsel together, but it will come to nothing;
speak a word, l but it will not stand,
for God m is with us.
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For the Lord spoke thus to me with his strong hand upon me, and n warned me not to walk in the way of this people, saying:
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"Do not call o conspiracy all that this people calls conspiracy, and p do not fear what they fear, nor be in dread.
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But the Lord of hosts, q him you shall honor as holy. Let him be your fear, and let him be your dread.
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And he will become a r sanctuary and s a stone of offense and a rock of stumbling to both houses of Israel, a trap and a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
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And many t shall stumble on it. They shall fall and be broken; they shall be snared and taken."
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Bind up u the testimony; v seal the teaching among my disciples.
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I will w wait for the Lord, who is x hiding his face from the house of Jacob, and I will hope in him.
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y Behold, I and z the children whom the Lord has given me are signs and portents in Israel from the Lord of hosts, who dwells on Mount Zion.
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And when they say to you, "Inquire of the a mediums and the necromancers who chirp and mutter," should not a people inquire of their God? Should they inquire of b the dead on behalf of the living?
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c To the teaching and to the testimony! If they will not speak according to this word, it is because they have no d dawn.
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They will pass through the land, greatly distressed and hungry. And when they are hungry, they will be enraged and will speak contemptuously against their king and their God, and turn their faces upward.
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e And they will look to the earth, but behold, distress and darkness, the gloom of anguish. And they will be thrust into f thick darkness.
Isaiah 9
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But there will be no g gloom for her who was in anguish. In the former time he h brought into contempt the land of i Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, but in the latter time he j has made glorious the way of the sea, the land beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the nations.
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i The people k who walked in darkness
have seen a great light;
those who dwelt in a land of l deep darkness,
on them has light shined.
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m You have multiplied the nation;
you have increased its joy;
they rejoice before you
as with n joy at the harvest,
as they o are glad p when they divide the spoil.
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q For the yoke of his burden,
r and the staff for his shoulder,
the rod of his oppressor,
you have broken as s on the day of Midian.
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t For every boot of the tramping warrior in battle tumult
and every garment rolled in blood
will be burned as fuel for the fire.
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u For to us a child is born,
to us v a son is given;
w and the government shall be x upon his shoulder,
and his name shall be called
Wonderful y Counselor, z Mighty God,
a Everlasting b Father, Prince of c Peace.
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Of the increase of his government and of peace
d there will be no end,
on the throne of David and over his kingdom,
to establish it and to uphold it
e with justice and with righteousness
from this time forth and forevermore.
f The zeal of the Lord of hosts will do this.
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Isaiah 30:8
And now, go, write it before them on a tablet and inscribe it in a book, that it may be for the time to come as a witness forever.
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Isaiah 43:10
You are my witnesses," declares the Lord, "and my servant whom I have chosen, that you may know and believe me and understand that I am he. Before me no god was formed, nor shall there be any after me.
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2 Kings 16:10 - 11
When King Ahaz went to Damascus to meet Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria, he saw the altar that was at Damascus. And King Ahaz sent to Uriah the priest a model of the altar, and its pattern, exact in all its details.
2 Kings 16:15 - 16
And King Ahaz commanded Uriah the priest, saying, "On the great altar burn the morning burnt offering and the evening grain offering and the king's burnt offering and his grain offering, with the burnt offering of all the people of the land, and their grain offering and their drink offering. And throw on it all the blood of the burnt offering and all the blood of the sacrifice, but the bronze altar shall be for me to inquire by.
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Hosea 1:4
And the Lord said to him, "Call his name Jezreel, for in just a little while I will punish the house of Jehu for the blood of Jezreel, and I will put an end to the kingdom of the house of Israel.
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Isaiah 7:16
For before the boy knows how to refuse the evil and choose the good, the land whose two kings you dread will be deserted.
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Isaiah 7:16
For before the boy knows how to refuse the evil and choose the good, the land whose two kings you dread will be deserted.
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Isaiah 7:8 - 9
For the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin. And within sixty-five years Ephraim will be shattered from being a people.
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Isaiah 7:8 - 9
For the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin. And within sixty-five years Ephraim will be shattered from being a people.
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Nehemiah 3:15
And Shallum the son of Col-hozeh, ruler of the district of Mizpah, repaired the Fountain Gate. He rebuilt it and covered it and set its doors, its bolts, and its bars. And he built the wall of the Pool of Shelah of the king's garden, as far as the stairs that go down from the city of David.
John 9:7
And said to him, "Go, wash in the pool of Siloam" (which means Sent). So he went and washed and came back seeing.
John 9:11
He answered, "The man called Jesus made mud and anointed my eyes and said to me, 'Go to Siloam and wash.' So I went and washed and received my sight.
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Isaiah 7:1
In the days of Ahaz the son of Jotham, son of Uzziah, king of Judah, Rezin the king of Syria and Pekah the son of Remaliah the king of Israel came up to Jerusalem to wage war against it, but could not yet mount an attack against it.
Isaiah 7:4
And say to him, 'Be careful, be quiet, do not fear, and do not let your heart be faint because of these two smoldering stumps of firebrands, at the fierce anger of Rezin and Syria and the son of Remaliah.
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Isaiah 17:12 - 13
Ah, the thunder of many peoples; they thunder like the thundering of the sea! Ah, the roar of nations; they roar like the roaring of mighty waters!
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Isaiah 7:20
In that day the Lord will shave with a razor that is hired beyond the River - with the king of Assyria - the head and the hair of the feet, and it will sweep away the beard also.
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Jeremiah 46:8
Egypt rises like the Nile, like rivers whose waters surge. He said, 'I will rise, I will cover the earth, I will destroy cities and their inhabitants.
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Isaiah 30:28
His breath is like an overflowing stream that reaches up to the neck; to sift the nations with the sieve of destruction, and to place on the jaws of the peoples a bridle that leads astray.
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Isaiah 36:1
In the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah, Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the fortified cities of Judah and took them.
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Isaiah 7:14
Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.
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Daniel 2:34 - 35
As you looked, a stone was cut out by no human hand, and it struck the image on its feet of iron and clay, and broke them in pieces.
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Isaiah 7:7
Thus says the Lord God : "'It shall not stand, and it shall not come to pass.
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Isaiah 8:8
And it will sweep on into Judah, it will overflow and pass on, reaching even to the neck, and its outspread wings will fill the breadth of your land, O Immanuel.
Romans 8:31
What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?
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Ezekiel 2:8
"But you, son of man, hear what I say to you. Be not rebellious like that rebellious house; open your mouth and eat what I give you."
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Isaiah 7:2
When the house of David was told, "Syria is in league with Ephraim," the heart of Ahaz and the heart of his people shook as the trees of the forest shake before the wind.
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1 Peter 3:14 - 15
But even if you should suffer for righteousness' sake, you will be blessed. Have no fear of them, nor be troubled.
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Numbers 20:12
And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, "Because you did not believe in me, to uphold me as holy in the eyes of the people of Israel, therefore you shall not bring this assembly into the land that I have given them.
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Ezekiel 11:16
Therefore say, 'Thus says the Lord God : Though I removed them far off among the nations, and though I scattered them among the countries, yet I have been a sanctuary to them for a while in the countries where they have gone.
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Romans 9:33
As it is written, "Behold, I am laying in Zion a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offense; and whoever believes in him will not be put to shame.
1 Peter 2:8
And "A stone of stumbling, and a rock of offense." They stumble because they disobey the word, as they were destined to do.
Isaiah 28:16
Therefore thus says the Lord God, "Behold, I am the one who has laid as a foundation in Zion, a stone, a tested stone, a precious cornerstone, of a sure foundation: 'Whoever believes will not be in haste.
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Isaiah 28:13
And the word of the Lord will be to them precept upon precept, precept upon precept, line upon line, line upon line, here a little, there a little, that they may go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.
Matthew 21:44
And the one who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces; and when it falls on anyone, it will crush him.
Luke 20:18
Everyone who falls on that stone will be broken to pieces, and when it falls on anyone, it will crush him.
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Isaiah 8:1 - 2
Then the Lord said to me, "Take a large tablet and write on it in common characters, 'Belonging to Maher-shalal-hash-baz.
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Daniel 12:4
But you, Daniel, shut up the words and seal the book, until the time of the end. Many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall increase.
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Psalms 27:14
Wait for the Lord ; be strong, and let your heart take courage; wait for the Lord!
Psalms 33:20
Our soul waits for the Lord ; he is our help and our shield.
Habakkuk 2:3
For still the vision awaits its appointed time; it hastens to the end - it will not lie. If it seems slow, wait for it; it will surely come; it will not delay.
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Isaiah 1:15
When you spread out your hands, I will hide my eyes from you; even though you make many prayers, I will not listen; your hands are full of blood.
Isaiah 54:8
In overflowing anger for a moment I hid my face from you, but with everlasting love I will have compassion on you," says the Lord, your Redeemer.
Deuteronomy 31:17
Then my anger will be kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake them and hide my face from them, and they will be devoured. And many evils and troubles will come upon them, so that they will say in that day, 'Have not these evils come upon us because our God is not among us?
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Hebrews 2:13
And again, "I will put my trust in him." And again, "Behold, I and the children God has given me.
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Isaiah 7:3
And the Lord said to Isaiah, "Go out to meet Ahaz, you and Shear-jashub your son, at the end of the conduit of the upper pool on the highway to the Washer's Field.
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Isaiah 19:3
And the spirit of the Egyptians within them will be emptied out, and I will confound their counsel; and they will inquire of the idols and the sorcerers, and the mediums and the necromancers.
2 Kings 21:6
And he burned his son as an offering and used fortune-telling and omens and dealt with mediums and with necromancers. He did much evil in the sight of the Lord, provoking him to anger.
2 Kings 23:24
Moreover, Josiah put away the mediums and the necromancers and the household gods and the idols and all the abominations that were seen in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, that he might establish the words of the law that were written in the book that Hilkiah the priest found in the house of the Lord.
2 Chronicles 33:6
And he burned his sons as an offering in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, and used fortune-telling and omens and sorcery, and dealt with mediums and with necromancers. He did much evil in the sight of the Lord, provoking him to anger.
Leviticus 19:31
Do not turn to mediums or necromancers; do not seek them out, and so make yourselves unclean by them: I am the Lord your God.
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Psalms 106:28
Then they yoked themselves to the Baal of Peor, and ate sacrifices offered to the dead.
1 Samuel 28:11 - 14
Then the woman said, "Whom shall I bring up for you?" He said, "Bring up Samuel for me.
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Luke 16:29
But Abraham said, 'They have Moses and the Prophets; let them hear them.
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Isaiah 60:1
Arise, shine, for your light has come, and the glory of the Lord has risen upon you.
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Isaiah 5:30
They will growl over it on that day, like the growling of the sea. And if one looks to the land, behold, darkness and distress; and the light is darkened by its clouds.
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Nahum 1:8
But with an overflowing flood he will make a complete end of the adversaries, and will pursue his enemies into darkness.
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Isaiah 8:22
And they will look to the earth, but behold, distress and darkness, the gloom of anguish. And they will be thrust into thick darkness.
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2 Kings 15:29
In the days of Pekah king of Israel, Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria came and captured Ijon, Abel-beth-maacah, Janoah, Kedesh, Hazor, Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali, and he carried the people captive to Assyria.
2 Chronicles 16:4
And Ben-hadad listened to King Asa and sent the commanders of his armies against the cities of Israel, and they conquered Ijon, Dan, Abel-maim, and all the store cities of Naphtali.
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Matthew 4:15 - 16
The land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, the way of the sea, beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles -
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Isaiah 26:15
But you have increased the nation, O Lord, you have increased the nation; you are glorified; you have enlarged all the borders of the land.
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Isaiah 9:1
But there will be no gloom for her who was in anguish. In the former time he brought into contempt the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, but in the latter time he has made glorious the way of the sea, the land beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the nations.
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Luke 1:79
To give light to those who sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace.
Ephesians 5:8
For at one time you were darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light
Ephesians 5:14
For anything that becomes visible is light. Therefore it says, "Awake, O sleeper, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.
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Job 3:5
Let gloom and deep darkness claim it. Let clouds dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.
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Isaiah 26:15
But you have increased the nation, O Lord, you have increased the nation; you are glorified; you have enlarged all the borders of the land.
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Psalms 4:7
You have put more joy in my heart than they have when their grain and wine abound.
John 4:36
Already the one who reaps is receiving wages and gathering fruit for eternal life, so that sower and reaper may rejoice together.
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Psalms 119:162
I rejoice at your word like one who finds great spoil.
1 Samuel 30:16
And when he had taken him down, behold, they were spread abroad over all the land, eating and drinking and dancing, because of all the great spoil they had taken from the land of the Philistines and from the land of Judah.
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Judges 5:30
'Have they not found and divided the spoil? - A womb or two for every man; spoil of dyed materials for Sisera, spoil of dyed materials embroidered, two pieces of dyed work embroidered for the neck as spoil?'
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Isaiah 10:27
And in that day his burden will depart from your shoulder, and his yoke from your neck; and the yoke will be broken because of the fat.
Isaiah 14:25
That I will break the Assyrian in my land, and on my mountains trample him underfoot; and his yoke shall depart from them, and his burden from their shoulder.
Nahum 1:13
And now I will break his yoke from off you and will burst your bonds apart.
Matthew 11:29
Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.
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Isaiah 10:5
Ah, Assyria, the rod of my anger; the staff in their hands is my fury!
Isaiah 10:24
Therefore thus says the Lord God of hosts: "O my people, who dwell in Zion, be not afraid of the Assyrians when they strike with the rod and lift up their staff against you as the Egyptians did.
Isaiah 14:5
The Lord has broken the staff of the wicked, the scepter of rulers.
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Isaiah 10:26
And the Lord of hosts will wield against them a whip, as when he struck Midian at the rock of Oreb. And his staff will be over the sea, and he will lift it as he did in Egypt.
Psalms 83:9
Do to them as you did to Midian, as to Sisera and Jabin at the river Kishon.
Judges 7:19 - 25
So Gideon and the hundred men who were with him came to the outskirts of the camp at the beginning of the middle watch, when they had just set the watch. And they blew the trumpets and smashed the jars that were in their hands.
Judges 8:10 - 21
Now Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor with their army, about 15,000 men, all who were left of all the army of the people of the East, for there had fallen 120,000 men who drew the sword.
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Ezekiel 39:9
Then those who dwell in the cities of Israel will go out and make fires of the weapons and burn them, shields and bucklers, bow and arrows, clubs and spears; and they will make fires of them for seven years.
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Luke 2:11
For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, who is Christ the Lord.
John 3:16
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
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Isaiah 7:14
Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.
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Matthew 28:18
And Jesus came and said to them, "All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.
1 Corinthians 15:25
For he must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet.
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Isaiah 22:22
And I will place on his shoulder the key of the house of David. He shall open, and none shall shut; and he shall shut, and none shall open.
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Isaiah 28:29
This also comes from the Lord of hosts; he is wonderful in counsel and excellent in wisdom.
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Isaiah 10:21
A remnant will return, the remnant of Jacob, to the mighty God.
Deuteronomy 10:17
For the Lord your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great, the mighty, and the awesome God, who is not partial and takes no bribe.
Nehemiah 9:32
Now, therefore, our God, the great, the mighty, and the awesome God, who keeps covenant and steadfast love, let not all the hardship seem little to you that has come upon us, upon our kings, our princes, our priests, our prophets, our fathers, and all your people, since the time of the kings of Assyria until this day.
Jeremiah 32:18
You show steadfast love to thousands, but you repay the guilt of fathers to their children after them, O great and mighty God, whose name is the Lord of hosts.
Psalms 45:3
Gird your sword on your thigh, O mighty one, in your splendor and majesty!
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Psalms 72:17
May his name endure forever, his fame continue as long as the sun! May people be blessed in him, all nations call him blessed!
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Isaiah 63:16
For you are our Father, though Abraham does not know us, and Israel does not acknowledge us; you, O Lord, are our Father, our Redeemer from of old is your name.
John 14:18
I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you.
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Psalms 72:7
In his days may the righteous flourish, and peace abound, till the moon be no more!
Ephesians 2:14
For he himself is our peace, who has made us both one and has broken down in his flesh the dividing wall of hostility
Isaiah 11:6 - 9
The wolf shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the young goat, and the calf and the lion and the fattened calf together; and a little child shall lead them.
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Psalms 89:4
I will establish your offspring forever, and build your throne for all generations.'" Selah
Luke 1:32 - 33
He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High. And the Lord God will give to him the throne of his father David.
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Jeremiah 23:5
Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will raise up for David a righteous Branch, and he shall reign as king and deal wisely, and shall execute justice and righteousness in the land.
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Isaiah 37:32
For out of Jerusalem shall go a remnant, and out of Mount Zion a band of survivors. The zeal of the Lord of hosts will do this.
2 Kings 19:31
For out of Jerusalem shall go a remnant, and out of Mount Zion a band of survivors. The zeal of the Lord will do this.
Zechariah 1:14
So the angel who talked with me said to me, 'Cry out, Thus says the Lord of hosts: I am exceedingly jealous for Jerusalem and for Zion.
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