Isaiah 30:31
For Assyria will be shattered at the voice of the LORD; He will strike them with His scepter.
BSB
ASV
For through the voice of Jehovah shall the Assyrian be dismayed; with his rod will he smite him.
KJV
For through the voice of the Lord shall the Assyrian be beaten down, which smote with a rod.
For through the voice of the - Lord By the command of the Lord; that is, his voice going forth in the manner specified in Isa 30:30. Which smote with a rod - Who was accustomed to smite as with a rod; that is, his government was tyrannical and severe. As he had been accustomed to smite in that manner, so he would now meet the proper reward of his oppression of the nations.
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Isaiah 9:4For as in the day of Midian You have shattered the yoke of their burden, the bar across their shoulders, and the rod of their oppressor.
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I will break Assyria in My land; I will trample him on My mountain. His yoke will be taken off My people, and his burden removed from their shoulders.”
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On that day, declares the LORD of Hosts, I will break the yoke off their necks and tear off their bonds, and no longer will strangers enslave them.
And the LORD of Hosts will brandish a whip against them, as when He struck Midian at the rock of Oreb. He will raise His staff over the sea, as He did in Egypt.
For I will now break their yoke from your neck and tear away your shackles.”
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Isaiah 11:4but with righteousness He will judge the poor, and with equity He will decide for the lowly of the earth. He will strike the earth with the rod of His mouth and slay the…
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And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord Jesus will slay with the breath of His mouth and annihilate by the majesty of His arrival.
And from His mouth proceeds a sharp sword with which to strike down the nations, and He will rule them with an iron scepter. He treads the winepress of the fury of the wrath…
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Psalms 125:5But those who turn to crooked ways the LORD will banish with the evildoers. Peace be upon Israel.
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The way of peace they have not known, and there is no justice in their tracks. They have turned them into crooked paths; no one who treads on them will know peace.
whose paths are crooked and whose ways are devious.