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Ezekiel 30:18 (NIV)

Dark will be the day at Tahpanhes when I break the yoke of Egypt; there her proud strength will come to an end. She will be covered with clouds, and her villages will go into captivity.

Ezekiel 24:22 (NIV)

And you will do as I have done. You will not cover your mustache and beard or eat the customary food of mourners.

Like a lion coming up from Jordan’s thickets to a rich pastureland, I will chase Babylon from its land in an instant. Who is the chosen one I will appoint for this? Who is like me and who can challenge me? And what shepherd can stand against me?”

Jeremiah 8:4 (NIV)

“Say to them, ‘This is what the Lord says: “ ‘When people fall down, do they not get up? When someone turns away, do they not return?

Job 9:12 (NIV)

If he snatches away, who can stop him? Who can say to him, ‘What are you doing?’

1 Timothy 3:5 (NIV)

(If anyone does not know how to manage his own family, how can he take care of God’s church?)

1 Timothy 3:7 (NIV)

He must also have a good reputation with outsiders, so that he will not fall into disgrace and into the devil’s trap.

Ezekiel 30:17 (NIV)

The young men of Heliopolis and Bubastis will fall by the sword, and the cities themselves will go into captivity.

Isaiah 55:11 (NIV)

so is my word that goes out from my mouth: It will not return to me empty, but will accomplish what I desire and achieve the purpose for which I sent it.

Psalms 46:2 (NIV)

Therefore we will not fear, though the earth give way and the mountains fall into the heart of the sea,

Deuteronomy 1:43 (NIV)

So I told you, but you would not listen. You rebelled against the Lord ’s command and in your arrogance you marched up into the hill country.

Ezekiel 33:28 (NIV)

I will make the land a desolate waste, and her proud strength will come to an end, and the mountains of Israel will become desolate so that no one will cross them.

Ezekiel 33:27 (NIV)

“Say this to them: ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: As surely as I live, those who are left in the ruins will fall by the sword, those out in the country I will give to the wild animals to be devoured, and those in strongholds and caves will die of a plague.

Isaiah 32:19 (NIV)

Though hail flattens the forest and the city is leveled completely,

Job 18:8 (NIV)

His feet thrust him into a net; he wanders into its mesh.

Joel 2:7 (NIV)

They charge like warriors; they scale walls like soldiers. They all march in line, not swerving from their course.

Zechariah 9:7 (NIV)

I will take the blood from their mouths, the forbidden food from between their teeth. Those who are left will belong to our God and become a clan in Judah, and Ekron will be like the Jebusites.

Jeremiah 12:5 (NIV)

“If you have raced with men on foot and they have worn you out, how can you compete with horses? If you stumble in safe country, how will you manage in the thickets by the Jordan?

Psalms 46:3 (NIV)

though its waters roar and foam and the mountains quake with their surging.

1 Corinthians 14:25 (NIV)

as the secrets of their hearts are laid bare. So they will fall down and worship God, exclaiming, “God is really among you!”

Isaiah 25:12 (NIV)

He will bring down your high fortified walls and lay them low; he will bring them down to the ground, to the very dust.

2 Samuel 3:34 (NIV)

Your hands were not bound, your feet were not fettered. You fell as one falls before the wicked.” And all the people wept over him again.

Psalms 59:12 (NIV)

For the sins of their mouths, for the words of their lips, let them be caught in their pride. For the curses and lies they utter,

Psalms 20:8 (NIV)

They are brought to their knees and fall, but we rise up and stand firm.

Psalms 56:2 (NIV)

My adversaries pursue me all day long; in their pride many are attacking me.