Isaiah 37:29

WEB

²⁹Because of your raging against me, and because your arrogance has come up into my ears, therefore I will put my hook in your nose and my bridle in your lips, and I will turn you back by the way by which you came.

KJV

²⁹Because thy rage^[+] against me, and thy tumult, is come up into mine ears, therefore will I put my hook in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest.

BSB

²⁹Because your rage and arrogance against Me have reached My ears, I will put My hook in your nose and My bit in your mouth; I will send you back the way you came.’

FBV

²⁹Because of your furious anger against me, and because I know how you disrespect me, I'm going to put my hook in your nose and my bit in your mouth, and I will force you to return the same way you came.

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Extra References

Isaiah 30:28

²⁸His breath is as an overflowing stream that reaches even to the neck, to sift the nations with the sieve of destruction. A bridle that leads to ruin will be in the jaws of the peoples.

Ezekiel 38:4

⁴I will turn you around, and put hooks into your jaws, and I will bring you out, with all your army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed in full armor, a great company with buckler and shield, all of them handling swords;

Isaiah 37:34

³⁴He will return the way that he came, and he won’t come to this city,’ says the LORD.

Isaiah 10:12

¹²Therefore it will happen that when the Lord has performed his whole work on Mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the willful proud heart of the king of Assyria, and the insolence of his arrogant looks.

Ezekiel 29:4

⁴I will put hooks in your jaws, and I will make the fish of your rivers stick to your scales. I will bring you up out of the middle of your rivers, with all the fish of your rivers which stick to your scales.

Psalms 83:2

²For, behold, your enemies are stirred up. Those who hate you have lifted up their heads.

Job 15:25-26

²⁵Because he has stretched out his hand against God, and behaves himself proudly against the Almighty, ²⁶he runs at him with a stiff neck, with the thick shields of his bucklers,

Nahum 1:9-11

⁹What do you plot against the LORD? He will make a full end. Affliction won’t rise up the second time. ¹⁰For entangled like thorns, and drunken as with their drink, they are consumed utterly like dry stubble. ¹¹One has gone out of you who devises evil against the LORD, who counsels wickedness.

Psalms 74:23

²³Don’t forget the voice of your adversaries. The tumult of those who rise up against you ascends continually.

Amos 4:2

²The Lord GOD has sworn by his holiness, “Behold, the days shall come on you that they will take you away with hooks, and the last of you with fish hooks.