Yea, I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, and the arms of Pharaoh shall fail; and they shall know that I am the Lord, when I have put My sword into the hands of the king of Babylon, and he shall stretch it out over the land of Egypt.

For all were trying to alarm us, saying, Their hands shall be weakened from this work, and it shall not be done. Now therefore I have strengthened my hands.

[It is] God that girds me with strength, and has made my way blameless;

For You have girded me with strength for war; You have beaten down under me all that rose up against me.

[A Psalm] of David concerning Goliath. Blessed [be] the Lord my God, who instructs my hands for battle, [and] my fingers for war.

Thus says the Lord God to My anointed Cyrus, whose right hand I have held, that nations might be obedient before him; and I will break through the strength of kings; I will open doors before him, and cities shall not be closed.

For I am the Lord God, and there is no other God beside Me; I strengthened you, and you have not known Me.

I have given the earth to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon to serve him, and the wild beasts of the field to labor for him.

And the nation and kingdom, all that shall not put their neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, with sword and famine will I visit them, says the Lord, until they are consumed by his hand.

And they shall pass through a narrow sea, they shall smite the waves in the sea, and all the deep places of the rivers shall be dried up: and all the pride of the Assyrians shall be taken away, and the scepter of Egypt shall be removed.

And I will strengthen them in the Lord their God; and they shall boast in His name, says the Lord.

For I will sharpen My sword like lightning, and My hand shall take hold of judgment; and I will render judgment to My enemies, and will recompense them that hate Me.

I will make My weapons drunk with blood, and My sword shall devour flesh[, it shall gorge itself] with the blood of the wounded, and from the captivity of the heads of [their] enemies that rule over them.

Arise, O Lord, prevent them, and cast them down; deliver my soul from the ungodly; [draw] Your sword,

Woe to the Assyrians; the rod of My wrath and anger are in their hands.

I will send My wrath against a sinful nation, and I will command My people to take plunder and spoil, and to trample the cities, and to make dust out of them.

Shall the ax glorify itself without him that chops with it? Or shall the saw lift itself up without him that uses it, as if one should lift a rod or staff? But it shall not be so;

You Ethiopians also are the slain of My sword.

For thus says the Lord God to Tyre: Shall not the isles shake at the sound of your fall, while the wounded are groaning, while they have drawn a sword in the midst of you?

Who have cast forth the poor from the city and their own houses, and the soul of the children has groaned aloud.

Therefore behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will take vengeance upon her graven [images;] and slain men shall fall in all her land.