Isaiah 37:29

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Because 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.

Rage

Tumult

Will i

General references

James 3:3

Bible References

Rage

“You shall say to Hezekiah king of Judah, ‘Do not let your God in whom you trust deceive you, saying, “Jerusalem will not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.”

Then the Rabshakeh said to them, “Say to Hezekiah, ‘This is what the great king, the king of Assyria says, “What is [the reason for] this confidence that you have?

‘But I [the Lord] know your sitting down [O Sennacherib],
Your going out, your coming in,
And your raging against Me.

“Because he has stretched out his hand against God
And behaves arrogantly against the Almighty,

Why are the nations in an uproar [in turmoil against God],
And why do the people devise a vain and hopeless plot?

The nations made an uproar, the kingdoms tottered and were moved;
He raised His voice, the earth melted.

The floods have lifted up, O Lord,
The floods have lifted up their voice;
The floods lift up their pounding waves.

Whatever [plot] you [Assyrians] devise against the Lord,
He will make a complete end of it;
Affliction [of God’s people by the hand of Assyria] will not occur twice.

If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have [the guilt of their] sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin.

and he fell to the ground and heard a voice [from heaven] saying to him, “Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting and oppressing Me?”

Tumult

In the midst of Your meeting place Your enemies have roared [with their battle cry];
They have set up their own emblems for signs [of victory].

For behold, Your enemies are in tumult,
And those who hate You have raised their heads [in hatred of You].

So when Pilate saw that he was getting nowhere, but rather that a riot was breaking out, he took water and washed his hands [to ceremonially cleanse himself of guilt] in the presence of the crowd, saying, “I am innocent of this [righteous] Man’s blood; see to that yourselves.”

They listened to Paul until [he made] this [last] statement, but now they raised their voices and shouted, “Away with such a man from the earth! He is not fit to live!”

Will i

His breath is like an overflowing river,
Which reaches to the neck,
To sift the nations back and forth in a sieve [of disaster],
And to put in the jaws of the peoples the bridle which leads to ruin.

“Can you put a rope [made] of rushes into his nose
Or pierce his jaw through with a hook?

Do not be like the horse or like the mule which have no understanding,
Whose trappings include bridle and rein to hold them in check,
Otherwise they will not come near to you.

“I will put hooks in your jaws
And [I will] make the fish of your rivers stick to your scales.
And I will pull you up from the midst of your rivers,
And all the fish of your rivers will stick to your scales.

I will turn you around and put hooks into your jaws, and I will bring you out, and all your army, horses and horsemen, all of them magnificently clothed in full armor, a great horde with buckler (small shield) and [large] shield, all of them wielding swords;

The Lord God has sworn [an oath] by His holiness
That, “Behold, the days are coming upon you
When they shall take you away with meat hooks,
And the last of you with fish hooks.

General references

Since you are still [arrogantly] exalting yourself [in defiance] against My people by not letting them go,

“Can you put a rope [made] of rushes into his nose
Or pierce his jaw through with a hook?

for this is what the Lord God says, “It shall not stand nor shall it happen.

By the way that he came, by the same way he will return, and he will not come into this city,’ declares the Lord.

Now if we put bits into the horses’ mouths to make them obey us, we guide their whole body as well.