Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
I have laid a snare for thee, and thou art also taken, O Babylon, and thou wast not aware: thou art found, and also caught, because thou hast striven against the LORD.
Snare
And thou wast
Bible References
Snare
Ecclesiastes 9:12
For man certainly does not know his time: like fish caught in a cruel net or like birds caught in a trap, so people are trapped in an evil time as it suddenly falls on them.
And thou wast
Jeremiah 51:8 Suddenly Babylon fell and was shattered.
Wail for her;
get balm for her wound—
perhaps she can be healed.
Wail for her;
get balm
perhaps she can be healed.
Isaiah 21:3 Therefore I am filled with anguish.
Pain grips me, like the pain of a woman in labor.
I am too perplexed to hear,
too dismayed to see.
Pain grips me, like the pain of a woman in labor.
I am too perplexed to hear,
too dismayed to see.
Daniel 5:30
That very night Belshazzar the king of the Chaldeans was killed,
Revelation 18:7 As much as she glorified herself and lived luxuriously,
give her that much torment and grief,
for she says in her heart,
“I sit as a queen;
I am not a widow,
and I will never see grief.”
give her that much torment and grief,
for she says in her heart,
“I sit as a queen;
I am not a widow,
and I will never see grief.”
Because
Exodus 10:3
So Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh and told him, “This is what Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews, says: How long will you refuse to humble yourself before Me? Let My people go, that they may worship Me.
Job 9:4 God is wise and all-powerful.
Who has opposed Him and come out unharmed?
Who has opposed Him and come out unharmed?
Job 40:2 Will the one who contends with the Almighty correct Him?
Let him who argues with God give an answer.
Let him who argues with God give an answer.
Isaiah 13:11 I will bring disaster on the world,
and their own iniquity, on the wicked.
I will put an end to the pride of the arrogant
and humiliate the insolence of tyrants.
and their own iniquity,
I will put an end to the pride of the arrogant
and humiliate the insolence of tyrants.
Isaiah 45:9 “Woe to the one who argues with his Maker—
one clay pot among many.
Does clay say to the one forming it,
‘What are you making?’
Or does your work say,
‘He has no hands’?
one clay pot among many.
Does clay say to the one forming it,
‘What are you making?’
Or does your work say,
‘He has no hands’?
2 Thessalonians 2:4
He opposes and exalts himself above every so-called god or object of worship, so that he sits in God’s sanctuary, publicizing that he himself is God.