Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
They shall hold the bow and the lance: they are cruel, and will not shew mercy: their voice shall roar like the sea, and they shall ride upon horses, every one put in array, like a man to the battle, against thee, O daughter of Babylon.
Hold
They are cruel
Their voice
Bible References
Hold
Jeremiah 6:22
So says Jehovah, Behold, a people comes from the north country, and a great nation shall be stirred from the sides of the earth.
They are cruel
Psalm 74:20
Look to the covenant; for the dark places of the earth are full of the houses of evil.
Psalm 137:8
O daughter of Babylon, O destroyed one! Blessed is he who will repay to you your reward which you rewarded to us.
Isaiah 13:17
Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, who shall not value silver; and they shall not delight in gold.
Isaiah 14:6
who struck peoples in wrath, a blow without turning away, ruling the nations in anger, a persecution without restraint.
Isaiah 47:6
I was angry with My people, I have polluted My inheritance, and given them into your hand. You showed them no mercy; you have very heavily laid your yoke on the aged.
Habakkuk 1:6
For lo, I raise up the Chaldeans, the bitter and hasty nation, which shall march through the breadth of the land to possess homes not their own.
James 2:13
For he who has shown no mercy shall have judgment without mercy, and mercy exults over judgment.
Revelation 16:6
since they have poured out the blood of the saints and prophets; and You gave them blood to drink, for they were deserving.
Their voice
Psalm 46:2
Therefore we will not fear when the earth changes, and when mountains are slipping into the heart of the seas.
Isaiah 5:30
And in that day they shall roar against them like the roaring of the sea; and one looks to the land, behold darkness, and lo, darkness! Distress! And the light shall be darkened by its clouds.
Shall ride
Jeremiah 8:16
The snorting of his horses was heard from Dan; the whole land trembled at the sound of the neighing of his stallions. For they have come, and have devoured the land, and all that is in it; the city, and those who live in it.
Jeremiah 47:3
At the noise of the stamping of the hooves of his strong horses, at the rushing of his chariots, the rumbling of his wheels, the fathers shall not look back to their sons because of feebleness of hands;
Isaiah 5:28
whose arrows are sharp, and all their bows bent; their horses' hoofs seem like flint, and their wheels like a whirlwind.
Habakkuk 1:8
His horses also are swifter than the leopards, and are more fierce than the evening wolves. And their horsemen shall spread themselves, and their horsemen shall come from afar. They shall fly like the eagle hurrying to eat.
Revelation 19:14
And the armies in Heaven followed Him on white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean.