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
Thus said Jehovah: Lo, a people hath come from a north country, And a great nation is stirred up from the sides of the earth.
They are cruel
Psalm 74:20
Look attentively to the covenant, For the dark places of earth, Have been full of habitations of violence.
Psalm 137:8
O daughter of Babylon, O destroyed one, O the happiness of him who repayeth to thee thy deed, That thou hast done to us.
Isaiah 13:17
Lo, I am stirring up against them the Medes, Who silver esteem not, And gold -- they delight not in it.
Isaiah 14:6
He who is smiting peoples in wrath, A smiting without intermission, He who is ruling in anger nations, Pursuing without restraint!
Isaiah 47:6
I have been wroth against My people, I have polluted Mine inheritance And I give them into thy hand, Thou hast not appointed for them mercies, On the aged thou hast made thy yoke very heavy,
Habakkuk 1:6
For, lo, I am raising up the Chaldeans, The bitter and hasty nation, That is going to the broad places of earth, To occupy tabernacles not its own.
James 2:13
for the judgment without kindness is to him not having done kindness, and exult doth kindness over judgment.
Revelation 16:6
because blood of saints and prophets they did pour out, and blood to them Thou didst give to drink, for they are worthy;'
Their voice
Psalm 46:2
Therefore we fear not in the changing of earth, And in the slipping of mountains Into the heart of the seas.
Isaiah 5:30
And it howleth against it in that day as the howling of a sea, And it hath looked attentively to the land, And lo, darkness -- distress, And light hath been darkened by its abundance!
Shall ride
Jeremiah 8:16
From Dan hath been heard the snorting of his horses, From the voice of the neighings of his mighty ones, Trembled hath all the land, And they come in and consume the land and its fulness, The city and the inhabitants in it.
Jeremiah 47:3
From the sound of the stamping of the hoofs of his mighty ones, From the rushing of his chariot, the noise of his wheels, Fathers have not turned unto sons, From feebleness of hands,
Isaiah 5:28
Whose arrows are sharp, and all its bows bent, Hoofs of its horses as flint have been reckoned, And its wheels as a hurricane!
Habakkuk 1:8
Swifter than leopards have been its horses, And sharper than evening wolves, And increased have its horsemen, Even its horsemen from afar come in, They fly as an eagle, hasting to consume.
Revelation 19:14
And the armies in the heaven were following him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen -- white and pure;