But you have been lifting yourself up against the Lord of heaven, and they have put the vessels of his house before you, and you and your lords, your wives and your women, have taken wine in them; and you have given praise to gods of silver and gold, of brass and iron and wood and stone, who are without the power of seeing or hearing, and without knowledge: and to the God in whose hand your breath is, and whose are all your ways, you have not given glory;

Your words have been strong against me, says the Lord. And still you say, What have we said against you?

And he said, Who are you, Lord? And he said, I am Jesus, whom you are attacking:

Now, about that time, Herod the king made cruel attacks on the Christians.

Strengtheneth

He is wise in heart and great in strength: who ever made his face hard against him, and any good came of it?

Have you an arm like God? have you a voice of thunder like his?

And Pharaoh said, Who is the Lord, to whose voice I am to give ear and let Israel go? I have no knowledge of the Lord and I will not let Israel go.

Are you still uplifted in pride against my people so that you will not let them go?

And the Philistines, full of fear, said, God has come into their tents. And they said, Trouble is ours! for never before has such a thing been seen.

Why do you make your hearts hard, like the hearts of Pharaoh and the Egyptians? When he had made sport of them, did they not let the people go, and they went away?

See, this is the man who did not make God his strength, but had faith in his goods and his property, and made himself

Have knowledge, O peoples, and be in fear; give ear, all you far-off parts of the earth:

For this cause it will be that, when the purpose of the Lord against Mount Zion and Jerusalem is complete, I will send punishment on the pride of the heart of the king of Assyria, and on the glory of his uplifted eyes.

Whose purpose and work was it? His who sent out the generations from the start. I the Lord, the first, and with the last, I am he.

General references

Are you still uplifted in pride against my people so that you will not let them go?

And the children of Benjamin came together from all their towns to Gibeah, to go to war with the children of Israel.

Now there was talk among the chief priests of putting Lazarus to death;