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And He will judge between the nations,
And will mediate [disputes] for many peoples;
And they will beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks.
Nation will not lift up the sword against nation,
And never again will they learn war.

Verse ConceptsGod, As JudgePruningPloughingSecuritySpearsToolsWarfare, Nature OfWeaponsNationsPeace, Effects OfDisarmamentMessianic PropheciesGod Makes PeaceMillennial Kingdom, Universal Peace And Blessing


For before the harvest, when the blossom is over
And the flower becomes a ripening grape,
He will cut off the sprigs [without buds] with pruning knives,
And [He will] remove and cut away the spreading branches.

Verse ConceptsPruningKnivesToolsCutting Off Branches


Beat your plowshares into swords
And your pruning hooks into spears;
Let the weak say, “I am strong!”

Verse ConceptsPruningSpearsToolsWeakness, SpiritualAmbivalenceNo Strength To Cope


And He will judge between many peoples
And render decisions for strong and distant nations.
Then they shall hammer their swords into plowshares
And their spears into pruning hooks [so that the implements of war may become the tools of agriculture];
Nation shall not lift up sword against nation,
Nor shall they ever again train for war.

Verse ConceptsGod, As JudgePruningDisarmamentSpearsToolsWarfare, Nature OfWeaponsAmbivalenceCutting Off BranchesTilling The SoilFruitless LearningFar From HereGod Makes PeaceGod Saves From Sin And Death

Non-Exact Match


‘The nations heard about him;
He was captured in their pit,
And they brought him with hooks
To the land of Egypt.

Verse ConceptsPitsTrapDealing With The Nations


‘They put him in a cage with hooks and chains
And brought him to the king of Babylon;
They brought him in hunting nets
So that his voice would be heard no more
On the mountains of Israel.

Verse ConceptsPrisonersCagesMan Trapping


“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.

Verse ConceptsThings Stuck TogetherGod Lifting People

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;

Verse ConceptsHorsesCoercionCausing People To TurnOther References To MouthsEzekiel Invasion

The double hooks, one hand width in length were installed in the house all around. The meat of the offering was [to be placed] on the tables.

Verse ConceptsCorpses Of AnimalsDimensions Of Other Things


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.

Verse ConceptsNoses

So the Lord brought the commanders of the army of the king of Assyria against them, and they captured Manasseh with hooks [through his nose or cheeks] and bound him with bronze [chains] and took him to Babylon.

Verse ConceptsNosesPrisonersBronze Shackles

You shall hang it on four pillars (support poles) of acacia wood overlaid with gold, with gold hooks, on four silver sockets.

Verse ConceptsHooksFour SupportsPillars For The TabernacleOverlaid With GoldSocketsGold Items For The Tabernacl

You shall make five pillars (support poles) of acacia wood to support the hanging curtain and overlay them with gold. Their hooks shall be of gold, and you shall cast five [base] sockets of bronze for them.

Verse ConceptsAcacia WoodFive ThingsPillars For The TabernacleOverlaid With GoldSocketsGold Items For The TabernaclBronze Items For The Tabernacle

it shall have twenty pillars and twenty bronze sockets; but the hooks of the pillars and their fasteners shall be silver;

Verse ConceptsTwentyBronze Items For The Tabernacle

likewise for the north side there shall be curtains, a hundred cubits long, and its twenty pillars and twenty bronze sockets; but the hooks of the pillars and their fasteners shall be silver.

Verse ConceptsTwentyPillars For The TabernacleBronze Items For The Tabernacle

All the pillars (support poles) around the court shall be joined together with silver rods; their hooks shall be of silver and their sockets of bronze.

Verse ConceptsSilverBronze Items For The Tabernacle

the tabernacle (sacred dwelling of God), its tent and its covering, its hooks, its boards, its bars, its pillars, and its sockets;

Verse ConceptsHooksBoardsPillars For The TabernacleCovering The TabernacleSocketsTenons And Bars

For the veil (partition curtain) he made four support poles of acacia wood and overlaid them with gold; their hooks were gold, and he cast for them four silver sockets.

Verse ConceptsFour SupportsPillars For The TabernacleOverlaid With GoldSocketsGold Items For The Tabernacl

and [he made] the five support poles with their hooks, and overlaid their [ornamental] tops and connecting rings with gold; but their five sockets were bronze.

Verse ConceptsFive ThingsPillars For The TabernacleOverlaid With GoldSocketsGold Items For The TabernaclBronze Items For The Tabernacle

their twenty support poles, and their twenty bronze sockets; the hooks of the support poles and their connecting rings were silver.

Verse ConceptsTwentyBronze Items For The Tabernacle

And for the north side [of the court the curtains were also] a hundred cubits; their twenty support poles and their twenty bronze sockets; the hooks of the support poles and their connecting rings were silver.

Verse ConceptsCraftsmenTwentyBronze Items For The Tabernacle

For the west side [of the court] there were curtains of fifty cubits with their ten support poles and their ten sockets; the hooks of the support poles and their connecting rings were silver.

Verse ConceptsTen ThingsWest Sides

The sockets for the support poles were made of bronze, the hooks of the support poles and their connecting rings were made of silver; and silver overlaid their tops. All the support poles of the court had silver connecting rings.

Verse ConceptsSilverOverlaid With SilverBronze Items For The Tabernacle

Their four support poles and their four sockets were bronze; their hooks were silver, and silver overlaid their tops and their connecting rings.

Verse ConceptsFour SupportsPillars For The TabernacleOverlaid With SilverBronze Items For The Tabernacle

Of the 1,775 shekels, he made hooks for the support poles and overlaid their tops and made connecting rings for them.

Verse ConceptsOverlaid With Silver

For six years you shall sow your field, and for six years you shall prune your vineyard and gather in its crop.

Verse ConceptsCropsPruningSix YearsLiteral Planting

But in the seventh year there shall be a Sabbath of rest for the land, a Sabbath to the Lord; you shall not sow [seed in] your field nor prune your vineyard.

Verse ConceptsSabbatical YearAgricultureRestFarmingoverworking


When pride comes [boiling up with an arrogant attitude of self-importance], then come dishonor and shame,
But with the humble [the teachable who have been chiseled by trial and who have learned to walk humbly with God] there is wisdom and soundness of mind.

Verse ConceptsPride, Evil OfPride, Results OfProverbsShameSuccessTemptation, Sources OfPrideBeing HumbleHumility And PrideConfidence And Self Esteemhumblenessarrogance


“I will turn it into a wasteland;
It will not be pruned or cultivated,
But briars and thorns will come up.
I will also command the clouds not to rain on it.”

Verse ConceptsBriersAgriculture, TermsPruningCommands, in OTdrought, physicalRainCultivationLack Of RainFallow Land


The Chaldeans bring all of them up with a hook,
And drag them away with a net,
And gather them together in their fishing net;
So they rejoice and are glad.

Verse ConceptsRejoicing In Success


For on account of a prostitute one is reduced to a piece of bread [to be eaten up],
And the immoral woman hunts [with a hook] the precious life [of a man].

Verse ConceptsImmorality, Nature Of SexualPoverty, Causes OfSelf IndulgenceAttempting To KillWorseBeauty And Self WorthInfidelityWaiting Till Marriageadultrywhores


‘Because of your raging against Me,
And because your arrogance and complacency have come up to My ears,
I will put My hook in your nose,
And My bridle in your lips,
And I will turn you back [to Assyria] by the way that you came.

Verse ConceptsFace Of GodHorsesHumiliationNosesRestraintAnger Of God, Examples OfWicked Described AsDivine RestraintsProud People


The fishermen will lament (cry out in grief),
And all those who cast a hook into the Nile will mourn,
And those who spread nets upon the waters will languish.

Verse ConceptsFishesLamentingNetsOccupationsFishermen


“Because your raging against Me
And your arrogance has come up to My ears,
I will put My hook in your nose
And My bridle in your mouth,
And I will turn you back by the way you came.

Verse ConceptsTumultHorsesNoses


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

Verse ConceptsThorns