11 Bible Verses about Breaking Sticks

Next I took my staff called Favor and cut it in two, annulling the covenant I had made with all the peoples.

Then I cut in two my second staff, Union, annulling the brotherhood between Judah and Israel.

I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, so that you would no longer be their slaves. I broke the bars of your yoke and enabled you to live in freedom.

The Lord has broken the staff of the wicked,
the scepter of the rulers.

Don’t rejoice, all of you in Philistia,
because the rod of the one who struck you is broken.
For a viper will come from the root of a snake,
and from its egg comes a flying serpent.

ט TetZion’s gates have fallen to the ground;
He has destroyed and shattered the bars on her gates.
Her king and her leaders live among the nations,
instruction is no more,
and even her prophets receive
no vision from the Lord.

Then He said to me, “Son of man, I am going to cut off the supply of bread in Jerusalem. They will anxiously eat bread rationed by weight and in dread drink water by measure.

When the dove came to him at evening, there was a plucked olive leaf in her beak. So Noah knew that the water on the earth’s surface had gone down.

He will not break a bruised reed,
and He will not put out a smoldering wick;
He will faithfully bring justice.

He will not break a bruised reed,
and He will not put out a smoldering wick,
until He has led justice to victory.

When Israel grasped you by the hand,
you splintered, tearing all their shoulders;
when they leaned on you,
you shattered and made all their hips unsteady.