'Resistance' in the Bible
And they shall stumble over {one another} as {from before} a sword, but there shall not be a pursuer; and {you shall have no resistance} {before} your enemies.
“Surely there are mockers and mockery with me,And my eye gazes on their obstinacy and provocation.
By patience and a calm spirit a ruler may be persuaded,And a soft and gentle tongue breaks the bone [of resistance].
This is the word which the Lord spoke earlier concerning Moab [when Moab’s pride and resistance to God were first known].
Lord, you coerced me into being a prophet, and I allowed you to do it. You overcame my resistance and prevailed over me. Now I have become a constant laughingstock. Everyone ridicules me.
“Is not My word like fire [that consumes all that cannot endure the test]?” says the Lord, “and like a hammer that breaks the [most stubborn] rock [in pieces]?
"You are to tell the Resistance that is, the house of Israel, "This is what the Lord GOD says: "I've had enough of all of your loathsome behavior, you house of Israel!
You who [self-confidently] rejoice in Lo-debar (Nothing),Who say, “Have we not by our own strength taken Karnaim (Strength) for ourselves?”