19:12 But it was plucked up in anger; it was thrown down to the ground.
The east wind
its strong branches broke off and withered –
a fire consumed them.
19:14 A fire has gone out from its branch; it has consumed its shoot and its fruit.
No strong branch was left in it, nor a scepter to rule.’
This is a lament song, and has become a lament song.”
21:10 It is sharpened for slaughter,
it is polished to flash like lightning!
“‘Should we rejoice in the scepter of my son? No! The sword despises every tree!
21:13 “‘For testing will come, and what will happen when the scepter, which the sword despises, is no more?
49:10 The scepter will not depart from Judah,
nor the ruler’s staff from between his feet,
until he comes to whom it belongs;
the nations will obey him.
24:7 He will pour the water out of his buckets,
and their descendants will be like abundant
their king will be greater than Agag,
and their kingdom will be exalted.
24:8 God brought them out of Egypt.
They have, as it were, the strength of a young bull;
they will devour hostile people
and will break their bones
and will pierce them through with arrows.
24:9 They crouch and lie down like a lion,
and as a lioness,
Blessed is the one who blesses you,
and cursed is the one who curses you!’”
24:17 ‘I see him, but not now;
I behold him, but not close at hand.
A star
and a scepter
He will crush the skulls
and the heads
2:8 Ask me,
and I will give you the nations as your inheritance,
the ends of the earth as your personal property.
2:9 You will break them
you will smash them like a potter’s jar!’”
80:15 the root
the shoot you made to grow!
80:17 May you give support to the one you have chosen,
to the one whom you raised up for yourself!
110:2 The Lord
Rule in the midst of your enemies!
11:1 A shoot will grow out of Jesse’s
a bud will sprout