Numbers 24:8

What then shall we say about these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?

“When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt.

You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies. You anoint my head with oil. My cup runs over.

You shall tell Pharaoh, ‘Yahweh says, Israel is my son, my firstborn,

You have loved righteousness, and hated wickedness. Therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness above your fellows.

For you are the glory of their strength. In your favor, our horn will be exalted.

She gave birth to a son, a male child, who is to rule all the nations with a rod of iron. Her child was caught up to God, and to his throne.

Out of his mouth proceeds a sharp, double-edged sword, that with it he should strike the nations. He will rule them with an iron rod. He treads the wine press of the fierceness of the wrath of God, the Almighty.

Joshua said, “By this you shall know that the living God is among you, and that he will without fail drive the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Hivite, the Perizzite, the Girgashite, the Amorite, and the Jebusite out from before you.

Hannah prayed, and said: “My heart exults in Yahweh! My horn is exalted in Yahweh. My mouth is enlarged over my enemies, because I rejoice in your salvation.

I looked, and rose up, and said to the nobles, to the rulers, and to the rest of the people, “Don’t be afraid of them! Remember the Lord, who is great and awesome, and fight for your brothers, your sons, your daughters, your wives, and your houses.”

“Will the wild ox be content to serve you? Or will he stay by your feeding trough?

He will break it as a potter’s vessel is broken, breaking it in pieces without sparing, so that there won’t be found among the broken pieces a piece good enough to take fire from the hearth, or to dip up water out of the cistern.”

and shall tell them, ‘Yahweh of Armies says: “Even so I will break this people and this city, as one breaks a potter’s vessel, that can’t be made whole again. They will bury in Topheth, until there is no place to bury.

Judah is a lion’s cub. From the prey, my son, you have gone up. He stooped down, he crouched as a lion, as a lioness. Who will rouse him up?

God brings them out of Egypt. He has as it were the strength of the wild ox.

He couched, he lay down as a lion, as a lioness; who shall rouse him up? Everyone who blesses you is blessed. Everyone who curses you is cursed.”

to drive out nations from before you greater and mightier than you, to bring you in, to give you their land for an inheritance, as it is today.

Be strong and courageous. Don’t be afraid or scared of them; for Yahweh your God himself is who goes with you. He will not fail you nor forsake you.”

Those who strive with Yahweh shall be broken to pieces. He will thunder against them in the sky. “Yahweh will judge the ends of the earth. He will give strength to his king, and exalt the horn of his anointed.”

He sent out arrows, and scattered them; lightning, and confused them.

Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah made himself horns of iron, and said, “Yahweh says, ‘With these you will push the Syrians, until they are consumed.’ ”

If my head is held high, you hunt me like a lion. Again you show yourself powerful to me.

Through you, will we push down our adversaries. Through your name, we will tread down those who rise up against us.

Your arrows are sharp. The nations fall under you, with arrows in the heart of the king’s enemies.

Gilead is mine, and Manasseh is mine. Ephraim also is the defense of my head. Judah is my scepter.

I will beat down his adversaries before him, and strike those who hate him.

Throw out lightning, and scatter them. Send out your arrows, and rout them.

The young lions have roared at him and yelled. They have made his land waste. His cities are burned up, without inhabitant.

For many nations and great kings will make bondservants of them, even of them. I will recompense them according to their deeds, and according to the work of their hands.”

“Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon has devoured me. He has crushed me. He has made me an empty vessel. He has, like a monster, swallowed me up. He has filled his mouth with my delicacies. He has cast me out.

He has made my flesh and my skin old. He has broken my bones.

When he had destroyed seven nations in the land of Canaan, he gave them their land for an inheritance for about four hundred fifty years.

Now he who establishes us with you in Christ and anointed us is God,

Behold, a people rises up as a lioness. As a lion he lifts himself up. He shall not lie down until he eats of the prey, and drinks the blood of the slain.”

you shall not be afraid of them. You shall remember well what Yahweh your God did to Pharaoh and to all Egypt:

The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, neither shall the children be put to death for the fathers. Every man shall be put to death for his own sin.

Yahweh your God himself will go over before you. He will destroy these nations from before you, and you shall dispossess them. Joshua will go over before you, as Yahweh has spoken.

but the children of the murderers he didn’t put to death; according to that which is written in the book of the law of Moses, as Yahweh commanded, saying, “The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, nor the children be put to death for the fathers; but every man shall die for his own sin.”

So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the king’s wrath was pacified.

You shall break them with a rod of iron. You shall dash them in pieces like a potter’s vessel.”

lest they tear apart my soul like a lion, ripping it in pieces, while there is no one to deliver.

Yahweh of Armies is with us. The God of Jacob is our refuge.

Let me hear joy and gladness, that the bones which you have broken may rejoice.

Rebuke the wild animal of the reeds, the multitude of the bulls, with the calves of the peoples. Being humbled, may it bring bars of silver. Scatter the nations that delight in war.

You broke the heads of Leviathan in pieces. You gave him as food to people and desert creatures.

I will cut off all the horns of the wicked, but the horns of the righteous shall be lifted up.

The clouds poured out water. The skies resounded with thunder. Your arrows also flashed around.

Yes, they spoke against God. They said, “Can God prepare a table in the wilderness?

But you have exalted my horn like that of the wild ox. I am anointed with fresh oil.

wine that makes the heart of man glad, oil to make his face to shine, and bread that strengthens man’s heart.

whose arrows are sharp, and all their bows bent. Their horses’ hoofs will be like flint, and their wheels like a whirlwind.

but he will judge the poor with righteousness, and decide with equity for the humble of the earth. He will strike the earth with the rod of his mouth; and with the breath of his lips he will kill the wicked.

For that day is of the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, a day of vengeance, that he may avenge himself of his adversaries. The sword will devour and be satiated, and will drink its fill of their blood; for the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, has a sacrifice in the north country by the river Euphrates.

My people have been lost sheep. Their shepherds have caused them to go astray. They have turned them away on the mountains. They have gone from mountain to hill. They have forgotten their resting place.

“Israel is a hunted sheep. The lions have driven him away. First, the king of Assyria devoured him, and now at last Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has broken his bones.”

when I send on them the evil arrows of famine that are for destruction, which I will send to destroy you. I will increase the famine on you, and will break your staff of bread.

The sun and moon stood still in the sky, at the light of your arrows as they went, at the shining of your glittering spear.

Yahweh will be seen over them; and his arrow will go flash like lightning; and the Lord Yahweh will blow the trumpet, and will go with whirlwinds of the south.

Now all this has happened that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the Lord through the prophet, saying,

After this, Jesus, seeing that all things were now finished, that the Scripture might be fulfilled, said, “I am thirsty.”

For these things happened that the Scripture might be fulfilled, “A bone of him will not be broken.”

You have an anointing from the Holy One, and you all have knowledge.

Only don’t rebel against Yahweh, neither fear the people of the land; for they are bread for us. Their defense is removed from over them, and Yahweh is with us. Don’t fear them.”

Yet you wouldn’t go up, but rebelled against the commandment of Yahweh your God.

Remember, and don’t forget, how you provoked Yahweh your God to wrath in the wilderness. From the day that you left the land of Egypt until you came to this place, you have been rebellious against Yahweh.

Yahweh himself is who goes before you. He will be with you. He will not fail you nor forsake you. Don’t be afraid. Don’t be discouraged.”

Majesty belongs to the firstborn of his herd. His horns are the horns of the wild ox. With them he will push all the peoples to the ends of the earth. They are the ten thousands of Ephraim. They are the thousands of Manasseh.”

Yahweh confused them before Israel. He killed them with a great slaughter at Gibeon, and chased them by the way of the ascent of Beth Horon, and struck them to Azekah and to Makkedah.

You will not need to fight this battle. Set yourselves, stand still, and see the salvation of Yahweh with you, O Judah and Jerusalem. Don’t be afraid, nor be dismayed. Go out against them tomorrow, for Yahweh is with you.’ ”

You have also made my enemies turn their backs to me, that I might cut off those who hate me.

All the ends of the earth shall remember and turn to Yahweh. All the relatives of the nations shall worship before you.

For your arrows have pierced me, your hand presses hard on me.

I waited patiently until morning. He breaks all my bones like a lion. From day even to night you will make an end of me.

For, behold, I will stir up and cause to come up against Babylon a company of great nations from the north country; and they will set themselves in array against her. She will be taken from there. Their arrows will be as of an expert mighty man. None of them will return in vain.

and was there until the death of Herod; that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the Lord through the prophet, saying, “Out of Egypt I called my son.”

The people spoke against God and against Moses: “Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? For there is no bread, there is no water, and our soul loathes this disgusting food!”

When Yahweh your God brings you into the land where you go to possess it, and casts out many nations before you—the Hittite, the Girgashite, the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite—seven nations greater and mightier than you;

“I will heap evils on them. I will spend my arrows on them.

I will make my arrows drunk with blood. My sword shall devour flesh with the blood of the slain and the captives, from the head of the leaders of the enemy.”

He sent out his arrows, and scattered them; Yes, great lightning bolts, and routed them.

For you will make them turn their back, when you aim drawn bows at their face.

The wild oxen will come down with them, and the young bulls with the mighty bulls; and their land will be drunken with blood, and their dust made greasy with fat.

The king commanded, and they brought those men who had accused Daniel, and they cast them into the den of lions, them, their children, and their wives; and the lions mauled them, and broke all their bones in pieces, before they came to the bottom of the den.