Isaiah 22:25 Cross References - LEB

²⁵ On that day, _⌊declares_⌋* Yahweh of hosts, the peg that was driven will move away into a secure place, and it will be cut down and fall, and the load that was on her will be cut off. For Yahweh has spoken.'"

⁵ The Jews struck down all their enemies with _⌊the sword_⌋,* killing and destroying them; and they did as they pleased with those that hated them. ⁶ And in the citadel of Susa the Jews killed and destroyed five hundred men, ⁷ and Parshandatha, Dalphon, Aspatha, ⁸ Portha, Adalia, Aridatha, ⁹ Parmashta, Arisai, Aridai, and Vaizatha, ¹⁰ the ten sons of Haman, the son of Hammedatha, the enemy of the Jews; but they did not _⌊touch_⌋* the plunder. ¹¹ On that day the number of those being killed in the citadel of Susa _⌊was reported to_⌋* the king. ¹² And the king said to Queen Esther, "In the citadel of Susa the Jews killed and destroyed five hundred men and the ten sons of Haman. What have they done in the rest of the king's provinces? What is your petition? It will be granted to you. And what further is your request? It will be done." ¹³ Esther replied, "If it is good to the king, let tomorrow also be granted to the Jews who are in Susa to do according to the edict of today; and let them hang Haman's ten sons on the gallows." ¹⁴ And the king said to do so. And a decree was issued in Susa and Haman's ten sons were hanged.

²⁴ For Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, the enemy of all the Jews had plotted against the Jews to destroy them, and he had cast pur, that is the lot, to rout them out and destroy them. ²⁵ But when it came* _⌊to the attention of_⌋* the king, he _⌊gave orders in writing_⌋* that his evil plot that he had devised against the Jews should return on his head, and they hung him and his sons on the gallows.

⁵ but God will pull you down forever. He will snatch you and tear you away from your tent, and he will uproot you from the land of the living. Selah

³ Do not place trust in princes, in a son of humankind with whom there is no deliverance.

¹⁵ The Lord, Yahweh of hosts, says this:
"Go! Go to this steward, to Shebna, who is over the house: ¹⁶ 'What _⌊business do you have_⌋* here, and who _⌊do you have_⌋* here, that you have cut a grave cutting here for yourself, carving his grave on the height, a dwelling place for him in the rock?

²³ And I will drive him in like a peg into a secure place, and he will become like a throne of glory to the house of his father.

¹¹ who calls a bird of prey from the east, the man of his* plan from a country from afar. Indeed I have spoken; indeed I will bring it to being. I have formed it; indeed I will do it.

¹⁵ I, I myself, I have spoken! Indeed, I have called him. I have brought him, and he will be successful in his way.

²⁸ Because of this the earth will mourn, and the heavens above will become dark. Because I have spoken, I have planned, and I have not relented, and I will not turn back from it."

⁵ Thus says Yahweh,
"Cursed is the person who trusts in humankind and makes flesh his _⌊strength_⌋,* and turns aside his heart from Yahweh. ⁶ And he will be like a juniper in the wilderness,* and he will not see when good comes, and he will dwell in the parched places in the desert,* in a land of salt flats,* where no one lives.

¹³ And my anger will come to an end, and I will place my rage on them, and I will relent, and they will know that I, Yahweh, have spoken in my passion _⌊when I fully vent my rage against them_⌋.*

¹⁵ And it will be* an object of taunting* and an object of mockery, a warning and a horror to the nations that are around you whenever I execute judgments against you in anger and in wrath and in furious punishments! I, Yahweh, have spoken!

¹⁷ And I will send against you famine and fierce animals,* and they will make you childless; and plague and blood will pass through you, and I will bring the sword upon you. I, Yahweh, I have spoken!"

⁴ But they will sit, each under his vine and under his fig tree, and no one will make them afraid, for the mouth of Yahweh of hosts has spoken.