Friends & Foes:
Judgment of the Nations
Because of Israel
Gn 10:2,3
2 I will make of you a great nation. I will bless you and make your name great.
You will be a blessing.
3 I will bless those who bless you, and I will curse him who curses you.
All of the families of the earth will be blessed in you.”
Is 10:24-27
24 Therefore the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, says “My people who dwell in Zion,
don’t be afraid of the Assyrian, though he strike you with the rod, and lift
up his staff against you, as Egypt did.
25 For yet a very little while, and the indignation against you will be
accomplished, and my anger will be directed to his destruction.”
26 Yahweh of Armies will stir up a scourge against him, as in the slaughter of
Midian at the rock of Oreb. His rod will be over the sea, and he will lift it up
like he did against Egypt.
27 It will happen in that day, that his burden will depart from off your
shoulder, and his yoke from off your neck, and the yoke shall be destroyed
because of the anointing oil.
Is 29:7,8
7 The multitude of all the nations that fight against Ariel, even all who fight
against her and her stronghold, and who distress her, will be like a dream, a
vision of the night.
8 It will be like when a hungry man dreams, and behold, he eats; but he awakes,
and his hunger isn’t satisfied; or like when a thirsty man dreams, and behold,
he drinks; but he awakes, and behold, he is faint, and he is still thirsty. The
multitude of all the nations that fight against Mount Zion will be like that.
Is 34:1-8
1 Come near, you nations, to hear!
Listen, you peoples.
Let the earth and all it contains hear;
the world, and everything that comes from it.
2 For Yahweh is enraged against all the nations,
and angry with all their armies.
He has utterly destroyed them.
He has given them over for slaughter.
3 Their slain will also be cast out,
and the stench of their dead bodies will come up;
and the mountains will melt in their blood.
4 All of the army of the sky will be dissolved.
The sky will be rolled up like a scroll,
and all its armies will fade away,
as a leaf fades from off a vine or a fig tree.
5 For my sword has drunk its fill in the sky.
Behold, it will come down on Edom,
and on the people of my curse, for judgment.
6 Yahweh’s sword is filled with blood.
It is covered with fat, with the blood of lambs and goats,
with the fat of the kidneys of rams;
for Yahweh has a sacrifice in Bozrah,
And a great slaughter in the land of Edom.
7 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.
8 For Yahweh has a day of vengeance,
a year of recompense for the cause of Zion.
Is 41:11,12
11 Behold, all those who are incensed against you will be disappointed and
confounded.
Those who strive with you will be like nothing, and shall
perish.
12 You will seek them, and won’t find them,
even those who contend with you.
Those who war against you will be as nothing,
as a non-existent thing.
Is 49:25,26
25 But thus says Yahweh, Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken away,
and the prey of the terrible shall be delivered; for I will contend with him who
contends with you, and I will save your children.
26 I will feed those who oppress you with their own flesh; and they shall be
drunken with their own blood, as with sweet wine: and all flesh shall know that
I, Yahweh, am your Savior, and your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.
Is 51:22,23
22 Thus says your Lord Yahweh, and your God who pleads the cause of his people,
Behold, I have taken out of your hand the cup of staggering, even the bowl of
the cup of my wrath; you shall no more drink it again:
23 and I will put it into the hand of those who afflict you, who have said to
your soul, Bow down, that we may go over; and you have laid your back as the
ground, and as the street, to those who go over.
Is 54:15
Behold, they may gather together, but not by me: whoever shall gather together
against you shall fall because of you.
Is 60:12
For that nation and kingdom that will not serve you shall perish; yes, those
nations shall be utterly wasted.
Jr 30:11,16,20
11 For I am with you, says Yahweh, to save you: for I will make a full end of
all the nations where I have scattered you, but I will not make a full end of
you; but I will correct you in measure, and will in no way leave you unpunished.
16 Therefore all those who devour you shall be devoured; and all your
adversaries, everyone of them, shall go into captivity; and those who despoil
you shall be a spoil, and all who prey on you will I give for a prey.
20 Their children also shall be as before, and their congregation shall be
established before me; and I will punish all who oppress them.
Jr 51:24,34-37,49
24 I will render to Babylon and to all the inhabitants of Chaldea all their evil
that they have done in Zion in your sight, says Yahweh.
34 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 maw with my delicacies; he has cast me out.
35 The violence done to me and to my flesh be on Babylon, shall the inhabitant
of Zion say; and, My blood be on the inhabitants of Chaldea, shall Jerusalem
say.
36 Therefore thus says Yahweh: Behold, I will plead your cause, and take
vengeance for you; and I will dry up her sea, and make her fountain dry.
37 Babylon shall become heaps, a dwelling place for jackals, an astonishment,
and a hissing, without inhabitant.
49 As Babylon has caused the slain of Israel to fall, so at Babylon shall fall
the slain of all the land.
Ezk 28:24,26
24 There shall be no more a pricking brier to the house of Israel, nor a hurting
thorn of any that are around them, that did despite to them; and they shall know
that I am the Lord Yahweh.
26 They shall dwell securely therein; yes, they shall build houses, and plant
vineyards, and shall dwell securely, when I have executed judgments on all those
who do them despite all around them; and they shall know that I am Yahweh their
God.
Ezk 35:1-15
1 Moreover the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
2 Son of man, set your face against Mount Seir, and prophesy against it,
3 and tell it, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I am against you, Mount Seir,
and I will stretch out my hand against you, and I will make you a desolation and
an astonishment.
4 I will lay your cities waste, and you shall be desolate; and you shall know
that I am Yahweh.
5 Because you have had a perpetual enmity, and have given over the children of
Israel to the power of the sword in the time of their calamity, in the time of
the iniquity of the end;
6 therefore, as I live, says the Lord Yahweh, I will prepare you to blood, and
blood shall pursue you: since you have not hated blood, therefore blood shall
pursue you.
7 Thus will I make Mount Seir an astonishment and a desolation; and I will cut
off from it him who passes through and him who returns.
8 I will fill its mountains with its slain: in your hills and in your valleys
and in all your watercourses shall they fall who are slain with the sword.
9 I will make you a perpetual desolation, and your cities shall not be
inhabited; and you shall know that I am Yahweh.
10 Because you have said, These two nations and these two countries shall be
mine, and we will possess it; whereas Yahweh was there:
11 therefore, as I live, says the Lord Yahweh, I will do according to your
anger, and according to your envy which you have shown out of your hatred
against them; and I will make myself known among them, when I shall judge you.
12 You shall know that I, Yahweh, have heard all your insults which you have
spoken against the mountains of Israel, saying, They are laid desolate, they are
given us to devour.
13 You have magnified yourselves against me with your mouth, and have multiplied
your words against me: I have heard it.
14 Thus says the Lord Yahweh: When the whole earth rejoices, I will make you
desolate.
15 As you did rejoice over the inheritance of the house of Israel, because it
was desolate, so will I do to you: you shall be desolate, Mount Seir, and all
Edom, even all of it; and they shall know that I am Yahweh.
Ezk 38:1-3,8-12,14-23
1 The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
2 Son of man, set your face toward Gog, of the land of Magog, the prince of
Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal, and prophesy against him,
3 and say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I am against you, Gog, prince of
Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal:
8 After many days you shall be visited: in the latter years you shall come into
the land that is brought back from the sword, that is gathered out of many
peoples, on the mountains of Israel, which have been a continual waste; but it
is brought forth out of the peoples, and they shall dwell securely, all of them.
9 You shall ascend, you shall come like a storm, you shall be like a cloud to
cover the land, you, and all your hordes, and many peoples with you.
10 Thus says the Lord Yahweh: It shall happen in that day, that things shall
come into your mind, and you shall devise an evil device:
11 and you shall say, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages; I will go
to those who are at rest, who dwell securely, all of them dwelling without
walls, and having neither bars nor gates;
12 to take the spoil and to take the prey; to turn your hand against the waste
places that are now inhabited, and against the people who are gathered
out of the nations, who have gotten livestock and goods, who dwell in the middle
of the earth.
14 Therefore, son of man, prophesy, and tell Gog, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: In
that day when my people Israel dwells securely, shall you not know it?
15 You shall come from your place out of the uttermost parts of the north, you,
and many peoples with you, all of them riding on horses, a great company and a
mighty army;
16 and you shall come up against my people Israel, as a cloud to cover the land:
it shall happen in the latter days, that I will bring you against my land, that
the nations may know me, when I shall be sanctified in you, Gog, before their
eyes.
17 Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Are you he of whom I spoke in old time by my
servants the prophets of Israel, who prophesied in those days for many
years that I would bring you against them?
18 It shall happen in that day, when Gog shall come against the land of Israel,
says the Lord Yahweh, that my wrath shall come up into my nostrils.
19 For in my jealousy and in the fire of my wrath have I spoken, Surely in that
day there shall be a great shaking in the land of Israel;
20 so that the fish of the sea, and the birds of the sky, and the animals of the
field, and all creeping things who creep on the earth, and all the men who are
on the surface of the earth, shall shake at my presence, and the mountains shall
be thrown down, and the steep places shall fall, and every wall shall fall to
the ground.
21 I will call for a sword against him to all my mountains, says the Lord
Yahweh: every man’s sword shall be against his brother.
22 With pestilence and with blood will I enter into judgment with him; and I
will rain on him, and on his hordes, and on the many peoples who are with him,
an overflowing shower, and great hailstones, fire, and sulfur.
23 I will magnify myself, and sanctify myself, and I will make myself known in
the eyes of many nations; and they shall know that I am Yahweh.
Ezk 39:1-6,11,17-20
1 You, son of man, prophesy against Gog, and say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh:
Behold, I am against you, Gog, prince of Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal:
2 and I will turn you about, and will lead you on, and will cause you to come up
from the uttermost parts of the north; and I will bring you on the mountains of
Israel;
3 and I will strike your bow out of your left hand, and will cause your arrows
to fall out of your right hand.
4 You shall fall on the mountains of Israel, you, and all your hordes, and the
peoples who are with you: I will give you to the ravenous birds of every sort,
and to the animals of the field to be devoured.
5 You shall fall on the open field; for I have spoken it, says the Lord Yahweh.
6 I will send a fire on Magog, and on those who dwell securely in the islands;
and they shall know that I am Yahweh.
11 It shall happen in that day, that I will give to Gog a place for burial in
Israel, the valley of those who pass through on the east of the sea; and it
shall stop those who pass through: and there shall they bury Gog and all his
multitude; and they shall call it The valley of Hamon Gog.
17 You, son of man, thus says the Lord Yahweh: Speak to the birds of every sort,
and to every animal of the field, Assemble yourselves, and come; gather
yourselves on every side to my sacrifice that I do sacrifice for you, even a
great sacrifice on the mountains of Israel, that you may eat flesh and drink
blood.
18 You shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of the princes of
the earth, of rams, of lambs, and of goats, of bulls, all of them fatlings of
Bashan.
19 You shall eat fat until you be full, and drink blood until you be drunken, of
my sacrifice which I have sacrificed for you.
20 You shall be filled at my table with horses and chariots, with mighty men,
and with all men of war, says the Lord Yahweh.
Jl 3:1-8,12,19
1 “For, behold, in those days,
and in that time,
when I restore the fortunes of Judah and Jerusalem,
2 I will gather all nations,
and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat;
and I will execute judgment on them there for my people,
and for my heritage, Israel, whom they have scattered among
the nations.
They have divided my land,
3 and have cast lots for my people,
and have given a boy for a prostitute,
and sold a girl for wine, that they may drink.
4 “Yes, and what are you to me, Tyre, and Sidon,
and all the regions of Philistia?
Will you repay me?
And if you repay me,
I will swiftly and speedily return your repayment on your own head.
5 Because you have taken my silver and my gold,
and have carried my finest treasures into your temples,
6 and have sold the children of Judah and the children of Jerusalem to the sons
of the Greeks,
that you may remove them far from their border.
7 Behold, I will stir them up out of the place where you have sold them,
and will return your repayment on your own head;
8 and I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hands of the children of
Judah,
and they will sell them to the men of Sheba,
to a faraway nation,
for Yahweh has spoken it.”
12 “Let the nations arouse themselves,
and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat;
for there will I sit to judge all the surrounding nations.
19 Egypt will be a desolation,
and Edom will be a desolate wilderness,
for the violence done to the children of Judah,
because they have shed innocent blood in their land.
Ob 1:10,15,16,18
10 For the violence done to your brother Jacob, shame will cover you, and you
will be cut off forever.
15 For the day of Yahweh is near all the nations! As you have done, it will be
done to you. Your deeds will return upon your own head.
16 For as you have drunk on my holy mountain, so will all the nations drink
continually. Yes, they will drink, swallow down, and will be as though they had
not been.
18 The house of Jacob will be a fire, the house of Joseph a flame, and the house
of Esau for stubble. They will burn among them, and devour them. There will not
be any remaining to the house of Esau.” Indeed, Yahweh has spoken.
Mc 4:11-13
11 Now many nations have assembled against you, that say,
“Let her be defiled,
and let our eye gloat over Zion.”
12 But they don’t know the thoughts of Yahweh,
neither do they understand his counsel;
for he has gathered them like the sheaves to the threshing floor.
13 Arise and thresh, daughter of Zion;
for I will make your horn iron,
and I will make your hoofs brass;
and you will beat in pieces many peoples:
and I will devote their gain to Yahweh,
and their substance to the Lord of the whole earth.
Mc 5:5,6
5 He will be our peace when Assyria invades our land,
and when he marches through our fortresses,
then we will raise against him seven shepherds,
and eight leaders of men.
6 They will rule the land of Assyria with the sword,
and the land of Nimrod in its gates.
He will deliver us from the Assyrian,
when he invades our land,
and when he marches within our border.
Zp 3:19
Behold, at that time I will deal with all those who afflict you, and I will save
those who are lame, and gather those who were driven away. I will give them
praise and honor, whose shame has been in all the earth.
Zc 12:2,3,9
2 “Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of reeling to all the surrounding
peoples, and on Judah also will it be in the siege against Jerusalem.
3 It will happen in that day, that I will make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for
all the peoples. All who burden themselves with it will be severely wounded, and
all the nations of the earth will be gathered together against it.
9 It will happen in that day, that I will seek to destroy all the nations that
come against Jerusalem.
Zc 14:3,12,16-19
3 Then Yahweh will go out and fight against those nations, as when he fought in
the day of battle.
12 This will be the plague with which Yahweh will strike all the peoples who
have warred against Jerusalem: their flesh will consume away while they stand on
their feet, and their eyes will consume away in their sockets, and their tongue
will consume away in their mouth.
16 It will happen that everyone who is left of all the nations that came
against Jerusalem will go up from year to year to worship the King, Yahweh
of Armies, and to keep the feast of tents.
17 It will be, that whoever of all the families of the earth doesn’t go up
to Jerusalem to worship the King, Yahweh of Armies, on them there will be no
rain.
18 If the family of Egypt doesn’t go up, and doesn’t come, neither will
it rain on them. This will be the plague with which Yahweh will strike
the nations that don’t go up to keep the feast of tents.
19 This will be the punishment of Egypt, and the punishment of all the
nations that don’t go up to keep the feast of tents.
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