Isaiah 37:29

Because of your raging against me, and because your arrogance has reached my ears, 1 I will put my hook in your nose, and my bit in your mouth; 1 I will turn you back the way you came.” 1

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In The King James Version

Because thy rage against me, and thy tumult, is come up into mine ears, therefore will I put my hook in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest.

In Context

28But I know your sitting down, your going out, your coming in, and your raging against me. 1

30This will be the sign for you: 1 This year you will eat what grows wild, and in the second year what grows from that. 1 But in the third year you must plant and harvest, plant vineyards and eat their fruit. 1

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Cross References

2 Kings 19:27But I know your sitting down, 2 your going out, your coming in, 2 and your raging against me. 1

Job 41:2Can you put a rope into his nose, 1 or pierce his jaw through with a hook? 1

Psalms 32:9Do not be like a horse or like a mule, which have no understanding; 1 it is only with bridle and bit to control them 1 that they will go where you want them to. 1

Psalms 74:4Your adversaries roared in the middle of your appointed place; 1 they set up their battle flags. 1

Psalms 83:2Look, your enemies are making a commotion, 1 and those who hate you have raised their heads. 1

Isaiah 10:12When the Lord has finished his work on Mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will punish the speech of the arrogant heart of the king of Assyria and his prideful looks.

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 37:22-38

Sennacherib Threatened; Sennacherib Destroyed. ( b. c. 710.) 21 Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent unto Hezekiah, saying, Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, Whereas thou hast prayed to me against Sennacherib king of Assyria: 22 This is the word which the Lord hath spoken concerning him; The virgin, the daughter of Zion, hath despised thee, and laughed thee to scorn; the daughter of Jerusalem hath shaken her head at thee. 23 Whom hast thou reproached and blasphemed? and against whom hast thou exalted thy voice, and… Read the whole commentary →

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