It struck the peoples in anger with unceasing blows; it subdued the nations in rage with relentless persecution.
Cross References
Isaiah 10:14My hand reached as into a nest to seize the wealth of the nations. Like one gathering abandoned eggs, I gathered all the earth. No wing fluttered, no beak opened or chirped.'"
Isaiah 14:5The LORD has broken the staff of the wicked, the scepter of the rulers.
Isaiah 47:6I was angry with My people; I profaned My heritage, and I placed them under your control. You showed them no mercy; even on the elderly you laid a most heavy yoke.
Lamentations 1:21People have heard my groaning, but there is no one to comfort me. All my enemies have heard of my trouble; they are glad that You have caused it. May You bring the day You have announced, so that they may become like me.
Habakkuk 1:17Will he, therefore, empty his net and continue to slay nations without mercy?
Treasury of Scripture
He who smote the people in wrath with a continual stroke, he that ruled the nations in anger, is persecuted, and none hinders.
who smote
Isaiah 33:1
Woe to thee that spoilest, and thou wast not spoiled; and dealest treacherously, and they dealt not treacherously with thee! when thou shalt cease to spoil, thou shalt be spoiled; and when thou shalt make an end to deal treacherously, they shall deal treacherously with thee.
Isaiah 47:6
I was wroth with my people, I have polluted mine inheritance, and given them into thine hand: thou didst shew them no mercy; upon the ancient hast thou very heavily laid thy yoke.
2 Chronicles 36:17
Therefore he brought upon them the king of the Chaldees, who slew their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary, and had no compassion upon young man or maiden, old man, or him that stooped for age: he gave them all into his hand.
continual stroke.
Isaiah 13:14-18
And it shall be as the chased roe, and as a sheep that no man taketh up: they shall every man turn to his own people, and flee every one into his own land…
Isaiah 21:1-10
The burden of the desert of the sea. As whirlwinds in the south pass through; so it cometh from the desert, from a terrible land…
Isaiah 47:1
Come down, and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon, sit on the ground: there is no throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans: for thou shalt no more be called tender and delicate.
and none
Isaiah 46:10,11
Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure: …
Job 9:13
If God will not withdraw his anger, the proud helpers do stoop under him.
Proverbs 21:30
There is no wisdom nor understanding nor counsel against the LORD.
