Quotes about Authority
Youths oppress My people, and women rule over them. O My people, your guides mislead you; they turn you from your paths.
- Isaiah 3:12
The LORD arises to contend; He stands to judge the people.
- Isaiah 3:13
On that day the Lord will use a razor hired from beyond the Euphrates—the king of Assyria—to shave your head and the hair of your legs, and to remove your beard as well.
- Isaiah 7:20
To the law and to the testimony! If they do not speak according to this word, they have no light of dawn.
- Isaiah 8:20
“Are not all my commanders kings?” he says.
- Isaiah 10:8
Does an axe raise itself above the one who swings it? Does a saw boast over him who saws with it? It would be like a rod waving the one who lifts it, or a staff lifting him who is not wood!
- Isaiah 10:15
Behold, the Lord GOD of Hosts will lop off the branches with terrifying power. The tall trees will be cut down, the lofty ones will be felled.
- Isaiah 10:33
The LORD has broken the staff of the wicked, the scepter of the rulers.
- Isaiah 14:5
The LORD of Hosts has purposed, and who can thwart Him? His hand is outstretched, so who can turn it back?
- Isaiah 14:27
This is what the Lord GOD of Hosts says: “Go, say to Shebna, the steward in charge of the palace:
- Isaiah 22:15
What are you doing here, and who authorized you to carve out a tomb for yourself here—to chisel your tomb in the height and cut your resting place in the rock?
- Isaiah 22:16
Look, O mighty man! The LORD is about to shake you violently. He will take hold of you,
- Isaiah 22:17