Isaiah 27:1

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Isaiah 27:1–3 · Berean Standard Bible

1 In that day the LORD will take His sharp, great, and mighty sword, and bring judgment on Leviathan the fleeing serpent —Leviathan the coiling serpent—and He will slay the dragon of the sea.

2 In that day: “Sing about a fruitful vineyard.

3 I, the LORD, am its keeper; I water it continually. I guard it night and day so no one can disturb it;

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The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

Isaiah 26:21

For behold, the LORD is coming out of His dwelling to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity. The earth will reveal her bloodshed and will no longer conceal her slain.

Isaiah 34:5

When My sword has drunk its fill in the heavens, then it will come down upon Edom, upon the people I have devoted to destruction.

Isaiah 34:6

The sword of the LORD is bathed in blood. It drips with fat— with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams. For the LORD has a sacrifice in Bozrah, a great slaughter in the land of Edom.

Isaiah 66:16

For by fire and by His sword, the LORD will execute judgment on all flesh, and many will be slain by the LORD.

Deuteronomy 32:41

when I sharpen My flashing sword, and My hand grasps it in judgment, I will take vengeance on My adversaries and repay those who hate Me.

Deuteronomy 32:42

I will make My arrows drunk with blood, while My sword devours flesh— the blood of the slain and captives, the heads of the enemy leaders.”

Job 40:19

He is the foremost of God’s works; only his Maker can draw the sword against him.

Psalms 45:3

Strap your sword at your side, O mighty warrior; appear in your majesty and splendor.

Jeremiah 47:6

‘Alas, O sword of the LORD, how long until you rest? Return to your sheath; cease and be still!’

Revelation 2:16

Therefore repent! Otherwise I will come to you shortly and wage war against them with the sword of My mouth.

Revelation 19:21

And the rest were killed with the sword that proceeded from the mouth of the One seated on the horse. And all the birds gorged themselves on their flesh.

Job 12:1

Then Job answered:

Job 12:2

“Truly then you are the people with whom wisdom itself will die!

Job 12:3

But I also have a mind; I am not inferior to you. Who does not know such things as these?

Job 12:4

I am a laughingstock to my friends, though I called on God, and He answered. The righteous and upright man is a laughingstock.

Job 12:5

The one at ease scorns misfortune as the fate of those whose feet are slipping.

Job 12:6

The tents of robbers are safe, and those who provoke God are secure— those who carry their god in their hands.

Job 12:7

But ask the animals, and they will instruct you; ask the birds of the air, and they will tell you.

Job 12:8

Or speak to the earth, and it will teach you; let the fish of the sea inform you.

Job 12:9

Which of all these does not know that the hand of the LORD has done this?

Job 12:10

The life of every living thing is in His hand, as well as the breath of all mankind.

Job 12:11

Does not the ear test words as the tongue tastes its food?

Job 12:12

Wisdom is found with the elderly, and understanding comes with long life.

Job 12:13

Wisdom and strength belong to God; counsel and understanding are His.

Job 12:14

What He tears down cannot be rebuilt; the man He imprisons cannot be released.

Job 12:15

If He holds back the waters, they dry up, and if He releases them, they overwhelm the land.

Job 12:16

True wisdom and power belong to Him. The deceived and the deceiver are His.

Job 12:17

He leads counselors away barefoot and makes fools of judges.

Job 12:18

He loosens the bonds placed by kings and fastens a belt around their waists.

Job 12:19

He leads priests away barefoot and overthrows the established.

Job 12:20

He deprives the trusted of speech and takes away the discernment of elders.

Job 12:21

He pours out contempt on nobles and disarms the mighty.

Job 12:22

He reveals the deep things of darkness and brings deep shadows into light.

Job 12:23

He makes nations great and destroys them; He enlarges nations, then disperses them.

Job 12:24

He deprives the earth’s leaders of reason and makes them wander in a trackless wasteland.

Job 12:25

They grope in the darkness without light; He makes them stagger like drunkards.

Psalms 74:14

You crushed the heads of Leviathan; You fed him to the creatures of the desert.

Psalms 104:26

There the ships pass, and Leviathan, which You formed to frolic there.

Isaiah 65:25

The wolf and the lamb will feed together, and the lion will eat straw like the ox, but the food of the serpent will be dust. They will neither harm nor destroy on all My holy mountain,” says the LORD.

Job 26:13

By His breath the skies were cleared; His hand pierced the fleeing serpent.

Isaiah 51:9

Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the LORD. Wake up as in days past, as in generations of old. Was it not You who cut Rahab to pieces, who pierced through the dragon?

Psalms 74:13

You divided the sea by Your strength; You smashed the heads of the dragons of the sea;

Jeremiah 51:34

“Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has devoured me; he has crushed me. He has set me aside like an empty vessel; he has swallowed me like a monster; he filled his belly with my delicacies and vomited me out.

Ezekiel 29:3

Speak to him and tell him that this is what the Lord GOD says: Behold, I am against you, O Pharaoh king of Egypt, O great monster who lies among his rivers, who says, ‘The Nile is mine; I made it myself.’

Ezekiel 32:2

“Son of man, take up a lament for Pharaoh king of Egypt and say to him: ‘You are like a lion among the nations; you are like a monster in the seas. You thrash about in your rivers, churning up the waters with your feet and muddying the streams.’

Ezekiel 32:3

This is what the Lord GOD says: ‘I will spread My net over you with a company of many peoples, and they will draw you up in My net.

Ezekiel 32:4

I will abandon you on the land and hurl you into the open field. I will cause all the birds of the air to settle upon you, and all the beasts of the earth to eat their fill of you.

Ezekiel 32:5

I will put your flesh on the mountains and fill the valleys with your remains.

Revelation 12:3

Then another sign appeared in heaven: a huge red dragon with seven heads, ten horns, and seven royal crowns on his heads.

Revelation 12:4

His tail swept a third of the stars from the sky, tossing them to the earth. And the dragon stood before the woman who was about to give birth, ready to devour her child as soon as she gave birth.

Revelation 12:5

And she gave birth to a son, a male child, who will rule all the nations with an iron scepter. And her child was caught up to God and to His throne.

Revelation 12:6

And the woman fled into the wilderness, where God had prepared a place for her to be nourished for 1,260 days.

Revelation 12:7

Then a war broke out in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon, and the dragon and his angels fought back.

Revelation 12:8

But the dragon was not strong enough, and no longer was any place found in heaven for him and his angels.

Revelation 12:9

And the great dragon was hurled down—that ancient serpent called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world. He was hurled to the earth, and his angels with him.

Revelation 12:10

And I heard a loud voice in heaven saying: “Now have come the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God, and the authority of His Christ. For the accuser of our brothers has been thrown down— he who accuses them day and night before our God.

Revelation 12:11

They have conquered him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony. And they did not love their lives so as to shy away from death.

Revelation 12:12

Therefore rejoice, O heavens, and you who dwell in them! But woe to the earth and the sea; with great fury the devil has come down to you, knowing he has only a short time.”

Revelation 12:13

And when the dragon saw that he had been thrown to the earth, he pursued the woman who had given birth to the male child.

Revelation 12:14

But the woman was given two wings of a great eagle to fly from the presence of the serpent to her place in the wilderness, where she was nourished for a time, and times, and half a time.

Revelation 12:15

Then from the mouth of the serpent spewed water like a river to overtake the woman and sweep her away in the torrent.

Revelation 12:16

But the earth helped the woman and opened its mouth to swallow up the river that had poured from the dragon’s mouth.

Revelation 12:17

And the dragon was enraged at the woman, and went to make war with the rest of her children, who keep the commandments of God and hold to the testimony of Jesus. And the dragon stood on the shore of the sea.

Revelation 13:2

The beast I saw was like a leopard, with the feet of a bear and the mouth of a lion. And the dragon gave the beast his power and his throne and great authority.

Revelation 13:4

They worshiped the dragon who had given authority to the beast, and they worshiped the beast, saying, “Who is like the beast, and who can wage war against it?”

Revelation 13:11

Then I saw another beast rising out of the earth. This beast had two horns like a lamb, but spoke like a dragon.

Revelation 16:13

And I saw three unclean spirits that looked like frogs coming out of the mouths of the dragon, the beast, and the false prophet.

Revelation 20:2

He seized the dragon, that ancient serpent who is the devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years.

Jeremiah 51:13

You who dwell by many waters, rich in treasures, your end has come; the thread of your life is cut.

Revelation 13:1

Then I saw a beast with ten horns and seven heads rising out of the sea. There were ten royal crowns on its horns and blasphemous names on its heads.

Revelation 17:1

Then one of the seven angels with the seven bowls came and said to me, “Come, I will show you the punishment of the great prostitute, who sits on many waters.

Revelation 17:15

Then the angel said to me, “The waters you saw, where the prostitute was seated, are peoples and multitudes and nations and tongues.