Job 41:2
2Can you put aa rope in his noseor pierce his jaw with ba hook?
Isaiah 37:29
29 cBecause you have raged against meand your complacency has come to my ears,
I will put my hook in your nose
and my bit in your mouth,
and dI will turn you back on the way
by which you came.’
Jeremiah 16:16
16“Behold, eI am sending for many fishers, declares the Lord, and they shall catch them. And afterward I will send for many hunters, and they shall hunt them from every mountain and every hill, and out fof the clefts of the rocks.Ezekiel 19:4
4The nations heard about him;ghe was caught in their pit,
hand they brought him with hooks
to the land of Egypt.
Ezekiel 19:9
9With hooks ithey put him in a cage ▼▼Or in a wooden collar
and kbrought him to the king of Babylon;
they brought him into custody,
that his voice should no more be heard
on lthe mountains of Israel.
Ezekiel 29:4
4I will mput hooks in your jaws,and make the fish of your streams stick to your scales;
and I will draw you up out of the midst of your streams,
with all the fish of your streams
that stick to your scales.
Habakkuk 1:14-15
14You make mankind like the fish of the sea,like crawling things that have no ruler.
15 nHe ▼
▼That is, the wicked foe
brings all of them up pwith a hook;he drags them out with his net;
he gathers them in his dragnet;
so he rejoices and is glad.
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