Exodus 9:16

16 aBut for this purpose I have raised you up, to show you my power, so bthat my name may be proclaimed in all the earth.

Proverbs 16:4

4 cThe Lord has made everything for its purpose,
even dthe wicked for the day of trouble.

Isaiah 10:5-6

Judgment on Arrogant Assyria

5 Woe to Assyria, ethe rod of my anger;
the staff in their hands is my fury!
6Against a fgodless nation I send him,
and against the people of my wrath I command him,
to take gspoil and seize plunder,
and to htread them down like the mire of the streets.

Isaiah 10:15

15 Shall ithe axe boast over him who hews with it,
or the saw magnify itself against him who wields it?
As if a rod should wield him who lifts it,
or as if a staff should lift him who is not wood!

Isaiah 37:26

26 j“‘Have you not heard
that I determined it long ago?
I planned from days of old
what now I bring to pass,
that you should make fortified cities
crash into heaps of ruins,

Isaiah 46:11

11 kcalling a bird of prey from the east,
the man of my counsel from a far country.
lI have spoken, and I will bring it to pass;
I have purposed, and I will do it.

Daniel 4:34-35

Nebuchadnezzar Restored

34 mAt the end of the days I, Nebuchadnezzar, lifted my eyes to heaven, and nmy reason returned to me, and I blessed the Most High, and praised and honored ohim who lives forever,

pfor his dominion is an everlasting dominion,
and qhis kingdom endures from generation to generation;
35 rall the inhabitants of the earth are accounted as nothing,
and she does according to his will among the host of heaven
and among the inhabitants of the earth;
tand none can stay his hand
or usay to him, “What have you done?”

John 19:11

11Jesus answered him, v“You would have no authority over me at all unless it had been given you from above. Therefore whe who delivered me over to you xhas the greater sin.”

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