Job 38:3, 40:7, Isa 8:9-10, 41:6-7, 21-22, Joe 3:10-11 | ESV | STEP | Dress for action like a man ; I will question you, and you make it known to me.

Job 38:3

3 ^aDress for action ^{▼▼Hebrew Gird up your loins} like a man;
I will question you, and you make it known to me.

Job 40:7

7 ^c“Dress for action ^{▼▼Hebrew Gird up your loins} like a man;
^eI will question you, and you make it known to me.

Isaiah 8:9-10

9 Be broken, ^{▼▼Or Be evil} you peoples, and ^gbe shattered; ^{▼▼Or dismayed}
give ear, all you far countries;
strap on your armor and be shattered;
strap on your armor and be shattered.
10 Take counsel together, but it will come to nothing;
speak a word, ⁱbut it will not stand,
for God ^jis with us. ^{▼▼The Hebrew for God is with us is Immanuel}

Isaiah 41:6-7

6 Everyone helps his neighbor
and says to his brother, “Be strong!”
7 ^lThe craftsman strengthens the goldsmith,
and he who smooths with the hammer him who strikes the anvil,
saying of the soldering, “It is good”;
and they strengthen it with nails ^mso that it cannot be moved.

Isaiah 41:21-22

The Futility of Idols

21 Set forth your case, says the Lord;
bring your proofs, says the King of Jacob.
22 Let them bring them, and ⁿtell us
what is to happen.
Tell us the former things, what they are,
that we may consider them,
that we may know their outcome;
or declare to us the things to come.

Joel 3:10-11

10 ^oBeat your plowshares into swords,
and ^pyour pruning hooks into spears;
let the weak say, “I am a warrior.”
11 ^qHasten and come,
all you surrounding nations,
and gather yourselves there.
^rBring down your warriors, O Lord.