Quotes about Challenge

Can anyone smash iron—iron from the north—or bronze?

So now, why have you not rebuked Jeremiah of Anathoth, who poses as a prophet among you?

Behold, one will come up like a lion from the thickets of the Jordan to the watered pasture. For in an instant I will chase Edom from her land. Who is the chosen one I will appoint for this? For who is like Me, and who can challenge Me? What shepherd can stand against Me?”

I laid a snare for you, O Babylon, and you were caught before you knew it. You were found and captured because you challenged the LORD.

Behold, one will come up like a lion from the thickets of the Jordan to the watered pasture. For in an instant I will chase Babylon from her land. Who is the chosen one I will appoint for this? For who is like Me, and who can challenge Me? What shepherd can stand against Me?”

He has besieged me and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship.

He has barred my ways with cut stones; He has made my paths crooked.

“Son of man, hasn’t the rebellious house of Israel asked you, ‘What are you doing?’

I also gave them over to statutes that were not good and ordinances by which they could not live.

Surely testing will come! And what if even the scepter, which the sword despises, does not continue?’ declares the Lord GOD.

It has frustrated every effort; its thick rust has not been removed, even by the fire.

therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Behold, O Tyre, I am against you, and I will raise up many nations against you, as the sea brings up its waves.