Quotes about Power
So like a lion I will pounce on them; like a leopard I will lurk by the path.
— Hosea 13:7
Where is your king now to save you in all your cities, and the rulers to whom you said, “Give me a king and princes”?
— Hosea 13:10
I will ransom them from the power of Sheol; I will redeem them from Death. Where, O Death, are your plagues? Where, O Sheol, is your sting? Compassion is hidden from My eyes.
— Hosea 13:14
Their appearance is like that of horses, and they gallop like swift steeds.
— Joel 2:4
With a sound like that of chariots they bound over the mountaintops, like the crackling of fire consuming stubble, like a mighty army deployed for battle.
— Joel 2:5
Beat your plowshares into swords and your pruning hooks into spears. Let the weak say, ‘I am strong!’
— Joel 3:10
So I will send fire upon the house of Hazael to consume the citadels of Ben-hadad.
— Amos 1:4
I will break down the gates of Damascus; I will cut off the ruler of the Valley of Aven and the one who wields the scepter in Beth-eden. The people of Aram will be exiled to Kir,” says the LORD.
— Amos 1:5
Yet it was I who destroyed the Amorite before them, though his height was like that of the cedars, and he was as strong as the oaks. Yet I destroyed his fruit above and his roots below.
— Amos 2:9
The lion has roared—who will not fear? The Lord GOD has spoken—who will not prophesy?
— Amos 3:8
Hear this word, you cows of Bashan on Mount Samaria, you women who oppress the poor and crush the needy, who say to your husbands, “Bring us more to drink.”
— Amos 4:1
For behold, He who forms the mountains, who creates the wind and reveals His thoughts to man, who turns the dawn to darkness and strides on the heights of the earth—the LORD, the God of Hosts, is His name.”
— Amos 4:13