Quotes about Authority
I will drive him like a peg into a firm place, and he will be a throne of glory for the house of his father.
— Isaiah 22:23
O LORD our God, other lords besides You have had dominion, but Your name alone do we confess.
— Isaiah 26:13
You have turned things upside down, as if the potter were regarded as clay. Shall what is formed say to him who formed it, “He did not make me”? Can the pottery say of the potter, “He has no understanding”?
— Isaiah 29:16
Behold, a king will reign in righteousness, and princes will rule with justice.
— Isaiah 32:1
For the LORD is our Judge, the LORD is our lawgiver, the LORD is our King. It is He who will save us.
— Isaiah 33:22
No nobles will be left to proclaim a king, and all her princes will come to nothing.
— Isaiah 34:12
For how can you repel a single officer among the least of my master’s servants when you depend on Egypt for chariots and horsemen?
— Isaiah 36:9
Then the Rabshakeh stood and called out loudly in Hebrew: “Hear the words of the great king, the king of Assyria!
— Isaiah 36:13
But the people remained silent and did not answer a word, for Hezekiah had commanded, “Do not answer him.”
— Isaiah 36:21
He brings the princes to nothing and makes the rulers of the earth meaningless.
— Isaiah 40:23
Who has declared this from the beginning, so that we may know, and from times past, so that we may say: ‘He was right’? No one announced it, no one foretold it, no one heard your words.
— Isaiah 41:26
Even from eternity I am He, and none can deliver out of My hand. When I act, who can reverse it?”
— Isaiah 43:13