"Behold, he breaketh down, and it cannot be built again: he shutteth up a man, and there can be no opening."
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This day will the LORD deliver thee into mine hand; and I will smite thee, and take thine head from thee; and I will give the carcasses of the host of the Philistines this day unto the fowls of the air, and to the wild beasts of the earth; that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel.
And thou hast showed this day how that thou hast dealt well with me: forasmuch as when the LORD had delivered me into thine hand, thou killedst me not.
Then said Abishai to David, God hath delivered thine enemy into thine hand this day: now therefore let me smite him, I pray thee, with the spear even to the earth at once, and I will not smite him the second time.
Behold, he taketh away, who can hinder him? who will say unto him, What doest thou?
I will also make it a possession for the bittern, and pools of water: and I will sweep it with the besom of destruction, saith the LORD of hosts.
For thou hast made of a city an heap; of a defenced city a ruin: a palace of strangers to be no city; it shall never be built.
Thus saith the LORD of hosts; The broad walls of Babylon shall be utterly broken, and her high gates shall be burned with fire; and the people shall labour in vain, and the folk in the fire, and they shall be weary.
And thou shalt say, Thus shall Babylon sink, and shall not rise from the evil that I will bring upon her: and they shall be weary. Thus far are the words of Jeremiah.
For God hath concluded them all in unbelief, that he might have mercy upon all.
If he cut off, and shut up, or gather together, then who can hinder him?
God hath delivered me to the ungodly, and turned me over into the hands of the wicked.
He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am gone: and mine hope hath he removed like a tree.
He sealeth up the hand of every man; that all men may know his work.
Whereas Edom saith, We are impoverished, but we will return and build the desolate places; thus saith the LORD of hosts, They shall build, but I will throw down; and they shall call them, The border of wickedness, and, The people against whom the LORD hath indignation for ever.
And the key of the house of David will I lay upon his shoulder; so he shall open, and none shall shut; and he shall shut, and none shall open.
And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write; These things saith he that is holy, he that is true, he that hath the key of David, he that openeth, and no man shutteth; and shutteth, and no man openeth;
Truly, there is no building up of what is pulled down by him; when a man is shut up by him, no one may let him loose.
Behold, he breaketh down, and it is not built again; he shutteth up a man, and there is no opening.
Behold, he breaketh down, and it cannot be built again: he shutteth up a man, and there can be no opening.
Behold, he breaketh down, and it cannot be built again: he shutteth up a man, and there can be no opening.
Behold, he breaks down, and it can't be built again; He imprisons a man, and there can be no release.
Lo, He breaketh down, and it is not built up, He shutteth against a man, And it is not opened.