271 verses about power

Yahweh’s angel appeared to him in a flame of fire out of the middle of a bush. He looked, and behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed.

Yahweh said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand, and take it by the tail.” He stretched out his hand, and took hold of it, and it became a rod in his hand.

I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and multiply my signs and my wonders in the land of Egypt.

Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh, and they did so, as Yahweh had commanded: and Aaron cast down his rod before Pharaoh and before his servants, and it became a serpent.

but indeed for this cause I have made you stand: to show you my power, and that my name may be declared throughout all the earth;

Yahweh is a man of war. Yahweh is his name.

Your right hand, Yahweh, is glorious in power. Your right hand, Yahweh, dashes the enemy in pieces.

With the blast of your nostrils, the waters were piled up. The floods stood upright as a heap. The deeps were congealed in the heart of the sea.

You blew with your wind. The sea covered them. They sank like lead in the mighty waters.

You stretched out your right hand. The earth swallowed them.

All of Mount Sinai smoked, because Yahweh descended on it in fire; and its smoke ascended like the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mountain quaked greatly.

The appearance of Yahweh’s glory was like devouring fire on the top of the mountain in the eyes of the children of Israel.

Yet they are your people and your inheritance, which you brought out by your great power and by your outstretched arm.”

and what he did to the army of Egypt, to their horses, and to their chariots; how he made the water of the Red Sea to overflow them as they pursued you, and how Yahweh has destroyed them to this day;

On that day, Yahweh magnified Joshua in the sight of all Israel; and they feared him, as they feared Moses, all the days of his life.

Joshua spoke to the house of Joseph, that is, to Ephraim and to Manasseh, saying, “You are a numerous people, and have great power. You shall not have one lot only;

“For Yahweh has driven great and strong nations out from before you. But as for you, no man has stood before you to this day.

Yahweh thundered from heaven. The Most High uttered his voice.

Then Yahweh’s fire fell, and consumed the burnt offering, the wood, the stones, and the dust, and licked up the water that was in the trench.

He said, “Go out, and stand on the mountain before Yahweh.” Behold, Yahweh passed by, and a great and strong wind tore the mountains, and broke in pieces the rocks before Yahweh; but Yahweh was not in the wind. After the wind there was an earthquake; but Yahweh was not in the earthquake.

Elijah answered to the captain of fifty, “If I am a man of God, then let fire come down from the sky, and consume you and your fifty!” Then fire came down from the sky, and consumed him and his fifty.

He also took up Elijah’s mantle that fell from him, and went back, and stood by the bank of the Jordan.

Both riches and honor come from you, and you rule over all! In your hand is power and might! It is in your hand to make great, and to give strength to all!

and he said, “Yahweh, the God of our fathers, aren’t you God in heaven? Aren’t you ruler over all the kingdoms of the nations? Power and might are in your hand, so that no one is able to withstand you.

The king took his ring from his hand, and gave it to Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, the Jews’ enemy.

The king said to Haman, “The silver is given to you, the people also, to do with them as it seems good to you.”

For Mordecai was great in the king’s house, and his fame went out throughout all the provinces; for the man Mordecai grew greater and greater.

All the acts of his power and of his might, and the full account of the greatness of Mordecai, to which the king advanced him, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Media and Persia?

If he is pleased to contend with him, he can’t answer him one time in a thousand.

He removes the mountains, and they don’t know it, when he overturns them in his anger.

He shakes the earth out of its place. Its pillars tremble.

He commands the sun, and it doesn’t rise, and seals up the stars.

He alone stretches out the heavens, and treads on the waves of the sea.

Behold, he snatches away. Who can hinder him? Who will ask him, ‘What are you doing?’

If my head is held high, you hunt me like a lion. Again you show yourself powerful to me.

If he passes by, or confines, or convenes a court, then who can oppose him?

Behold, he withholds the waters, and they dry up. Again, he sends them out, and they overturn the earth.

He loosens the bond of kings. He binds their waist with a belt.

“Why do the wicked live, become old, yes, and grow mighty in power?

But as for the mighty man, he had the earth. The honorable man, he lived in it.

But he stands alone, and who can oppose him? What his soul desires, even that he does.

Yet God preserves the mighty by his power. He rises up who has no assurance of life.

Can his armies be counted? On whom does his light not arise?

He encloses the face of his throne, and spreads his cloud on it.

The pillars of heaven tremble and are astonished at his rebuke.

He stirs up the sea with his power, and by his understanding he strikes through Rahab.

Behold, these are but the outskirts of his ways. How small a whisper do we hear of him! But the thunder of his power who can understand?”

He puts his hand on the flinty rock, and he overturns the mountains by the roots.

He breaks in pieces mighty men in ways past finding out, and sets others in their place.

Behold, God is exalted in his power. Who is a teacher like him?

Behold, God is great, and we don’t know him. The number of his years is unsearchable.

He covers his hands with the lightning, and commands it to strike the mark.

Its noise tells about him, and the livestock also concerning the storm that comes up.

He sends it out under the whole sky, and his lightning to the ends of the earth.

After it a voice roars. He thunders with the voice of his majesty. He doesn’t hold back anything when his voice is heard.

Do you know how God controls them, and causes the lightning of his cloud to shine?

We can’t reach the Almighty. He is exalted in power. In justice and great righteousness, he will not oppress.

Can you send out lightnings, that they may go? Do they report to you, ‘Here we are?’

Then Yahweh answered Job out of the whirlwind,

Can you put a rope into his nose, or pierce his jaw through with a hook?

Will you play with him as with a bird? Or will you bind him for your girls?

Can you fill his skin with barbed irons, or his head with fish spears?

None is so fierce that he dare stir him up. Who then is he who can stand before me?

Who can open the doors of his face? Around his teeth is terror.

Out of his nostrils a smoke goes, as of a boiling pot over a fire of reeds.

His breath kindles coals. A flame goes out of his mouth.

When he raises himself up, the mighty are afraid. They retreat before his thrashing.

He counts iron as straw; and brass as rotten wood.

He makes the deep to boil like a pot. He makes the sea like a pot of ointment.

Then the channels of waters appeared. The foundations of the world were laid bare at your rebuke, Yahweh, at the blast of the breath of your nostrils.

Be exalted, Yahweh, in your strength, so we will sing and praise your power.

Yahweh’s voice is on the waters. The God of glory thunders, even Yahweh on many waters.

Yahweh’s voice is powerful. Yahweh’s voice is full of majesty.

Yahweh’s voice breaks the cedars. Yes, Yahweh breaks in pieces the cedars of Lebanon.

Yahweh’s voice strikes with flashes of lightning.

Yahweh’s voice shakes the wilderness. Yahweh shakes the wilderness of Kadesh.

Yahweh sat enthroned at the Flood. Yes, Yahweh sits as King forever.

For he spoke, and it was done. He commanded, and it stood firm.

I have seen the wicked in great power, spreading himself like a green tree in its native soil.

The nations raged. The kingdoms were moved. He lifted his voice, and the earth melted.

God has spoken once; twice I have heard this, that power belongs to God.

Who by his power forms the mountains, having armed yourself with strength;

Tell God, “How awesome are your deeds! Through the greatness of your power, your enemies submit themselves to you.

You divided the sea by your strength. You broke the heads of the sea monsters in the waters.

At your rebuke, God of Jacob, both chariot and horse are cast into a dead sleep.

He will cut off the spirit of princes. He is feared by the kings of the earth.

The clouds poured out water. The skies resounded with thunder. Your arrows also flashed around.

The voice of your thunder was in the whirlwind. The lightnings lit up the world. The earth trembled and shook.

Yet he commanded the skies above, and opened the doors of heaven.

He caused the east wind to blow in the sky. By his power he guided the south wind.

You have broken Rahab in pieces, like one of the slain. You have scattered your enemies with your mighty arm.

The floods have lifted up, Yahweh, the floods have lifted up their voice. The floods lift up their waves.

In his hand are the deep places of the earth. The heights of the mountains are also his.

The mountains melt like wax at the presence of Yahweh, at the presence of the Lord of the whole earth.

At your rebuke they fled. At the voice of your thunder they hurried away.

He looks at the earth, and it trembles. He touches the mountains, and they smoke.

Nevertheless he saved them for his name’s sake, that he might make his mighty power known.

For he commands, and raises the stormy wind, which lifts up its waves.

He turns rivers into a desert, water springs into a thirsty ground,

that they may know that this is your hand; that you, Yahweh, have done it.