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Bible Verses About Reed

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  1. For Jehovah will smite Israel, as a reed is shaken in the water; and he will root up Israel out of this good land which he gave to their fathers, and will scatter them beyond the River, because they have made their Asherim, provoking Jehovah to anger.

  2. Now, behold, thou trustest upon the staff of this bruised reed, even upon Egypt; whereon if a man lean, it will go into his hand, and pierce it: so is Pharaoh king of Egypt unto all that trust on him.

  3. And the rivers shall become foul; the streams of Egypt shall be diminished and dried up; the reeds and flags shall wither away.

  4. The meadows by the Nile, by the brink of the Nile, and all the sown fields of the Nile, shall become dry, be driven away, and be no more.

  5. And the glowing sand shall become a pool, and the thirsty ground springs of water: in the habitation of jackals, where they lay, shall be grass with reeds and rushes.

  6. Behold, thou trustest upon the staff of this bruised reed, even upon Egypt, whereon if a man lean, it will go into his hand, and pierce it: so is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all that trust on him.

  7. A bruised reed will he not break, and a dimly burning wick will he not quench: he will bring forth justice in truth.

  8. and the passages are seized, and the reeds they have burned with fire, and the men of war are affrighted.

  9. And all the inhabitants of Egypt shall know that I am Jehovah, because they have been a staff of reed to the house of Israel.

  10. And he brought me thither; and, behold, there was a man, whose appearance was like the appearance of brass, with a line of flax in his hand, and a measuring reed; and he stood in the gate.

  11. And the man said unto me, Son of man, behold with thine eyes, and hear with thine ears, and set thy heart upon all that I shall show thee; for, to the intent that I may show them unto thee, art thou brought hither: declare all that thou seest to the house of Israel.

  12. And, behold, a wall on the outside of the house round about, and in the man’s hand a measuring reed six cubits long, of a cubit and a handbreadth each: so he measured the thickness of the building, one reed; and the height, one reed.

  13. Then came he unto the gate which looketh toward the east, and went up the steps thereof: and he measured the threshold of the gate, one reed broad; and the other threshold, one reed broad.

  14. And every lodge was one reed long, and one reed broad; and the space between the lodges was five cubits; and the threshold of the gate by the porch of the gate toward the house was one reed.

  15. He measured also the porch of the gate toward the house, one reed.

  16. I saw also that the house had a raised basement round about: the foundations of the side-chambers were a full reed of six great cubits.

  17. He measured on the east side with the measuring reed five hundred reeds, with the measuring reed round about.

  18. He measured on the north side five hundred reeds with the measuring reed round about.

  19. He measured on the south side five hundred reeds with the measuring reed.

  20. He turned about to the west side, and measured five hundred reeds with the measuring reed.

  21. Moreover, when ye shall divide by lot the land for inheritance, ye shall offer an oblation unto Jehovah, a holy portion of the land; the length shall be the length of five and twenty thousand reeds, and the breadth shall be ten thousand: it shall be holy in all the border thereof round about.

  22. And as these went their way, Jesus began to say unto the multitudes concerning John, What went ye out into the wilderness to behold? a reed shaken with the wind?

  23. A bruised reed shall he not break, And smoking flax shall he not quench, Till he send forth judgment unto victory.

  24. And they platted a crown of thorns and put it upon his head, and a reed in his right hand; and they kneeled down before him, and mocked him, saying, Hail, King of the Jews!

  25. And they spat upon him, and took the reed and smote him on the head.