Isaiah 37:29 (WEB)
Because of your raging against me, and because your arrogance has come up into my ears, therefore I will put my hook in your nose and my bridle in your lips, and I will turn you back by the way by which you came.
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John Chrysostom
“For this cause the prophet also said, “Be ye angry, and sin not.”” — editor's note: Ps. iv. 5, LXX., comp. Eph. iv. 26. “Stand in awe, and sin not,” in our version. Another part of the same Hebrew verb is, however, rendered “rage” in our…
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Theodoret of Cyrus
““He put his hook into his nose and his bridle into his lips,” and turned him to the earth whence he was taken.” — editor's note: Isaiah xxxvii. 29
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Aphrahat
“Now see that the hook has been forced into thy nostrils, and the bridle into thy lips, and thou hast turned back with thine heart crushed, who camest with thine heart uplifted.” — editor's note: 2 Kings xix. 21–23, 28; Is. xxxvii. 22–24, 29.
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Parallel passages
2 Kings 19:28 and Isaiah 37:29 share the same wording (44 words).
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Cited together in Letters Letter 181.
Cited together in Letters Letter 181.