Isaiah 43:17
Good News Translation
He led a mighty army to destruction, an army of chariots and horses. Down they fell, never to rise, snuffed out like the flame of a lamp!

New Revised Standard Version
who brings out chariot and horse, army and warrior; they lie down, they cannot rise, they are extinguished, quenched like a wick:

Contemporary English Version
I sent an army to chase you with chariots and horses; now they lie dead, unable to move. They are like an oil lamp with the flame snuffed out.

New American Bible
Who leads out chariots and horsemen, a powerful army, Till they lie prostrate together, never to rise, snuffed out, quenched like a wick.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Who brought forth the chariot and the horse, the army and the strong: they lay down to sleep together, and they shall not rise again: they are broken as flax, and are extinct.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Who brought forth the chariot and the horse, the army and the strong: they lay down to sleep together, and they shall not rise again: they are broken as flax, and are extinct.

bringeth

Exodus 14:4-9,23-28 And I shall harden his heart and he will pursue you: and I shall be glorified in Pharao, and in all his army: and the Egyptians shall know that I am the Lord. And they did so. . . .

Exodus 15:4 Pharao's chariots and his army he hath cast into the sea: his chosen captains are drowned in the Red Sea.

Psalm 46:8,9 Come and behold ye the works of the Lord: what wonders he hath done upon earth, . . .

Psalm 76:5,6 All the foolish of heart were troubled. They have slept their sleep; and all the men of riches have found nothing in their hands. . . .

Ezekiel 38:8-18 After many days thou shalt be visited: at the end of years thou shalt come to the land that is returned from the sword, and is gathered out of many nations, to the mountains of Israel which have been continually waste: but it hath been brought forth out of the nations, and they shall all of them dwell securely in it. . . .

they shall

Isaiah 14:20-22 Thou shalt not keep company with them, even in burial: for thou hast destroyed thy land, thou hast slain thy people: the seed of the wicked shall not be named for ever. . . .

Revelation 19:17 And I saw an angel standing in the sun: and he cried with a loud voice, saying to all the birds that did fly through the midst of heaven: Come, gather yourselves together to the great supper of God:

Revelation 20:8-9 And they came upon the breadth of the earth and encompassed the camp of the saints and the beloved city. . . .

they are

Isaiah 1:31 And your strength shall be as the ashes of tow, and your work as a spark: and both shall burn together, and there shall be none to quench it.

Context
God's Mercy
16Thus saith the Lord, who made a way in the sea, and a path in the mighty waters. 17Who brought forth the chariot and the horse, the army and the strong: they lay down to sleep together, and they shall not rise again: they are broken as flax, and are extinct.18Remember not former things, and look not on things of old.…
Cross References
Matthew 12:20
The bruised reed he shall not break: and smoking flax he shall not extinguish: till he send forth judgment unto victory.

Exodus 15:19
For Pharao went in on horseback with his chariots and horsemen into the sea: and the Lord brought back upon them the waters of the sea: but the children of Israel walked on dry ground in the midst thereof.

Psalm 118:12
They surrounded me like bees, and they burned like fire among thorns: and in the name of the Lord I was revenged on them.

Isaiah 1:31
And your strength shall be as the ashes of tow, and your work as a spark: and both shall burn together, and there shall be none to quench it.

Jeremiah 51:21
And with thee I will break in pieces the horse, and his rider, and with thee I will break in pieces the chariot, and him that getteth up into it:

Ezekiel 38:4
And I will turn thee about, and I will put a bit in thy jaws: and I will bring thee forth, and all thy army, horses and horsemen all clothed with coats of mail, a great multitude, armed with spears and shields and swords.

Isaiah 43:16
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