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Psalm 76:5
Valiant men lie plundered, they have slept their last sleep. None of the men of war can lift their hands.
3There he broke the flaming arrows of the bow, the shield, and the sword, and the weapons of war. Selah.
4Glorious are you, and excellent, more than mountains of game.
5Valiant men lie plundered, they have slept their last sleep. None of the men of war can lift their hands.
6At your rebuke, God of Jacob, both chariot and horse are cast into a dead sleep.
7You, even you, are to be feared. Who can stand in your sight when you are angry?
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Hands that once wielded weapons now lie still, a stark picture of death in battle that confronts confidence in human strength before God.
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Nahum 3:18Your shepherds slumber, king of Assyria. Your nobles lie down. Your people are scattered on the mountains, and there is no one to gather them.Both describe powerful men lying in sleep, with devastation around them and no effective human response.
Psalm 13:3Behold, and answer me, LORD, my God. Give light to my eyes, lest I sleep in death;Both use sleep to speak of death: Psalm 13 fears it, while Psalm 76 describes warriors overtaken by it.
Jeremiah 51:39When they are inflamed, I will make their feast, and I will make them drunk, that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake up,” says the …Both describe a final sleep from which people do not rise, set in the context of God's judgment.
Isaiah 46:12Listen to me, you stubborn-hearted, who are far from righteousness!The link is limited: Isaiah addresses stubborn hearts, while the psalm describes warriors whose strength has failed.
Jeremiah 51:30The mighty men of Babylon have stopped fighting, they remain in their strongholds. Their might has failed. They have become as women. Her dwelling places are …Both portray warriors whose strength has failed and who can no longer fight.
2 Chronicles 32:21The LORD sent an angel, who cut off all the mighty men of valor, the leaders, and captains in the camp of the king of Assyria. So he returned with shame of …Both describe the death of mighty warriors under God's power, though the psalm does not name Assyria.
Luke 1:51–52He has shown strength with his arm. He has scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts.Both depict people brought down by God's strength: proud people in Luke and warriors in the psalm.
Daniel 4:37Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and extol and honor the King of heaven; for all his works are truth, and his ways justice; and those who walk in pride he is able …Both show the limits of human power before God; Daniel names pride, while the psalm describes defeated warriors.
Ezekiel 30:21–25“Son of man, I have broken the arm of Pharaoh king of Egypt. Behold, it has not been bound up, to apply medicines, to put a bandage to bind it, that it may …Both express lost military power through limbs that cannot act: the warriors' hands and Pharaoh's broken sword-bearing arm.
Isaiah 31:8“The Assyrian will fall by the sword, not of man; and the sword, not of mankind, shall devour him. He will flee from the sword, and his young men will become …Both describe warriors overcome by power beyond human force, though Psalm 76 does not identify the fallen men as Assyrians.
Job 40:10–12“Now deck yourself with excellency and dignity. Array yourself with honor and majesty.The connection is slight: Job speaks of displaying majesty, while the psalm shows the collapse of human military strength.
Isaiah 37:36Then the LORD’s angel went out and struck one hundred and eighty-five thousand men in the camp of the Assyrians. When men arose early in the morning, behold, …Both describe dead warriors in a setting of God's intervention; Isaiah names the Assyrian camp, while the psalm leaves it unnamed.
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The fallen warriors are dead, and the psalm does not soften that loss. Their strength has reached its limit before the God of Jacob.
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