Lexicon :: Strong's G3841 - pantokratōr

David became more and more powerful, and the LORD God of Armies was with him.

“So now this is what you are to say to my servant David: ‘This is what the LORD of Armies says: I took you from the pasture, from tending the flock, to be ruler over my people Israel.

Now, LORD God, fulfill the promise forever that you have made to your servant and his house. Do as you have promised,

since you, LORD of Armies, God of Israel, have revealed this to your servant when you said, “I will build a house for you.” Therefore, your servant has found the courage to pray this prayer to you.

He replied, “I have been very zealous for the LORD God of Armies, but the Israelites have abandoned your covenant, torn down your altars, and killed your prophets with the sword. I alone am left, and they are looking for me to take my life.”

“I have been very zealous for the LORD God of Armies,” he replied, “but the Israelites have abandoned your covenant, torn down your altars, and killed your prophets with the sword. I alone am left, and they’re looking for me to take my life.”

David steadily grew more powerful, and the LORD of Armies was with him.

“So now this is what you are to say to my servant David: ‘This is what the LORD of Armies says: I took you from the pasture, from tending the flock, to be ruler over my people Israel.

Let your name be confirmed and magnified forever in the saying, “The LORD of Armies, the God of Israel, is God over Israel.” May the house of your servant David be established before you.

Riches and honor come from you, and you are the ruler of everything. Power and might are in your hand, and it is in your hand to make great and to give strength to all.

See how happy is the person whom God corrects;

so do not reject the discipline of the Almighty.

But if you earnestly seek God

and ask the Almighty for mercy,

Can you fathom the depths of God

or discover the limits of the Almighty?

For he has stretched out his hand against God

and has arrogantly opposed the Almighty.

They were the ones who said to God, “Leave us alone! ”

and “What can the Almighty do to us? ”[fn]

the Almighty will be your gold

and your finest silver.

God has made my heart faint;

the Almighty has terrified me.

As God lives, who has deprived me of justice,

and the Almighty who has made me bitter,

I will teach you about God’s power.

I will not conceal what the Almighty has planned.[fn]

This is a wicked man’s lot from God,

the inheritance the ruthless receive from the Almighty.

But it is the spirit in a person—

the breath from the Almighty—

that gives anyone understanding.

The Spirit of God has made me,

and the breath of the Almighty gives me life.

Therefore listen to me, you men of understanding.

It is impossible for God to do wrong,

and for the Almighty to act unjustly.

Indeed, it is true that God does not act wickedly

and the Almighty does not pervert justice.

Indeed, God does not listen to empty cries,

and the Almighty does not take note of it —

Out of the north he comes, shrouded in a golden glow;

awesome majesty surrounds him.

I thought, “How I long to make you my sons

and give you a desirable land,

the most beautiful inheritance of all the nations.”

I thought, “You will call me ‘My Father’

and never turn away from me.”

Therefore, this is what the Lord GOD of Armies says:

Because you have spoken this word,

I am going to make my words

become fire in your mouth.

These people are the wood,

and the fire will consume them.

Your words were found, and I ate them.

Your words became a delight to me

and the joy of my heart,

for I bear your name,

LORD God of Armies.

This is what the LORD of Armies says: “Do not listen to the words of the prophets who prophesy to you. They are deluding you. They speak visions from their own minds, not from the LORD’s mouth.

“Then you are to say to them, ‘This is what the LORD of Armies, the God of Israel, says: Drink, get drunk, and vomit. Fall down and never get up again, as a result of the sword I am sending among you.’

“This is what the LORD says:

The one who gives the sun for light by day,

the fixed order of moon and stars for light by night,

who stirs up the sea and makes its waves roar —

the LORD of Armies is his name:

“‘This is what the LORD of Armies, the God of Israel, says: Take these scrolls ​— ​this purchase agreement with the sealed copy and this open copy ​— ​and put them in an earthen storage jar so they will last a long time.

“the one great in counsel and powerful in action. Your eyes are on all the ways of the children of men[fn] in order to reward each person according to his ways and as the result of his actions.

“a sound of joy and gladness, the voice of the groom and the bride, and the voice of those saying,

Give thanks to the LORD of Armies,

for the LORD is good;

his faithful love endures forever

as they bring thanksgiving sacrifices to the temple of the LORD. For I will restore the fortunes of the land as in former times, says the LORD.

“So now, this is what the LORD, the God of Armies, the God of Israel, says: Why are you doing such terrible harm to yourselves? You are cutting off man and woman, infant and nursing baby from Judah, leaving yourselves without a remnant.

“As when Sodom and Gomorrah were overthrown along with their neighbors,” says the LORD, “no one will live there; no human being will stay in it even temporarily.

Their Redeemer is strong;

the LORD of Armies is his name.

He will fervently champion their cause

so that he might bring rest to the earth

but turmoil to those who live in Babylon.

For Israel and Judah are not left widowed

by their God, the LORD of Armies,

though their land is full of guilt

against the Holy One of Israel.

I will make her princes and sages drunk,

along with her governors, officials, and warriors.

Then they will fall asleep forever

and never wake up.

This is the King’s declaration;

the LORD of Armies is his name.

The LORD is the God of Armies;

the LORD is his name.

Listen and testify against the house of Jacob —

this is the declaration of the Lord GOD,

the God of Armies.

He is here:

the one who forms the mountains,

creates the wind,

and reveals his thoughts to man,

the one who makes the dawn out of darkness

and strides on the heights of the earth.

The LORD, the God of Armies, is his name.

The one who made the Pleiades and Orion,

who turns darkness[fn] into dawn

and darkens day into night,

who summons the water of the sea

and pours it out over the surface of the earth —

the LORD is his name.

Pursue good and not evil

so that you may live,

and the LORD, the God of Armies,

will be with you

as you have claimed.

“So I will send you into exile beyond Damascus.” The LORD, the God of Armies, is his name. He has spoken.

The Lord, the GOD of Armies —

he touches the earth;

it melts, and all who dwell in it mourn;

all of it rises like the Nile

and subsides like the Nile of Egypt.