the nail

Isaiah 22:15, 16
Thus says the Lord GOD of Hosts: "Go, say to Shebna, the steward in charge of the palace: . . .

the burden

Esther 9:5-14, 24, 25
The Jews put all their enemies to the sword, killing and destroying them, and they did what they pleased to those who hated them. . . .

Psalm 52:5
Surely God will bring you down to everlasting ruin; He will snatch you up and tear you away from your tent; He will uproot you from the land of the living. Selah

Psalm 146:3
Put not your trust in princes, in mortal man, who cannot save.

Jeremiah 17:5, 6
This is what the LORD says: "Cursed is the man who trusts in mankind, who makes the flesh his strength and turns his heart from the LORD. . . .

for the

Isaiah 46:11
I summon a bird of prey from the east, a man for My purpose from a far-off land. Truly I have spoken, truly I will bring it to pass. I have planned it, I will surely do it.

Isaiah 48:15
I, even I, have spoken; yes, I have called him. I have brought him, and he will succeed in his mission.

Jeremiah 4:28
Therefore the earth will mourn and the heavens above grow dark. I have spoken, I have planned, and I will not relent or turn back.

Ezekiel 5:13, 15, 17
And when My anger is spent and I have vented My wrath against them, I will be appeased. And when I have spent My wrath on them, they will know that I, the LORD, in My zeal have spoken. . . .

Micah 4:4
And each man will sit under his own vine and under his own fig tree, with no one to frighten him. For the mouth of the LORD of Hosts has spoken.