22 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

This verse quotes or alludes to 2 earlier texts.

• Ps 2:9 · adapted
  "Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter’s vessel."
  Psalm 2: he shall rule them with a rod of iron — Christ at his coming
• Isa 63:3 · allusion
  "I have trodden the winepress alone; and of the people there was none with me: for I will tread them in mine anger, and trample them in my fury; and their blood shall be sprinkled upon my garments, and I will stain all my raiment."
  Isaiah: treading the winepress — Christ as divine warrior

1 variant unit attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.

• Judgment
• Kingship of Christ
• Sovereignty of God

• Christ the Rider on the White Horse

3 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

• 2Thess 2:8 — And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming:
• 2Thess 2:8 — And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming:
• Dan 2:44 — And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all
• Eph 6:17 — And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God:
• Heb 4:12 — For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoug
• Isa 11:4 — But with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and reprove with equity for the meek of the earth: and he shall smite the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he slay
• Isa 11:4 — But with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and reprove with equity for the meek of the earth: and he shall smite the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he slay
• Isa 30:33 — For Tophet is ordained of old; yea, for the king it is prepared; he hath made it deep and large: the pile thereof is fire and much wood; the breath of the LORD, like a stream of brimstone, doth kindle
• Isa 49:2 — And he hath made my mouth like a sharp sword; in the shadow of his hand hath he hid me, and made me a polished shaft; in his quiver hath he hid me;
• Isa 63:2 — Wherefore art thou red in thine apparel, and thy garments like him that treadeth in the winefat?
• Lam 1:15 — The LORD hath trodden under foot all my mighty men in the midst of me: he hath called an assembly against me to crush my young men: the LORD hath trodden the virgin, the daughter of Judah, as in a win
• Mal 4:6 — And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.
• Ps 2:5 — Then shall he speak unto them in his wrath, and vex them in his sore displeasure.
• Ps 2:9 — Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter’s vessel.
• Ps 2:9 — Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter’s vessel.
• Ps 9:5 — Thou hast rebuked the heathen, thou hast destroyed the wicked, thou hast put out their name for ever and ever.
• Ps 9:19 — Arise, O LORD; let not man prevail: let the heathen be judged in thy sight.
• Ps 21:8 — Thine hand shall find out all thine enemies: thy right hand shall find out those that hate thee.
• Ps 45:3 — Gird thy sword upon thy thigh, O most mighty, with thy glory and thy majesty.
• Ps 60:12 — Through God we shall do valiantly: for he it is that shall tread down our enemies.
• Rev 1:8 — I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty.
• Rev 1:16 — And he had in his right hand seven stars: and out of his mouth went a sharp twoedged sword: and his countenance was as the sun shineth in his strength.
• Rev 1:16 — And he had in his right hand seven stars: and out of his mouth went a sharp twoedged sword: and his countenance was as the sun shineth in his strength.
• Rev 2:12 — And to the angel of the church in Pergamos write; These things saith he which hath the sharp sword with two edges;
• Rev 2:12 — And to the angel of the church in Pergamos write; These things saith he which hath the sharp sword with two edges;
• Rev 2:16 — Repent; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will fight against them with the sword of my mouth.
• Rev 2:16 — Repent; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will fight against them with the sword of my mouth.
• Rev 2:27 — And he shall rule them with a rod of iron; as the vessels of a potter shall they be broken to shivers: even as I received of my Father.
• Rev 2:27 — And he shall rule them with a rod of iron; as the vessels of a potter shall they be broken to shivers: even as I received of my Father.
• Rev 4:8 — And the four beasts had each of them six wings about him; and they were full of eyes within: and they rest not day and night, saying, Holy, holy, holy, LORD God Almighty, which was, and is, and is to
• Rev 11:18 — And the nations were angry, and thy wrath is come, and the time of the dead, that they should be judged, and that thou shouldest give reward unto thy servants the prophets, and to the saints, and them
• Rev 12:5 — And she brought forth a man child, who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron: and her child was caught up unto God, and to his throne.
• Rev 12:5 — And she brought forth a man child, who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron: and her child was caught up unto God, and to his throne.
• Rev 14:17 — And another angel came out of the temple which is in heaven, he also having a sharp sickle.
• Rev 14:19 — And the angel thrust in his sickle into the earth, and gathered the vine of the earth, and cast it into the great winepress of the wrath of God.
• Rev 15:1 — And I saw another sign in heaven, great and marvellous, seven angels having the seven last plagues; for in them is filled up the wrath of God.
• Rev 17:8 — The beast that thou sawest was, and is not; and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit, and go into perdition: and they that dwell on the earth shall wonder, whose names were not written in the book o
• Rev 19:21 — And the remnant were slain with the sword of him that sat upon the horse, which sword proceeded out of his mouth: and all the fowls were filled with their flesh.
• Zech 9:13 — When I have bent Judah for me, filled the bow with Ephraim, and raised up thy sons, O Zion, against thy sons, O Greece, and made thee as the sword of a mighty man.