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but if you resist and rebel, you will be devoured by the sword.” For the mouth of the Lord has spoken.
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He will judge between the nations and will settle disputes for many peoples. They will beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation will not take up sword against nation, nor will they train for war anymore.
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Your men will fall by the sword, your warriors in battle.
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Whoever is captured will be thrust through; all who are caught will fall by the sword.
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But you are cast out of your tomb like a rejected branch; you are covered with the slain, with those pierced by the sword, those who descend to the stones of the pit. Like a corpse trampled underfoot,
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They flee from the sword, from the drawn sword, from the bent bow and from the heat of battle.
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you town so full of commotion, you city of tumult and revelry? Your slain were not killed by the sword, nor did they die in battle.
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Deliverance of Israel
In that day, the Lord will punish with his sword— his fierce, great and powerful sword— Leviathan the gliding serpent, Leviathan the coiling serpent; he will slay the monster of the sea.
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“Assyria will fall by no human sword; a sword, not of mortals, will devour them. They will flee before the sword and their young men will be put to forced labor.
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My sword has drunk its fill in the heavens; see, it descends in judgment on Edom, the people I have totally destroyed.
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The sword of the Lord is bathed in blood, it is covered with fat— the blood of lambs and goats, fat from the kidneys of rams. For the Lord has a sacrifice in Bozrah and a great slaughter in the land of Edom.
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Listen! When he hears a certain report, I will make him want to return to his own country, and there I will have him cut down with the sword.’”
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One day, while he was worshiping in the temple of his god Nisrok, his sons Adrammelek and Sharezer killed him with the sword, and they escaped to the land of Ararat. And Esarhaddon his son succeeded him as king.
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“Who has stirred up one from the east, calling him in righteousness to his service? He hands nations over to him and subdues kings before him. He turns them to dust with his sword, to windblown chaff with his bow.
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He made my mouth like a sharpened sword, in the shadow of his hand he hid me; he made me into a polished arrow and concealed me in his quiver.
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These double calamities have come upon you— who can comfort you?— ruin and destruction, famine and sword— who can console you?
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I will destine you for the sword, and all of you will fall in the slaughter; for I called but you did not answer, I spoke but you did not listen. You did evil in my sight and chose what displeases me.”
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For with fire and with his sword the Lord will execute judgment on all people, and many will be those slain by the Lord.
