Isaiah 19:16
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16 On that day the Egyptians will be like women and tremble with fear before the hand that the Lord of hosts raises against them.(A)
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Nahum 3:13
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13 Look at your troops:
they are women in your midst.
The gates of your land
are wide open to your foes;
fire has devoured the bars of your gates.(A)
Jeremiah 51:30
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30 The warriors of Babylon have given up fighting;
they remain in their strongholds;
their strength has failed;
they have become women;
her buildings are set on fire;
her bars are broken.(A)
Jeremiah 50:37
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37 A sword against her[a] horses and against her[b] chariots
and against all the foreign troops in her midst,
so that they may become women!
A sword against her treasures,
that they may be plundered!(A)
Jeremiah 30:5-7
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5 Thus says the Lord:
We have heard a cry of panic,
of terror, and no peace.(A)
6 Ask now and see:
Can a man bear a child?
Why then do I see every man
with his hands on his loins like a woman in labor?
Why has every face turned pale?(B)
7 Alas! that day is so great
there is none like it;
it is a time of distress for Jacob,
yet he shall be rescued from it.(C)
Isaiah 11:15
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15 And the Lord will dry up[a]
the tongue of the sea of Egypt
and will wave his hand over the River
with his scorching wind
and will split it into seven channels
and make a way to cross on foot;(A)
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- 11.15 Gk Syr: Heb destroy
Zechariah 2:9
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9 For I am going to raise[a] my hand against them, and they shall become plunder for their own slaves. Then you will know that the Lord of hosts has sent me.(A)
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- 2.9 Or wave
Isaiah 10:32
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32 This very day he will halt at Nob;
he will shake his fist
at the mount of daughter Zion,
the hill of Jerusalem.(A)
Hebrews 10:31
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31 It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
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Isaiah 30:30-32
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30 And the Lord will cause his majestic voice to be heard and the descending blow of his arm to be seen, in furious anger and a flame of devouring fire, with a cloudburst and tempest and hailstones.(A) 31 The Assyrian will be terror-stricken at the voice of the Lord when he strikes with his rod.(B) 32 And every stroke of the staff of punishment[a] that the Lord lays upon him will be to the sound of timbrels and lyres with dancing;[b] with brandished arm he will fight with him.(C)
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Isaiah 30:17
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17 A thousand shall flee at the threat of one;
at the threat of five you shall flee
until you are left
like a flagstaff on the top of a mountain,
like a signal on a hill.(A)
Psalm 48:6
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6 trembling took hold of them there,
pains as of a woman in labor,
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