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20 Terrors overtake them like a flood;
    in the night a whirlwind carries them off.(A)

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21 Terrifying sounds are in their ears;
    in prosperity the destroyer will come upon them.(A)

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11 Terrors frighten them on every side
    and chase them at their heels.(A)

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You cast me into the deep,
    into the heart of the seas,
    and the flood surrounded me;
all your waves and your billows
    passed over me.(A)

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30 That very night Belshazzar, the Chaldean king, was killed.(A)

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14 rescue me
    from sinking in the mire;
let me be delivered from my enemies
    and from the deep waters.(A)
15 Do not let the flood sweep over me
    or the deep swallow me up
    or the Pit close its mouth over me.(B)

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Deep calls to deep
    at the thunder of your torrents;
all your waves and your billows
    have gone over me.(A)

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The cords of death encompassed me;
    the torrents of perdition assailed me;(A)

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20 In a moment they die;
    at midnight the people are shaken and pass away,
    and the mighty are taken away by no human hand.(A)

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16 They were snatched away before their time;
    their foundation was washed away by a flood.(A)

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18 How often are they like straw before the wind
    and like chaff that the storm carries away?(A)

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23 To fill their belly to the full,
    God[a] will send his fierce anger into them
    and rain it upon them as their food.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 20.23 Heb he

They will fly away like a dream and not be found;
    they will be chased away like a vision of the night.(A)

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Sennacherib’s Defeat and Death

35 That very night the angel of the Lord set out and struck down one hundred eighty-five thousand in the camp of the Assyrians; when morning dawned, they were all dead bodies.(A)

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The Tenth Plague: Death of the Firstborn

29 At midnight the Lord struck down all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sat on his throne to the firstborn of the prisoner who was in the dungeon and all the firstborn of the livestock.(A)

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