Psalm 76:5
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5 The courageous were stripped of their spoil;
they sank into sleep;
none of the troops
was able to lift a hand.(A)
Isaiah 46:12
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12 Listen to me, you stubborn of heart,
you who are far from deliverance:(A)
Nahum 3:18
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18 Your shepherds are asleep,
O king of Assyria;
your nobles slumber.
Your people are scattered on the mountains
with no one to gather them.(A)
Jeremiah 51:39
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39 When they are inflamed, I will set out their drink
and make them drunk, until they become merry
and then sleep a perpetual sleep
and never wake, says the Lord.(A)
Psalm 13:3
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3 Consider and answer me, O Lord my God!
Give light to my eyes, or I will sleep the sleep of death,(A)
Luke 1:51-52
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51 He has shown strength with his arm;
he has scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts.(A)
52 He has brought down the powerful from their thrones
and lifted up the lowly;(B)
Daniel 4:37
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37 Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and extol and honor the King of heaven,
for all his works are truth,
and his ways are justice;
he is able to bring low
those who walk in pride.(A)
Ezekiel 30:21-25
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21 Mortal, I have broken the arm of Pharaoh king of Egypt; it has not been bound up for healing or wrapped with a bandage, so that it may become strong to wield the sword.(A) 22 Therefore thus says the Lord God: I am against Pharaoh king of Egypt and will break his arms, both the strong arm and the one that was broken, and I will make the sword fall from his hand.(B) 23 I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations and disperse them throughout the lands.(C) 24 I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon and put my sword in his hand, but I will break the arms of Pharaoh, and he will groan before him with the groans of one mortally wounded.(D) 25 I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, but the arms of Pharaoh shall fall. And they shall know that I am the Lord when I put my sword into the hand of the king of Babylon. He shall stretch it out against the land of Egypt,(E)
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Isaiah 37:36
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Sennacherib’s Defeat and Death
36 Then 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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Isaiah 31:8
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8 “Then the Assyrian shall fall by a sword not of mortals,
and a sword not of humans shall devour him;
he shall flee from the sword,
and his young men shall be put to forced labor.(A)
Job 40:10-12
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10 “Deck yourself with majesty and dignity;
clothe yourself with glory and splendor.(A)
11 Pour out the overflowings of your anger,
and look on all who are proud and humble them.(B)
12 Look on all who are proud and bring them low;
tread down the wicked where they stand.(C)
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