Therefore the Lord brought upon them the commanders of the army of the king of Assyria, who took Manasseh with hooks and bound him with fetters of bronze and brought him to Babylon.
Job 5:5 - Revised Standard Version His harvest the hungry eat, and he takes it even out of thorns; and the thirsty pant after his wealth. Dugang nga mga bersyonKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, And taketh it even out of the thorns, And the robber swalloweth up their substance. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition His harvest the hungry eat and take it even [when it grows] among the thorns; the snare opens for [his] wealth. American Standard Version (1901) Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, And taketh it even out of the thorns; And the snare gapeth for their substance. Common English Bible The hungry devour their crops; it’s taken even from the thorns, and the thirsty pant after their yield. Catholic Public Domain Version Their harvest, the starving will eat. The armed man will rob him, and the thirsty will drink his resources. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version His harvest the hungry shall eat, and the armed man shall take him by violence; and the thirsty shall drink up his riches. |
Therefore the Lord brought upon them the commanders of the army of the king of Assyria, who took Manasseh with hooks and bound him with fetters of bronze and brought him to Babylon.
and the Sabeans fell upon them and took them, and slew the servants with the edge of the sword; and I alone have escaped to tell you.”
While he was yet speaking, there came another, and said, “The Chaldeans formed three companies, and made a raid upon the camels and took them, and slew the servants with the edge of the sword; and I alone have escaped to tell you.”
The tents of robbers are at peace, and those who provoke God are secure, who bring their god in their hand.
And the Lord said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant Job, that there is none like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man, who fears God and turns away from evil? He still holds fast his integrity, although you moved me against him, to destroy him without cause.”
He swallows down riches and vomits them up again; God casts them out of his belly.
In the fulness of his sufficiency he will be in straits; all the force of misery will come upon him.
Therefore snares are round about you, and sudden terror overwhelms you;
May the creditor seize all that he has; may strangers plunder the fruits of his toil!
The Lord has sworn by his right hand and by his mighty arm: “I will not again give your grain to be food for your enemies, and foreigners shall not drink your wine for which you have labored;
“Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon has devoured me, he has crushed me; he has made me an empty vessel, he has swallowed me like a monster; he has filled his belly with my delicacies, he has rinsed me out.
And I will punish Bel in Babylon, and take out of his mouth what he has swallowed. The nations shall no longer flow to him; the wall of Babylon has fallen.
All your enemies rail against you; they hiss, they gnash their teeth, they cry: “We have destroyed her! Ah, this is the day we longed for; now we have it; we see it!”
The Lord has become like an enemy, he has destroyed Israel; he has destroyed all its palaces, laid in ruins its strongholds; and he has multiplied in the daughter of Judah mourning and lamentation.
For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind. The standing grain has no heads, it shall yield no meal; if it were to yield, aliens would devour it.
A nation which you have not known shall eat up the fruit of your ground and of all your labors; and you shall be only oppressed and crushed continually;
and shall eat the offspring of your cattle and the fruit of your ground, until you are destroyed; who also shall not leave you grain, wine, or oil, the increase of your cattle or the young of your flock, until they have caused you to perish.
Now the angel of the Lord came and sat under the oak at Ophrah, which belonged to Joash the Abiezrite, as his son Gideon was beating out wheat in the wine press, to hide it from the Midianites.