And He caused the king of the Chaldeans to go up against them; and he killed their young men by the sword in the house of their sanctuary, and had no pity on the young man and the virgin, the old man and the very aged; He gave all into his hand.
For you said, No! For we will flee on a horse. Therefore you shall flee. Also, you say, We will ride on swift ones. On account of this, those who pursue you shall be swift ones.
And now so says Jehovah, the God of Hosts, the God of Israel: Why do you do this great evil thing against your souls, to cut off from you man and woman, child and suckling, out of Judah, not leaving to yourselves a remnant,
to provoke Me to wrath with the works of your hands, burning incense to other gods in the land of Egypt, there where you have gone to sojourn, that I might cut you off, and that you might be a curse and a reproach among all the nations of the earth?
See, O Jehovah, for distress is to me. My bowels ferment; my heart is turned over within me; for rebelling I have rebelled. On the outside the sword bereaves; in the house it is as death.
The sword is outside, and the plague, and the famine are inside. He who is in the field shall die with the sword. And he who is in the city, famine and plague shall devour him.
and I will bring a sword on you, executing the vengeance of the covenant, and you shall be gathered to your cities, and I shall send pestilence into your midst; and you shall be given into the hand of an enemy.
You shall eat, but not be satisfied, and your emptiness shall be in your midst; and you will draw back, but shall not keep safe; and that which you keep safe, I will give to the sword.
For, indeed, we coming into Macedonia, in our flesh no one had rest, but being troubled in every way, with fightings on the outside and fears on the inside.