Why have I seen them dismayed and turned away back? and their mighty ones are beaten down, and have fled quickly, and look not back: for fear was round about, says the LORD.
And it came to pass, when they had brought them forth away, that he said, Escape for your life; look not behind you, neither stay in all the plain; escape to the mountain, so that you will not be consumed.
And they shall be afraid: pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them; they shall be in pain as a woman in birth labor: they shall be amazed one at another; their faces shall be as flames.
In that day shall Egypt be like women: and it shall be afraid and fear because of the shaking of the hand of the LORD of hosts, which he shakes over it.
Therefore is the anger of the LORD kindled against his people, and he has stretched out his hand against them, and has stricken them: and the hills trembled, and their carcasses were torn in the midst of the streets. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
For I heard the defaming of many, fear on every side. Report, say they, and we will report it. All my companions watched for my downfall, saying, Perhaps he will be enticed, and we shall prevail against him, and we shall take our revenge on him.
Also her hired men are in the midst of her like fatted bullocks; for they also are turned back, and have fled away together: they did not stand, because the day of their calamity had come upon them, and the time of their visitation.
Their tents and their flocks shall they take away: they shall take for themselves their curtains, and all their vessels, and their camels; and they shall cry to them, Fear is on every side.
Behold, I will bring terror upon you, says the Lord GOD of hosts, from all those that are around you; and you shall be driven out every man straight ahead; and none shall gather up him that wanders.
Yea, I will make many people amazed at you, and their kings shall be horribly afraid for you, when I shall brandish my sword before them; and they shall tremble every moment, every man for his own life, in the day of your fall.
You shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of the princes of the earth, of rams, of lambs, and of goats, of bullocks, all of them fatlings of Bashan.