YHWH will cause your enemies who rise up against you to be struck before you. They will come out against you one way, and will flee before you seven ways.
There they were in great fear, where no fear was, for God has scattered the bones of him who encamps against you. You have put them to shame, because God has rejected them.
Although we suffered and were mistreated in Philippi, as y’all know, we found confidence in our God to tell y’all the gospel of God amid deep opposition.
Now when they observed the fearless confidence of Peter and John, and it grasped them that they were uneducated, ordinary humans, they marveled, and they recognized that they had been with Jesus.
So they stayed there a considerable time, speaking boldly in the Lord, who testified to the message of his grace by granting that signs and wonders be done by their hands.
For YHWH says, ‘I am about to make you a terror to yourself and to all your friends. They will fall by the sword of their enemies, and your eyes will see it. I will give all Judah into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he will carry them captive to Babylon, and will kill them with the sword.
“‘As for those of y’all who are left, I will bring weakness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies so that the sound of a driven leaf will put them to flight. They will flee as though fleeing from the sword, and will fall though no one pursues.
YHWH will cause you to be struck before your enemies. You will go out one way against them, and will flee seven ways before them. You will be tossed back and forth among all the kingdoms of the earth.
They followed them to the Jordan. They saw that the whole way was full of garments and equipment which the Syrians had cast away in their haste. The messengers returned and told the king.
David’s house was told, “Syria is allied with Ephraim.” His heart trembled, and the heart of his people, as the trees of the forest tremble with the wind.
All these servants of yours will come down to me, and bow down themselves to me, saying, “Get out, with all the people who follow you;” and after that I will go out.’” He went out from Pharaoh in hot anger.
I will set my face against y’all, and y’all will be struck down before y’all’s enemies. Those who hate y’all will rule over y’all, and y’all will flee when no one is pursuing y’all.
One thousand will flee at the threat of one. At the threat of five, y’all will flee until y’all are left like a beacon on the top of a mountain, and like a banner on a hill.
Oh that the salvation of Israel would come out of Zion! When God brings back ʜɪꜱ people from captivity, then Jacob will rejoice, and Israel will be glad.