And that night the angel of the Lord went forth, and slew a hundred and eighty-five thousand in the camp of the Assyrians; and when men arose early in the morning, behold, these were all dead bodies.
Job 27:20 - Revised Standard Version Terrors overtake him like a flood; in the night a whirlwind carries him off. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Terrors take hold on him as waters, A tempest stealeth him away in the night. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Terrors overtake him like a [suddenly loosened] flood; a windstorm steals him away in the night. American Standard Version (1901) Terrors overtake him like waters; A tempest stealeth him away in the night. Common English Bible Terrors overtake them like waters; a tempest snatches them by night; Catholic Public Domain Version Destitution will surround him like water; a storm will overwhelm him in the night. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Poverty like water shall take hold on him: a tempest shall oppress him in the night. |
And that night the angel of the Lord went forth, and slew a hundred and eighty-five thousand in the camp of the Assyrians; and when men arose early in the morning, behold, these were all dead bodies.
Terrifying sounds are in his ears; in prosperity the destroyer will come upon him.
To fill his belly to the full God will send his fierce anger into him, and rain it upon him as his food.
He will fly away like a dream, and not be found; he will be chased away like a vision of the night.
That they are like straw before the wind, and like chaff that the storm carries away?
They were snatched away before their time; their foundation was washed away.
“You say, ‘They are swiftly carried away upon the face of the waters; their portion is cursed in the land; no treader turns toward their vineyards.
In a moment they die; at midnight the people are shaken and pass away, and the mighty are taken away by no human hand.
The cords of death encompassed me, the torrents of perdition assailed me;
Deep calls to deep at the thunder of thy cataracts; all thy waves and thy billows have gone over me.
Thou dost sweep men away; they are like a dream, like grass which is renewed in the morning:
At midnight the Lord smote all the first-born in the land of Egypt, from the first-born of Pharaoh who sat on his throne to the first-born of the captive who was in the dungeon, and all the first-born of the cattle.
For thou didst cast me into the deep, into the heart of the seas, and the flood was round about me; all thy waves and thy billows passed over me.