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 36:20 - Revised Standard Version Do not long for the night, when peoples are cut off in their place. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Desire not the night, When people are cut off in their place. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Desire not the night, when peoples are cut off from their places; American Standard Version (1901) Desire not the night, When peoples are cut off in their place. Common English Bible Don’t wish for the night when people vanish from their place. Catholic Public Domain Version Do not prolong the night, even if people rise on their behalf. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Prolong not the night that people may come up for them. |
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.
Oh that thou wouldest hide me in Sheol, that thou wouldest conceal me until thy wrath be past, that thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me!
In a moment they die; at midnight the people are shaken and pass away, and the mighty are taken away by no human hand.
Thus, knowing their works, he overturns them in the night, and they are crushed.
Will your cry avail to keep you from distress, or all the force of your strength?
that it would please God to crush me, that he would let loose his hand and cut me off!
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.
The wicked is overthrown through his evil-doing, but the righteous finds refuge through his integrity.
If the clouds are full of rain, they empty themselves on the earth; and if a tree falls to the south or to the north, in the place where the tree falls, there it will lie.
But God said to him, ‘Fool! This night your soul is required of you; and the things you have prepared, whose will they be?’
to take the place in this ministry and apostleship from which Judas turned aside, to go to his own place.”