Then it came about that night that the angel of Adonai went out and struck down 185,000 men in the Assyrian camp. When the men arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.
Job 27:20 - Tree of Life Version Terrors overtake him like a flood; a storm sweeps him away at night. 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. |
Then it came about that night that the angel of Adonai went out and struck down 185,000 men in the Assyrian camp. When the men arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.
Terrifying sounds are in his ears; in a time of peace, marauders attack him.
While he is filling his belly, He will send the anger of His wrath against him, and rain it down it on him, on his flesh.
Like a dream, he flies away and they cannot find him; like a vision of the night, he is chased away.
How often are they like straw before the wind; like chaff swept away by a storm?
They were snatched away before their time, their foundations washed away by a river.
“He is foam on the surface of water; their portion of the land is cursed; no one turns toward their vineyards.
They die in a moment, at midnight, people are shaken and they pass away. The mighty are removed without a hand.
I called upon Adonai, worthy of praise, and I was rescued from my enemies.
My God, my soul is downcast within me! Therefore I remember You from the land of Jordan and from the peaks of Hermon, from Mount Mitzar.
You sweep them away in their sleep. In the morning they are like sprouting grass—
So it came about at midnight that Adonai struck down all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh sitting on his throne to the firstborn of the captive who was in the dungeon, and all the firstborn cattle.
saying: “From my distress I cried to Adonai and He answered me. From the belly of Sheol I cried for help and you heard my voice.