בְּהִילוּ

Joseph said to his brothers, “I am Joseph! Does my father still live?” His brothers couldn’t answer him; for they were terrified at his presence.

Then the chiefs of Edom were dismayed. Trembling takes hold of the mighty men of Moab. All the inhabitants of Canaan have melted away.

The men of Israel turned, and the men of Benjamin were dismayed; for they saw that disaster had come on them.

The woman came to Saul, and saw that he was very troubled, and said to him, “Behold, your servant has listened to your voice, and I have put my life in my hand, and have listened to your words which you spoke to me.

When Saul’s son heard that Abner was dead in Hebron, his hands became feeble, and all the Israelites were troubled.

Azariah the chief priest, and all the priests, looked at him, and behold, he was leprous in his forehead, and they thrust him out quickly from there. Yes, he himself also hurried to go out, because Yahweh had struck him.

They called out with a loud voice in the Jews’ language to the people of Jerusalem who were on the wall, to frighten them, and to trouble them; that they might take the city.

But he sent ambassadors to him, saying, “What have I to do with you, you king of Judah? I come not against you today, but against the house with which I have war. God has commanded me to make haste. Beware that it is God who is with me, that he not destroy you.”

Then the people of the land weakened the hands of the people of Judah, and troubled them in building.

The maiden pleased him, and she obtained kindness from him. He quickly gave her cosmetics and her portions of food, and the seven choice maidens who were to be given her out of the king’s house. He moved her and her maidens to the best place in the women’s house.

While they were yet talking with him, the king’s eunuchs came, and hurried to bring Haman to the banquet that Esther had prepared.

So the couriers who rode on royal horses went out, hastened and pressed on by the king’s commandment. The decree was given out in the citadel of Susa.

But now it has come to you, and you faint. It touches you, and you are troubled.

When I remember, I am troubled. Horror takes hold of my flesh.

Therefore snares are around you. Sudden fear troubles you,

Therefore I am terrified at his presence. When I consider, I am afraid of him.

For God has made my heart faint. The Almighty has terrified me.

Then he will speak to them in his anger, and terrify them in his wrath:

Have mercy on me, Yahweh, for I am faint. Yahweh, heal me, for my bones are troubled.

My soul is also in great anguish. But you, Yahweh—how long?

May all my enemies be ashamed and dismayed. They shall turn back, they shall be disgraced suddenly.

You, Yahweh, when you favored me, made my mountain stand strong; but when you hid your face, I was troubled.

They saw it, then they were amazed. They were dismayed. They hurried away.

so pursue them with your tempest, and terrify them with your storm.

Let them be disappointed and dismayed forever. Yes, let them be confounded and perish;

For we are consumed in your anger. We are troubled in your wrath.

You hide your face; they are troubled. You take away their breath; they die and return to the dust.

An inheritance quickly gained at the beginning, won’t be blessed in the end.

A stingy man hurries after riches, and doesn’t know that poverty waits for him.

Don’t be rash with your mouth, and don’t let your heart be hasty to utter anything before God; for God is in heaven, and you on earth. Therefore let your words be few.

Don’t be hasty in your spirit to be angry, for anger rests in the bosom of fools.

Don’t be hasty to go out of his presence. Don’t persist in an evil thing, for he does whatever pleases him,

They will be dismayed. Pangs and sorrows will seize them. They will be in pain like a woman in labor. They will look in amazement one at another. Their faces will be faces of flame.

Therefore my thighs are filled with anguish. Pains have seized me, like the pains of a woman in labor. I am in so much pain that I can’t hear. I so am dismayed that I can’t see.

So the passages are seized. They have burned the reeds with fire. The men of war are frightened.”

The king will mourn, and the prince will be clothed with desolation. The hands of the people of the land will be troubled. I will do to them after their way, and according to their own judgments I will judge them. Then they will know that I am Yahweh.’ ”

Now the islands will tremble in the day of your fall. Yes, the islands that are in the sea will be dismayed at your departure.’

But news out of the east and out of the north will trouble him; and he will go out with great fury to destroy and utterly to sweep away many.

Neither their silver nor their gold will be able to deliver them in the day of Yahweh’s wrath, but the whole land will be devoured by the fire of his jealousy; for he will make an end, yes, a terrible end, of all those who dwell in the land.