1 Samuel 28:20

Terror and dread falls on them. By the greatness of your arm they are as still as a stone, until your people pass over, Yahweh, until the people you have purchased pass over.

But these two things will come to you in a moment in one day, the loss of children and widowhood. They will come on you in their full measure, in the multitude of your sorceries, and the great abundance of your enchantments.

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

“ ‘ “Tarshish was your merchant by reason of the multitude of all kinds of riches. They traded for your wares with silver, iron, tin, and lead.

But Jonah rose up to flee to Tarshish from the presence of Yahweh. He went down to Joppa, and found a ship going to Tarshish; so he paid its fare, and went down into it, to go with them to Tarshish from the presence of Yahweh.

Yahweh had said to Moses, “Tell the children of Israel, ‘You are a stiff-necked people. If I were to go up among you for one moment, I would consume you. Therefore now take off your jewelry from you, that I may know what to do to you.’ ”

When they went into the Tent of Meeting, and when they came near to the altar, they washed, as Yahweh commanded Moses.

I also will do this to you: I will appoint terror over you, even consumption and fever, that shall consume the eyes, and make the soul to pine away. You will sow your seed in vain, for your enemies will eat it.

“Separate yourselves from among this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment!”

Yahweh will strike you with madness, with blindness, and with astonishment of heart.

When all the kings of the Amorites, who were beyond the Jordan westward, and all the kings of the Canaanites, who were by the sea, heard how Yahweh had dried up the waters of the Jordan from before the children of Israel until we had crossed over, their heart melted, and there was no more spirit in them, because of the children of Israel.

He offered the tribute to Eglon king of Moab. Now Eglon was a very fat man.

God do so to the enemies of David, and more also, if I leave of all that belongs to him by the morning light so much as one who urinates on a wall.”

For indeed, as Yahweh, the God of Israel, lives, who has withheld me from harming you, unless you had hurried and come to meet me, surely there wouldn’t have been left to Nabal by the morning light so much as one who urinates on a wall.”

In the morning, when the wine had gone out of Nabal, his wife told him these things, and his heart died within him, and he became as a stone.

When Saul saw the army of the Philistines, he was afraid, and his heart trembled greatly.

For the king had a fleet of Tarshish at sea with Hiram’s fleet. Once every three years the fleet of Tarshish came, bringing gold, silver, ivory, apes, and peacocks.

At noon, Elijah mocked them, and said, “Cry aloud; for he is a god. Either he is deep in thought, or he has gone somewhere, or he is on a journey, or perhaps he sleeps and must be awakened.”

This is the word that Yahweh has spoken concerning him: ‘The virgin daughter of Zion has despised you and ridiculed you. The daughter of Jerusalem has shaken her head at you.

Then Harbonah, one of the eunuchs who were with the king said, “Behold, the gallows fifty cubits high, which Haman has made for Mordecai, who spoke good for the king, is standing at Haman’s house.” The king said, “Hang him on it!”

Is my strength the strength of stones? Or is my flesh of bronze?

Isn’t it that I have no help in me, That wisdom is driven quite from me?

How forcible are words of uprightness! But your reproof, what does it reprove?

“No doubt, but you are the people, and wisdom will die with you.

He pours contempt on princes, and loosens the belt of the strong.

A sound of terrors is in his ears. In prosperity the destroyer will come on him.

Terrors will make him afraid on every side, and will chase him at his heels.

that the triumphing of the wicked is short, the joy of the godless but for a moment?

He draws it out, and it comes out of his body. Yes, the glittering point comes out of his liver. Terrors are on him.

Their houses are safe from fear, neither is the rod of God upon them.

“They are foam on the surface of the waters. Their portion is cursed in the earth. They don’t turn into the way of the vineyards.

They are exalted; yet a little while, and they are gone. Yes, they are brought low, they are taken out of the way as all others, and are cut off as the tops of the ears of grain.

“How have you helped him who is without power! How have you saved the arm that has no strength!

In a moment they die, even at midnight. The people are shaken and pass away. The mighty are taken away without a hand.

the God who arms me with strength, and makes my way perfect?

Let them be desolate by reason of their shame that tell me, “Aha! Aha!”

Before your pots can feel the heat of the thorns, he will sweep away the green and the burning alike.

But God will shoot at them. They will be suddenly struck down with an arrow.

Don’t reject me in my old age. Don’t forsake me when my strength fails.

How they are suddenly destroyed! They are completely swept away with terrors.

Don’t be afraid of sudden fear, neither of the desolation of the wicked, when it comes;

What the wicked fear, will overtake them, but the desire of the righteous will be granted.

The wicked flee when no one pursues; but the righteous are as bold as a lion.

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.

The spirit of Egypt will fail within it. I will destroy its counsel. They will seek the idols, the charmers, those who have familiar spirits, and the wizards.

Pass over to Tarshish! Wail, you inhabitants of the coast!

Pass through your land like the Nile, daughter of Tarshish. There is no restraint any more.

Howl, you ships of Tarshish, for your stronghold is laid waste!

therefore this iniquity shall be to you like a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking comes suddenly in an instant.

Who did he take counsel with, and who instructed him, and taught him in the path of justice, and taught him knowledge, and showed him the way of understanding?

Therefore disaster will come on you. You won’t know when it dawns. Mischief will fall on you. You won’t be able to put it away. Desolation will come on you suddenly, which you don’t understand.

For Yahweh says, ‘Behold, I will 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.

All majesty has departed from the daughter of Zion. Her princes have become like deer that find no pasture. They have gone without strength before the pursuer.

Then the king’s face was changed in him, and his thoughts troubled him; and the joints of his thighs were loosened, and his knees struck one against another.

I will overthrow the throne of kingdoms. I will destroy the strength of the kingdoms of the nations. I will overthrow the chariots, and those who ride in them. The horses and their riders will come down, everyone by the sword of his brother.

The devil, leading him up on a high mountain, showed him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time.

Now Herod the tetrarch heard of all that was done by him; and he was very perplexed, because it was said by some that John had risen from the dead,

“But God said to him, ‘You foolish one, tonight your soul is required of you. The things which you have prepared—whose will they be?’

him, being delivered up by the determined counsel and foreknowledge of God, you have taken by the hand of lawless men, crucified and killed;

But rise up and enter into the city, then you will be told what you must do.”

For while we were yet weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.

in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we will be changed.

Knowing therefore the fear of the Lord, we persuade men, but we are revealed to God, and I hope that we are revealed also in your consciences.

For when they are saying, “Peace and safety,” then sudden destruction will come on them, like birth pains on a pregnant woman. Then they will in no way escape.

and might deliver all of them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.

standing far away for the fear of her torment, saying, ‘Woe, woe, the great city, Babylon, the strong city! For your judgment has come in one hour.’