Isaiah 21:4

When you pass through the waters, I will be with you, and through the rivers, they will not overflow you. When you walk through the fire, you will not be burned, and flame will not scorch you.

When I lie down, I say, ‘When will I arise, and the night be gone?’ I toss and turn until the dawning of the day.

Yes, moreover, wine is treacherous. An arrogant man who doesn’t stay at home, who enlarges his desire as Sheol, and he is like death, and can’t be satisfied, but gathers to himself all nations, and heaps to himself all peoples.

Peace I leave with you. My peace I give to you; not as the world gives, I give to you. Don’t let your heart be troubled, neither let it be fearful.

So that with good courage we say, “The Lord is my helper. I will not fear. What can man do to me?”

so that the sights that you see with your eyes will drive you mad.

in the third year of his reign, he made a feast for all his princes and his servants; the power of Persia and Media, the nobles and princes of the provinces, being before him.

The king took his ring from his hand, and gave it to Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, the Jews’ enemy.

My eye wastes away because of grief. It grows old because of all my adversaries.

Behold, and answer me, Yahweh, my God. Give light to my eyes, lest I sleep in death;

Therefore we won’t be afraid, though the earth changes, though the mountains are shaken into the heart of the seas;

For a day in your courts is better than a thousand. I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.

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

Behold, they are like stubble. The fire will burn them. They won’t deliver themselves from the power of the flame. It won’t be a coal to warm at or a fire to sit by.

“As I live,” says the King, whose name is Yahweh of Armies, “surely like Tabor among the mountains, and like Carmel by the sea, so he will come.

One runner will run to meet another, and one messenger to meet another, to show the king of Babylon that his city is taken on every quarter.

Noah went into the ship with his sons, his wife, and his sons’ wives, because of the floodwaters.

While the meat was still between their teeth, before it was chewed, Yahweh’s anger burned against the people, and Yahweh struck the people with a very great plague.

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

Take heed, don’t regard iniquity; for you have chosen this rather than affliction.

He will not be afraid of evil news. His heart is steadfast, trusting in Yahweh.

My flesh trembles for fear of you. I am afraid of your judgments.

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

Don’t boast about tomorrow; for you don’t know what a day may bring.

“You shall tell them, ‘Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel says: “Drink, and be drunk, vomit, fall, and rise no more, because of the sword which I will send among you.” ’

Moab is laid waste, and they have gone up into his cities, and his chosen young men have gone down to the slaughter,” says the King, whose name is Yahweh of Armies.

“Make him drunken; for he magnified himself against Yahweh. Moab will wallow in his vomit, and he also will be in derision.

The joy of our heart has ceased. Our dance is turned into mourning.

While the word was in the king’s mouth, a voice came from the sky, saying, “O king Nebuchadnezzar, to you it is spoken: ‘The kingdom has departed from you.

In the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon Daniel had a dream and visions of his head on his bed. Then he wrote the dream and told the sum of the matters.

For Amos says, ‘Jeroboam will die by the sword, and Israel shall surely be led away captive out of his land.’ ”

The best of them is like a brier. The most upright is worse than a thorn hedge. The day of your watchmen, even your visitation, has come; now is the time of their confusion.

“For, behold, the day comes, it burns as a furnace; and all the proud, and all who work wickedness, will be stubble; and the day that comes will burn them up,” says Yahweh of Armies, “that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.

“So be careful, or your hearts will be loaded down with carousing, drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that day will come on you suddenly.

Make a ship of gopher wood. You shall make rooms in the ship, and shall seal it inside and outside with pitch.

Solomon awoke; and behold, it was a dream. Then he came to Jerusalem, and stood before the ark of Yahweh’s covenant, and offered up burnt offerings, offered peace offerings, and made a feast for all his servants.

On that day, King Ahasuerus gave the house of Haman, the Jews’ enemy, to Esther the queen. Mordecai came before the king; for Esther had told what he was to her.

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

The wicked shall be turned back to Sheol, even all the nations that forget God.

For you will not leave my soul in Sheol, neither will you allow your holy one to see corruption.

They are appointed as a flock for Sheol. Death shall be their shepherd. The upright shall have dominion over them in the morning. Their beauty shall decay in Sheol, far from their mansion.

Let death come suddenly on them. Let them go down alive into Sheol. For wickedness is among them, in their dwelling.

I am weary with my crying. My throat is dry. My eyes fail looking for my God.

Valiant men lie plundered, they have slept their last sleep. None of the men of war can lift their hands.

My eyes are dim from grief. I have called on you daily, Yahweh. I have spread out my hands to you.

You shall not be afraid of the terror by night, nor of the arrow that flies by day,

They surrounded me like bees. They are quenched like the burning thorns. In Yahweh’s name I cut them off.

Let’s swallow them up alive like Sheol, and whole, like those who go down into the pit.

Fraudulent food is sweet to a man, but afterwards his mouth is filled with gravel.

Sheol and Abaddon are never satisfied; and a man’s eyes are never satisfied.

He who is often rebuked and stiffens his neck will be destroyed suddenly, with no remedy.

They all handle the sword, and are expert in war. Every man has his sword on his thigh, because of fear in the night.

Therefore Sheol has enlarged its desire, and opened its mouth without measure; and their glory, their multitude, their pomp, and he who rejoices among them, descend into it.

For wickedness burns like a fire. It devours the briers and thorns; yes, it kindles in the thickets of the forest, and they roll upward in a column of smoke.

The light of Israel will be for a fire, and his Holy One for a flame; and it will burn and devour his thorns and his briers in one day.

Sheol from beneath has moved for you to meet you at your coming. It stirs up the departed spirits for you, even all the rulers of the earth. It has raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations.

They prepare the table. They set the watch. They eat. They drink. Rise up, you princes, oil the shield!

In that day, the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, called to weeping, to mourning, to baldness, and to dressing in sackcloth;

Yahweh of Armies revealed himself in my ears, “Surely this iniquity will not be forgiven you until you die,” says the Lord, Yahweh of Armies.

who frustrates the signs of the liars, and makes diviners mad; who turns wise men backward, and makes their knowledge foolish;

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.

“A sword is on the Chaldeans,” says Yahweh, “and on the inhabitants of Babylon, on her princes, and on her wise men.

He stretched out the form of a hand, and took me by a lock of my head; and the Spirit lifted me up between earth and the sky, and brought me in the visions of God to Jerusalem, to the door of the gate of the inner court that looks toward the north; where there was the seat of the image of jealousy, which provokes to jealousy.

Then all the king’s wise men came in; but they could not read the writing, and couldn’t make known to the king the interpretation.

Now the wise men, the enchanters, have been brought in before me, that they should read this writing, and make known to me its interpretation; but they could not show the interpretation of the thing.

I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will make you wear sackcloth on all your bodies, and baldness on every head. I will make it like the mourning for an only son, and its end like a bitter day.

Yahweh is a jealous God and avenges. Yahweh avenges and is full of wrath. Yahweh takes vengeance on his adversaries, and he maintains wrath against his enemies.

You also will be drunken. You will be hidden. You also will seek a stronghold because of the enemy.

Your shepherds slumber, king of Assyria. Your nobles lie down. Your people are scattered on the mountains, and there is no one to gather them.

Jesus said to them, “The children of this age marry, and are given in marriage.

I have told you these things, that in me you may have peace. In the world you have trouble; but cheer up! I have overcome the world.”

wiping out the handwriting in ordinances which was against us. He has taken it out of the way, nailing it to the cross.

Then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord will kill with the breath of his mouth, and destroy by the manifestation of his coming;

In those days people will seek death, and will in no way find it. They will desire to die, and death will flee from them.

Jacob heard Laban’s sons’ words, saying, “Jacob has taken away all that was our father’s. He has obtained all this wealth from that which was our father’s.”

In the morning you will say, “I wish it were evening!” and at evening you will say, “I wish it were morning!” for the fear of your heart which you will fear, and for the sights which your eyes will see.

Haman also said, “Yes, Esther the queen let no man come in with the king to the banquet that she had prepared but myself; and tomorrow I am also invited by her together with the king.

For we are sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain, and to perish. But if we had been sold for male and female slaves, I would have held my peace, although the adversary could not have compensated for the king’s loss.”

Esther said, “An adversary and an enemy, even this wicked Haman!” Then Haman was afraid before the king and the queen.

When he is about to fill his belly, God will cast the fierceness of his wrath on him. It will rain on him while he is eating.

Therefore my harp has turned to mourning, and my pipe into the voice of those who weep.

Pour out the fury of your anger. Look at everyone who is proud, and bring him low.

On the wicked he will rain blazing coals; fire, sulfur, and scorching wind shall be the portion of their cup.

My heart throbs. My strength fails me. As for the light of my eyes, it has also left me.

Fearfulness and trembling have come on me. Horror has overwhelmed me.

He threw on them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, indignation, and trouble, and a band of angels of evil.

Praise him with tambourine and dancing! Praise him with stringed instruments and flute!

The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth.

When they are heated, I will make their feast, and I will make them drunk, that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake up,” says Yahweh.

I will make her princes, her wise men, her governors, her deputies, and her mighty men drunk. They will sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake up,” says the King, whose name is Yahweh of Armies.

Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand.

In the same hour, the fingers of a man’s hand came out and wrote near the lamp stand on the plaster of the wall of the king’s palace. The king saw the part of the hand that wrote.

In that night Belshazzar the Chaldean King was slain.

Therefore they will now go captive with the first who go captive; and the feasting and lounging will end.

For entangled like thorns, and drunken as with their drink, they are consumed utterly like dry stubble.

They ate, they drank, they married, and they were given in marriage until the day that Noah entered into the ship, and the flood came and destroyed them all.

choosing rather to share ill treatment with God’s people than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a time,