Terrors overtake him like a flood; in the night a whirlwind carries him off.
Dreadful sounds are in his ears; in prosperity the destroyer will come upon him.
Terrors frighten him on every side, and chase him at his heels.
For you cast me into the deep, into the heart of the seas, and the flood surrounded me; all your waves and your billows passed over me.
That very night Belshazzar the Chaldean king was killed.
Deliver me from sinking in the mire; let me be delivered from my enemies and from the deep waters. Let not the flood sweep over me, or the deep swallow me up, or the pit close its mouth over me.
Deep calls to deep at the roar of your waterfalls; all your breakers and your waves have gone over me.
The cords of death encompassed me; the torrents of destruction assailed 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.
They were snatched away before their time; their foundation was washed away.
That they are like straw before the wind, and like chaff that the storm carries away?
To fill his belly to the full, God will send his burning anger against him and rain it upon him into his body.
He will fly away like a dream and not be found; he will be chased away like a vision of the night.
And that night the angel of the Lord went out and struck down 185,000 in the camp of the Assyrians. And when people arose early in the morning, behold, these were all dead bodies.
At midnight the Lord struck down all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sat on his throne to the firstborn of the captive who was in the dungeon, and all the firstborn of the livestock.
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