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Then, as they set out, a terror from God fell upon the towns
round about, so that no one pursued the sons of Jacob. Thus Jacob
and all the people who were with him arrived in Luz (that is,
Bethel) in the land of Canaan. [GEN 35:5-6]
In your mercy you led the people you redeemed; in your strength
you guided them to your holy dwelling. The nations heard and
quaked; anguish gripped the dwellers in Philistia. Then were the
princes of Edom dismayed; trembling seized the chieftains of Moab;
All the dwellers in Canaan melted away; terror and dread fell upon
them. By the might of your arm they were frozen like stone, while
your people, O LORD, passed over, while the people you had made
your own passed over. [EX 15:13-16]
"Ask now of the days of old, before your time, ever since
God created man upon the earth; ask from one end of the sky to the
other: Did anything so great ever happen before? Was it ever heard
of? Did a people ever hear the voice of God speaking from the
midst of fire, as you did, and live? Or did any god venture to go
and take a nation for himself from the midst of another nation, by
testings, by signs and wonders, by war, with his strong hand and
outstretched arm, and by great terrors, all of which the LORD,
your God, did for you in Egypt before your very eyes? All this you
were allowed to see that you might know the LORD is God and there
is no other." [Taken from DEUT 4:32-35]
When the LORD saw this, he was filled with loathing and anger
toward his sons and daughters. "I will hide my face from
them," he said, "and see what will then become of them.
What a fickle race they are, sons with no loyalty in them! Since they have provoked me with their 'no-god' and angered
me with their vain idols, I will provoke them with a 'no-people';
with a foolish nation I will anger them. For by my wrath a
fire is enkindled that shall rage to the depths of the nether
world, consuming the earth with its yield, and licking with flames
the roots of the mountains. I will spend on them woe upon woe and
exhaust all my arrows against them: Emaciating hunger and
consuming fever and bitter pestilence, and the teeth of wild
beasts I will send among them, with the venom of reptiles gliding in the dust.
Snatched away by the sword in the street and by
sheer terror at home shall be the youth and the maiden alike, the
nursing babe as well as the hoary old man." [Taken from DEUT 32:19-25]
In this first exploit Jonathan and his armor-bearer slew about
twenty men within half a furlong. Then panic spread to the army
and to the countryside, and all the soldiers, including the
outpost and the raiding parties, were terror-stricken. The earth
also shook, so that the panic was beyond human endurance. [1SAM
14:14-15]
He stood and shouted to the ranks of Israel: "Why come out
in battle formation? I am a Philistine, and you are Saul's
servants. Choose one of your men, and have him come down to me. If
he beats me in combat and kills me, we will be your vassals; but
if I beat him and kill him, you shall be our vassals and serve
us." The Philistine continued: "I defy the ranks of
Israel today. Give me a man and let us fight together." Saul
and all the men of Israel, when they heard this challenge of the
Philistine, were dismayed and terror-stricken. [1SAM 17:8-11]
Immediately Saul fell full length on the ground, for he was
badly shaken by Samuel's message. Moreover, he had no bodily
strength left, since he had eaten nothing all that day and night.
Then the woman came to Saul, and seeing that he was quite
terror-stricken, said to him: "Remember, your maidservant
obeyed you: I took my life in my hands and fulfilled the request
you made of me. Now you, in turn, please listen to your
maidservant. Let me set something before you to eat, so that you
may have strength when you go on your way." [1SAM 28:20-22]
All the guests of Adonijah left in terror, each going his own way.
Adonijah, in fear of Solomon, also left; he went and seized the horns of the altar.
[Taken from 1KGS 1:49-50]
In that former time there was no peace for anyone to go or come, but there were many terrors upon the inhabitants of the lands. Nation crushed nation and city crushed city, for God destroyed them by every kind of adversity.
[2CHRON 15:5-6]
Therefore the anger of the LORD has come upon Judah and
Jerusalem; he has made them an object of terror, astonishment and
mockery, as you see with your own eyes. For our fathers, as you
know, fell by the sword, and our sons, our daughters and our wives
have been taken captive because of this. Now, I intend to make a
covenant with the LORD, the God of Israel, that his burning anger
may withdraw from us. [Taken from 2CHRON 29:8-10]
Then, after they lifted him up, he threw himself at the feet of Judith in homage, saying: "Blessed are you in every tent of Judah; and in every foreign nation, all who hear of you will be struck with terror.
But now, tell me all that you did during these days." So Judith told him, in the presence of the people, all that she had been doing from the day she left till the time she began speaking to them.
[Taken from JDTH 14:7-8]
When Simon heard that Trypho was gathering a large army to
invade and ravage the land of Judah, and saw that the people were
in dread and terror, he went up to Jerusalem. There he assembled
the people and exhorted them in these words: "You know what
I, my brothers, and my father's house have done for the laws and
the sanctuary; what battles and disasters we have been through. It
was for the sake of these, for the sake of Israel, that all my
brothers have perished, and I alone am left. Far be it from me,
then, to save my own life in any time of distress, for I am not
better than my brothers. Rather will I avenge my nation and the
sanctuary, as well as your wives and children, for all the nations
out of hatred have united to destroy us." As the people heard
these words, their spirit was rekindled. They shouted in reply:
"You are our leader in place of your brothers Judas and
Jonathan. Fight our battles, and we will do everything that you
tell us." [1MACC 13:1-9]
So on the day he had set he went in to take an inventory of the
funds. There was great distress throughout the city. Priests
prostrated themselves in their priestly robes before the altar,
and loudly begged him in heaven who had given the law about
deposits to keep the deposits safe for those who had made them.
Whoever saw the appearance of the high priest was pierced to the
heart, for the changed color of his face manifested the anguish of
his soul. The terror and bodily trembling that had come over the
man clearly showed those who saw him the pain that lodged in his
heart. [2MACC 3:14-17]
While they were imploring the almighty Lord to keep the
deposits safe and secure for those who had placed them in trust,
Heliodorus went on with his plan. But just as he was approaching
the treasury with his bodyguards, the Lord of spirits who holds
all power manifested himself in so striking a way that those who
had been bold enough to follow Heliodorus were panic-stricken at
God's power and fainted away in terror. [2MACC 3:22-24]
But when Judas' first cohort appeared, the enemy was
overwhelmed with fear and terror at the manifestation of the
All-seeing. Scattering in every direction, they rushed away in
such headlong flight that in many cases they wounded one another,
pierced by the swords of their own men. [2MACC 12:22]
Finally they withdrew in triumph, having filled the camp with terror and confusion. Day was just breaking when this was accomplished with the help and protection of the LORD.
[Taken from 2MACC 13:16-17]
For the arrows of the Almighty pierce me, and my spirit drinks
in their poison; the terrors of God are arrayed against me. [JOB
6:4]
Would that there were an arbiter between us, who could lay his
hand upon us both and withdraw his rod from me. Would that his
terrors did not frighten me; that I might speak without being
afraid of him. [JOB 9:33-35]
Withdraw your hand far from me, and let not the terror of you
frighten me. [JOB 13:21]
The wicked man is in torment all his days, and limited years are in store for the tyrant; The sound of terrors is in his ears; when all is prosperous, the spoiler comes upon him.
[JOB 15:20-21]
Truly, the light of the wicked is extinguished; no flame
brightens his hearth. The light is darkened in his tent; in spite
of him, his lamp goes out... On every side terrors affright him;
they harry him at each step... Fiery destruction lodges in his
tent, and marches him off to the king of terrors. He is plucked
from the security of his tent; over his abode brimstone is
scattered. Below, his roots dry up, and above, his branches
wither. His memory perishes from the land, and he has no name on
the earth. He is driven from light into darkness, and banished out
of the world. [JOB 18:5-6,11,14-18]
God shall send against him the fury of his wrath and rain down
his missiles of war upon him. Should he escape the iron weapon,
the bow of bronze shall pierce him through; The dart shall come
out of his back; terrors shall fall upon him. Complete darkness is
in store for him; the fire which shall consume him needs not to be
fanned. The heavens shall reveal his guilt, and the earth shall
rise up against him. The flood shall sweep away his house with the
waters that run off in the day of God's anger. This is the portion
of a wicked man, and the heritage appointed him by God. [Taken
from JOB 20:23-29]
The shades beneath writhe in terror, the waters, and their inhabitants.
Naked before him is the nether world, and Abaddon has no covering.
[JOB 26:5-6]
This is the portion of a wicked man from God, the inheritance
an oppressor receives from the Almighty: Though his children be many,
the sword is their destiny. His offspring shall not be
filled with bread. His survivors, when they die, shall have no
burial, and their widows shall not be mourned. Though he heap up
silver like dust and store away mounds of clothing, what he has
stored the just man shall wear, and the innocent shall divide the
silver. He builds his house as of cobwebs, or like a booth put up
by the vine-keeper. He lies down a rich man, one last time; he
opens his eyes and nothing remains to him. Terrors rush upon him
by day; at night the tempest carries him off. The storm wind
seizes him and he disappears; it sweeps him out of his place. [JOB
27:13-21]
They abhor me, they stand aloof from me, they do not hesitate
to spit in my face! Indeed, they have loosed their bonds; they
lord it over me, and have thrown off restraint in my presence. To
subvert my paths they rise up; they build their approaches for my
ruin. To destroy me, they attack with none to stay them; as
through a wide breach they advance. Amid the uproar they come on
in waves; over me rolls the terror. My dignity is borne off on the
wind, and my welfare vanishes like a cloud. [JOB 30:10-15]
Do you make the steed to quiver while his thunderous snorting
spreads terror? [JOB 39:20]
From his nostrils issues steam, as from a seething pot or bowl.
His breath sets coals afire; a flame pours from his mouth.
Strength abides in his neck, and terror leaps before him. His
heart is hard as stone; his flesh, as the lower millstone. When he
rises up, the mighty are afraid; the waves of the sea fall back. [JOB
41:12-17]
In utter terror is my soul - and you, LORD, how long...? Turn, LORD, save my life; in your mercy rescue me.
[Taken from PS 6:4-5]
To Sheol the wicked will depart, all the nations that forget
God. The needy will never be forgotten, nor will the hope of the
afflicted ever fade. Arise, LORD, let no mortal prevail; let the
nations be judged in your presence. Strike them with terror, LORD;
show the nations they are mere mortals. [Taken from PS 9:18-21]
The LORD is king forever; the nations have vanished from God's
land. You listen, LORD, to the needs of the poor; you encourage
them and hear their prayers. You win justice for the orphaned and
oppressed; no one on earth will cause terror again. [PS 10:16-18]
LORD, when you showed me favor I stood like the mighty
mountains. But when you hid your face I was struck with terror.
[PS 30:8]
I hear the whispers of the crowd; terrors are all around me.
They conspire against me; they plot to take my life. But I trust
in you, LORD; I say, "You are my God." My times are in
your hands; rescue me from my enemies, from the hands of my
pursuers. Let your face shine on your servant; save me in your
kindness. Do not let me be put to shame, for I have called to you,
LORD. Put the wicked to shame; reduce them to silence in Sheol.
Strike dumb their lying lips, proud lips that attack the just in
contempt and scorn. [PS 31:14-19]
Listen, God, to my prayer; do not hide from my pleading; hear
me and give answer. I rock with grief; I groan at the uproar of
the enemy, the clamor of the wicked. They heap trouble upon me,
savagely accuse me. My heart pounds within me; death's terrors
fall upon me. Fear and trembling overwhelm me; shuddering sweeps
over me. [PS 55:2-6]
But I cry out to you, LORD; in the morning my prayer comes
before you. Why do you reject me, LORD? Why hide your face from
me? I am mortally afflicted since youth; lifeless, I suffer your
terrible blows. Your wrath has swept over me; your terrors have
reduced me to silence. All the day they surge round like a flood;
from every side they close in on me. Because of you companions
shun me; my only friend is darkness. [PS 88:14-19]
Truly we are consumed by your anger, filled with terror by your
wrath. You have kept our faults before you, our hidden sins
exposed to your sight. Our life ebbs away under your wrath; our
years end like a sigh. Seventy is the sum of our years, or eighty,
if we are strong; Most of them are sorrow and toil; they pass
quickly, we are all but gone. Who comprehends your terrible anger?
Your wrath matches the fear it inspires. Teach us to count our
days aright, that we may gain wisdom of heart. Relent, O LORD! How
long? Have pity on your servants! Fill us at daybreak with your
love, that all our days we may sing for joy. Make us glad as many
days as you humbled us, for as many years as we have seen trouble.
[PS 90:7-15]
You shall not fear the terror of the night nor the arrow that
flies by day, Nor the pestilence that roams in darkness, nor the
plague that ravages at noon. Though a thousand fall at your side,
ten thousand at your right hand, near you it shall not come. You
need simply watch; the punishment of the wicked you will see. You
have the LORD for your refuge; you have made the Most High your
stronghold. No evil shall befall you, no affliction come near your
tent. For God commands the angels to guard you in all your ways.
With their hands they shall support you, lest you strike your foot
against a stone. [PS 91:5-12]
"Because I called and you refused, I extended my hand and
no one took notice; Because you disdained all my counsel, and my
reproof you ignored - I, in my turn, will laugh at your doom; I
will mock when terror overtakes you; When terror comes upon you
like a storm, and your doom approaches like a whirlwind; when
distress and anguish befall you. Then they call me, but I
answer not; they seek me, but find me not; Because they hated
knowledge, and chose not the fear of the LORD; They ignored my
counsel, they spurned all my reproof; And in their arrogance they
preferred arrogance, and like fools they hated knowledge: Now they must eat the fruit of their own way, and with their
own devices be glutted. For the self-will of the simple kills
them, the smugness of fools destroys them. But he who obeys me
dwells in security, in peace, without fear of harm." [PROV
1:24-33]
Be not afraid of sudden terror, of the ruin of the wicked when it comes;
For the LORD will be your confidence, and will keep your foot from the snare.
[PROV 3:25-26]
To practice justice is a joy for the just, but terror for
evildoers. [PROV 21:15]
For when the dire venom of beasts came upon them and they were
dying from the bite of crooked serpents, your anger endured not to
the end. But as a warning, for a short time they were terrorized,
though they had a sign of salvation, to remind them of the precept
of your law. For he who turned toward it was saved, not by what he
saw, but by you, the savior of all. And by this also you convinced
our foes that you are he who delivers from all evil. [Taken from
WISDOM 16:5-8]
For they who supposed their secret sins were hid under the dark
veil of oblivion Were scattered in fearful trembling, terrified by
apparitions. For not even their inner chambers kept them fearless,
for crashing sounds on all sides terrified them, and mute phantoms
with somber looks appeared. No force, even of fire, was able to
give light, nor did the flaming brilliance of the stars succeed in
lighting up that gloomy night. But only intermittent, fearful
fires flashed through upon them; And in their terror they thought
beholding these was worse than the times when that sight was no
longer to be seen. And mockeries of the magic art were in
readiness, and a jeering reproof of their vaunted shrewdness. For
they who undertook to banish fears and terrors from the sick soul
themselves sickened with a ridiculous fear. For even though no
monstrous thing frightened them, they shook at the passing of
insects and the hissing of reptiles, and perished trembling,
reluctant to face even the air that they could nowhere escape. For
wickedness, of its nature cowardly, testifies in its own
condemnation, and because of a distressed conscience, always
magnifies misfortunes. For fear is nought but the surrender of the
helps that come from reason; and the more one's expectation is of
itself uncertain, the more one makes of not knowing the cause that
brings on torment. [WISDOM 17:3-13]
For whether one was a farmer, or a shepherd, or a worker at
tasks in the wasteland, taken unawares, he served out the
inescapable sentence; for all were bound by the one bond of
darkness. And were it only the whistling wind, or the melodious
song of birds in the spreading branches, or the steady sound of
rushing water, or the rude crash of overthrown rocks, or the
unseen gallop of bounding animals, or the roaring cry of the
fiercest beasts, or an echo resounding from the hollow of the
hills, these sounds, inspiring terror, paralyzed them. For the
whole world shone with brilliant light and continued its works
without interruption; Over them alone was spread oppressive night,
an image of the darkness that next should come upon them; yet they
were to themselves more burdensome than the darkness. [Taken from
WISDOM 17:17-21]
He who spoils his son will have wounds to bandage, and will
quake inwardly at every outcry. A colt untamed turns out stubborn;
a son left to himself grows up unruly. Pamper your child and he
will be a terror for you, indulge him and he will bring you grief.
Share not in his frivolity lest you share in his sorrow, when
finally your teeth are clenched in remorse. [SIRACH 30:7-10]
A great anxiety has God allotted, and a heavy yoke, to the sons
of men; From the day one leaves his mother's womb to the day he
returns to the mother of all the living, His thoughts, the fear in
his heart, and his troubled forebodings till the day he dies - whether he sits on a lofty throne or grovels in dust and ashes,
whether he bears a splendid crown or is wrapped in the coarsest of
cloaks - are of wrath and envy, trouble and dread, terror of
death, fury and strife. Even when he lies on his bed to rest, his
cares at night disturb his sleep. So short is his rest it seems
like none, till in his dreams he struggles as he did by day, terrified by what his mind's eye sees, like a fugitive being
pursued; As he reaches safety, he wakes up astonished that there
was nothing to fear. So it is with all flesh, with man and with
beast, but for sinners seven times more. [SIRACH 40:1-8]
Get behind the rocks, hide in the dust, from the terror of the
LORD and the splendor of his majesty! The haughty eyes of man will
be lowered, the arrogance of men will be abased, and the LORD
alone will be exalted, on that day. For the LORD of hosts will
have his day against all that is proud and arrogant, all that is
high, and it will be brought low [Taken from ISA 2:10-12]
Men will go into caves in the rocks and into holes in the
earth, From the terror of the LORD and the splendor of his
majesty, when he arises to overawe the earth. On that day men will
throw to the moles and the bats the idols of silver and gold which
they made for worship. They go into caverns in the rocks and into
crevices in the cliffs, From the terror of the LORD and the
splendor of his majesty, when he arises to overawe the earth. [ISA
2:19-21]
They cross the ravine: "We will spend the night at Geba."
Ramah is in terror, Gibeah of Saul has fled. [Taken from ISA 10:29]
Howl, for the day of the LORD is near; as destruction from the
Almighty it comes... Every man's heart melts in
terror. Pangs and sorrows take hold of them, like a woman in labor
they writhe; They look aghast at each other, their faces aflame.
Lo, the day of the LORD comes, cruel, with wrath and burning
anger; To lay waste the land and destroy the sinners within it! [Taken
from ISA
13:6-9]
In the evening, they spread terror, before morning, they are
gone! Such is the portion of those who despoil us, the lot of
those who plunder us. [ISA 17:14]
And the land of Judah shall be a terror to the Egyptians. Every time they remember Judah, they shall stand in dread because of the plan which the LORD of hosts has in mind for them.
[Taken from ISA 19:17]
"Terror, pit, and trap are upon you, inhabitant of the earth; He
who flees at the sound of terror will fall into the pit; He who
climbs out of the pit will be caught in the trap. For the windows
on high will be opened and the foundations of the earth will
shake. The earth will burst asunder, the earth will be shaken
apart, the earth will be convulsed. The earth will reel like a
drunkard, and it will sway like a hut; Its rebellion will weigh it
down, until it falls, never to rise again." On that day the
LORD will punish the host of the heavens in the heavens, and the
kings of the earth on the earth. They will be gathered together
like prisoners into a pit; They will be shut up in a dungeon, and
after many days they will be punished. Then the moon will blush
and the sun grow pale, for the LORD of hosts will reign on Mount
Zion and in Jerusalem, glorious in the sight of his elders. [Taken
from ISA
24:17-23]
Therefore, thus says the Lord GOD: See, I am laying a stone in
Zion, a stone that has been tested, a precious cornerstone as a
sure foundation; he who puts his faith in it shall not be shaken.
I will make of right a measuring line, of justice a level. Hail
shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and waters shall flood the
hiding place. Your covenant with death shall be canceled and your
pact with the nether world shall not stand. When the overwhelming
scourge passes, you shall be trampled down by it. Whenever it
passes, it shall take you; morning after morning it shall pass, by
day and by night; terror alone shall convey the message. For the
bed shall be too short to stretch out in, and the cover too narrow
to wrap in. For the LORD shall rise up as on Mount Perazim, bestir
himself as in the Valley of Gibeon, To carry out his work, his
singular work, to perform his deed, his strange deed. [ISA 28:16-21]
He shall rush past his crag in panic, and his princes shall
flee in terror from his standard, Says the LORD who has a fire in
Zion and a furnace in Jerusalem. [ISA 31:9]
Your eyes will see a king in his splendor, they will look upon
a vast land. Your mind will dwell on the terror: "Where is he
who counted, where is he who weighed? Where is he who counted the
towers?" To the people of alien tongue you will look no more,
the people of obscure speech, stammering in a language not
understood. Look to Zion, the city of our festivals; let your eyes
see Jerusalem as a quiet abode, a tent not to be struck, whose
pegs will never be pulled up, nor any of its ropes severed. Indeed
the LORD will be there with us, majestic; yes, the LORD our judge,
the LORD our lawgiver, the LORD our king, he it is who will save
us. [ISA 33:17-22]
You said, "I shall remain always, a sovereign mistress
forever!" But you did not lay these things to heart, you
disregarded their outcome. Now hear this, voluptuous one,
enthroned securely, Saying to yourself, "I, and no one else!
I shall never be a widow, or suffer the loss of my
children" - both these things shall come to you suddenly, in
a single day: Complete bereavement and widowhood shall come upon
you for your many sorceries and the great number of your spells;
Because you felt secure in your wickedness, and said, "No one
sees me." Your wisdom and your knowledge led you astray, and
you said to yourself, "I, and no one else!" But upon you
shall come evil you will not know how to predict; Disaster shall
befall you which you cannot allay. Suddenly there shall come upon
you ruin which you will not expect. Keep up, now, your spells and
your many sorceries. Perhaps you can make them avail, perhaps you
can strike terror! You wearied yourself with many consultations,
at which you toiled from your youth; Let the astrologers stand
forth to save you, the stargazers who forecast at each new moon
what would happen to you. Lo, they are like stubble, fire consumes
them; They cannot save themselves from the spreading flames. This
is no warming ember, no fire to sit before. Thus do your wizards
serve you with whom you have toiled from your youth; Each wanders
his own way, with none to save you. [ISA 47:7-15]
Thus says the LORD: See, a people comes from the land of the
north, a great nation, roused from the ends of the earth. Bow and
javelin they wield; cruel and pitiless are they. They sound like
the roaring sea as they ride forth on steeds, each in his place,
for battle against you, daughter Zion. We hear the report of them;
helpless fall our hands, anguish takes hold of us, throes like a
mother's in childbirth. Go not forth into the field, step not into
the street, beware of the enemy's sword; terror on every side! [Taken
from JER
6:22-25]
I will gather them all in, says the LORD: no grapes on the
vine, No figs on the fig trees, foliage withered! Why do we remain
here? Let us form ranks and enter the walled cities, to perish
there; For the LORD has wrought our destruction, he has given us
poison to drink, because we have sinned against the LORD. We wait
for peace to no avail; for a time of healing, but terror comes
instead. [JER 8:13-15]
Have you cast Judah off completely? Is Zion loathsome to you?
Why have you struck us a blow that cannot be healed? We wait for
peace, to no avail; for a time of healing, but terror comes
instead. We recognize, O LORD, our wickedness, the guilt of our
fathers; that we have sinned against you. For your name's sake
spurn us not, disgrace not the throne of your glory; remember your
covenant with us, and break it not. [JER 14:19-21]
Who will pity you, Jerusalem, who will console you? Who will
stop to ask about your welfare? You have disowned me, says the
LORD, turned your back upon me; And so I stretched out my hand to
destroy you, I was weary of sparing you. I winnowed them with the
fan in every city gate. I destroyed my people through bereavement;
they returned not from their evil ways. Their widows were more
numerous before me than the sands of the sea. I brought against
the mother of youths the spoiler at midday; Suddenly I struck her
with anguish and terror. The mother of seven swoons away, gasping
out her life; Her sun sets in full day, she is disgraced,
despairing. Their survivors I will give to the sword before their
enemies, says the LORD. [JER 15:5-9]
The next morning, after Pashhur had released Jeremiah from the
stocks, the prophet said to him: Instead of Pashhur, the LORD will
name you "Terror on every side." For thus says the LORD:
Indeed, I will deliver you to terror, you and all your friends.
Your own eyes shall see them fall by the sword of their enemies.
All Judah I will deliver to the king of Babylon, who shall take
them captive to Babylon or slay them with the sword. All the
wealth of this city, all it has toiled for and holds dear, all the
treasures of the kings of Judah, I will give as plunder into the
hands of their foes, who shall seize it and carry it away to
Babylon. You Pashhur, and all the members of your household shall
go into exile. To Babylon you shall go, you and all your friends;
there you shall die and be buried, because you have prophesied
lies to them. [JER 20:3-6]
Yes, I hear the whisperings of many: "Terror on every
side! Denounce! let us denounce him!" All those who were my
friends are on the watch for any misstep of mine. "Perhaps he
will be trapped; then we can prevail, and take our vengeance on
him." But the LORD is with me, like a mighty champion: my
persecutors will stumble, they will not triumph. In their failure
they will be put to utter shame, to lasting, unforgettable
confusion. [JER 20:10-11]
With strong hand and outstretched arm you brought your people
Israel out of the land of Egypt amid signs and wonders and great
terror. This land you gave them, as you had promised their fathers
under oath, a land flowing with milk and honey. They entered and
took possession of it, but they did not listen to your voice; by
your law they did not live, and what you commanded they failed to
do. Hence you let all these evils befall them. [JER 32:21-23]
What do I see? With broken ranks they fall back; their heroes
are routed, they flee headlong without making a stand. Terror on
every side, says the LORD! The swift cannot flee, nor the hero
escape [Taken from JER 46:5-6]
On every roof of Moab and in all his squares there is mourning;
I have shattered Moab like a pot that no one wants, says the LORD.
How terror seizes Moab, and wailing! How he turns his back in
shame! Moab has become a laughingstock and a horror to all his
neighbors! For thus says the LORD: Behold, like an eagle he soars,
spreads his wings over Moab. Cities are taken, strongholds seized:
On that day the hearts of Moab's heroes are like the heart of a
woman in travail. Moab shall be destroyed, no more a people,
because he boasted against the LORD. Terror, pit, and trap be upon
you, people of Moab, says the LORD. He who flees from the terror
falls into the pit; He who climbs from the pit is caught in the
trap; For I will bring these things upon Moab in the year of their
punishment, says the LORD. [JER 48:38-44]
I am bringing terror upon you, says the Lord GOD of hosts, from
all round about you; You shall be scattered, each man in headlong
flight, with no one to rally the fugitives. [JER 49:5]
The terror you spread beguiled you, and your presumption of
heart; You that live in rocky crags, that hold the heights of the
hill: Though you build your nest high as the eagle, from there I
will drag you down, says the LORD. [JER 49:16]
"You summoned as for a feast day terrors against me from
all sides; There was not, on the day of your wrath, either
fugitive or survivor; Those whom I bore and reared my enemy has
utterly destroyed." [LAM 2:22]
We have sinned and rebelled; you have not forgiven us. You
veiled yourself in wrath and pursued us, you slew us and took no
pity; You wrapped yourself in a cloud which prayer could not
pierce. You have made us offscourings and refuse among the
nations. All our enemies have opened their mouths against us;
Terror and the pit have been our lot, desolation and destruction;
My eyes run with streams of water over the downfall of the
daughter of my people. My eyes flow without ceasing, there is no
respite, Till the LORD from heaven looks down and sees. [LAM 3:42-50]
Then he said to me: Son of man, I am breaking the staff of bread in Jerusalem. They shall eat bread which they have weighed out anxiously,
and they shall drink water which they have measured out fearfully, so that, owing to the scarcity of bread and water, everyone shall be filled with terror and waste away because of his sins.
[EZEK 4:16-17]
I will bring in the worst of the nations, who shall take
possession of their houses. I will put an end to their proud
strength, and their sanctuaries shall be profaned. When anguish
comes they shall seek peace, but there will be none. There shall
be disaster after disaster, rumor after rumor. Prophetic vision
shall fade; instruction shall be lacking to the priest, and
counsel to the elders, while the prince shall be enveloped in
terror, and the hands of the common people shall tremble. I will
deal with them according to their conduct, and according to their
judgments I will judge them; thus they shall know that I am the
LORD. [EZEK 7:24-27]
Thus says the Lord GOD: Summon an assembly against them, and
deliver them over to terror and plunder. [Taken from EZEK 23:46]
Then they shall utter a lament over you: How have you perished,
gone from the seas, city most prized! Once she was mighty on the
sea, she and her dwellers, who spread terror into all that dwelt
by the sea. On this, the day of your fall, the islands quake! The
isles in the sea are terrified at your passing. [Taken from EZEK
26:17-18]
There is Assyria with all her company, all of them slain, whose
graves have been made in the recesses of the pit; her company is
around Egypt's grave, all of them slain, fallen by the sword, who
spread terror in the land of the living. There is Elam with all
her throng about Egypt's grave, all of them slain, fallen by the
sword: they have gone down uncircumcised to the bottom of the
earth, who spread their terror in the land of the living, and they
bear their disgrace with those who go down into the pit; in the
midst of the slain they are placed. There are Meshech and Tubal
and all their throng about her grave, all of them uncircumcised,
slain by the sword, for they spread their terror in the land of
the living. They do not lie with the mighty men fallen of old, who
went down to the nether world with their weapons of war, whose
swords were placed under their heads and whose shields were laid
over their bones, though the mighty men caused terror in the land
of the living. But in the midst of the uncircumcised shall you
lie, with those slain by the sword. There are Edom, her kings, and
all her princes, who despite their might have been placed with
those slain by the sword; with the uncircumcised they lie, and
with those who go down into the pit. There are all the princes of
the north and all the Sidonians, who have gone down with the
slain, because of the terror their might inspired; they lie
uncircumcised with those slain by the sword and bear their
disgrace with those who go down to the pit. When Pharaoh sees
these, he shall be comforted for all his hordes slain by the sword
- Pharaoh and all his army, says the Lord GOD. Since he
spread his terror in the land of the living, therefore is he laid
to rest among the uncircumcised, with those slain by the sword -
Pharaoh and all his hordes, says the Lord GOD. [EZEK 32:22-32]
Thus says the Lord GOD: It is of you that I spoke in ancient
times through my servants, the prophets of Israel, who prophesied
in those days that I would bring you against them. But on that
day, the day when Gog invades the land of Israel, says the Lord
GOD, my fury shall be aroused. In my anger and in my jealousy, in
my fiery wrath, I swear: On that day there shall be a great
shaking upon the land of Israel. Before me shall tremble the fish
of the sea and the birds of the air, the beasts of the field and
all the reptiles that crawl upon the ground, and all men who are
on the land. Mountains shall be overturned, and cliffs shall
tumble, and every wall shall fall to the ground. Against him I
will summon every terror, says the Lord GOD, every man's sword
against his brother. I will hold judgment with him in pestilence
and bloodshed; flooding rain and hailstones, fire and brimstone, I
will rain upon him, upon his troops, and upon the many peoples
with him. I will prove my greatness and holiness and make myself
known in the sight of many nations; thus they shall know that I am
the LORD. [EZEK 38:17-23]
While I, Daniel, sought the meaning of the vision I had seen, a
manlike figure stood before me, and on the Ulai I heard a human
voice that cried out, "Gabriel, explain the vision to this
man." When he came near where I was standing, I fell
prostrate in terror. But he said to me, "Understand, son of
man, that the vision refers to the end time." As he spoke to
me, I fell forward in a faint; he touched me and made me stand up.
"I will show you," he said, "what is to happen
later in the period of wrath; for at the appointed time, there
will be an end." [Taken from DAN 8:15-19]
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