Voices of terror will scream in their ears, and robbers attack when they think they are safe.

All around them terror is waiting; it follows them at every step.

Even before their time had come, they were washed away by a flood.

The danger of death was all around me; the waves of destruction rolled over me.

(SEE 42:6)

Save me from sinking in the mud; keep me safe from my enemies, safe from the deep water.

Don't let the flood come over me; don't let me drown in the depths or sink into the grave.

You threw me down into the depths, to the very bottom of the sea, where the waters were all around me, and all your mighty waves rolled over me.

Let them eat all they want! God will punish them in fury and anger.

and blow them away like straw in the wind, or like dust carried away in a storm?

At midnight the LORD killed all the first-born sons in Egypt, from the king's son, who was heir to the throne, to the son of the prisoner in the dungeon; all the first-born of the animals were also killed.

That night an angel of the LORD went to the Assyrian camp and killed 185,000 soldiers. At dawn the next day there they lay, all dead!

That same night Belshazzar, the king of Babylonia, was killed;