The LORD Almighty is going to send disease to punish those who are now well-fed. In their bodies there will be a fire that burns and burns.

The rich forests and farmlands will be totally destroyed, in the same way that a fatal sickness destroys someone.

like drought in a dry land. But you, LORD, have silenced our enemies; you silence the shouts of cruel people, as a cloud cools a hot day.

The Egyptians are not gods---they are only human. Their horses are not supernatural. When the LORD acts, the strong nation will crumble, and the weak nation it helped will fall. Both of them will be destroyed.

Assyria will be destroyed in war, but not by human power. The Assyrians will run from battle, and their young men will be made slaves.

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!

The nations advance like rushing waves, but God reprimands them and they retreat, driven away like dust on a mountainside, like straw in a whirlwind.

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

But evil people are not like this at all; they are like straw that the wind blows away.

May they be like straw blown by the wind as the angel of the LORD pursues them!

You are guilty. You are like a high wall with a crack running down it; suddenly you will collapse.

God is in that city, and it will never be destroyed; at early dawn he will come to its aid.

Nations are terrified, kingdoms are shaken; God thunders, and the earth dissolves.

Their brave soldiers have been stripped of all they had and now are sleeping the sleep of death; all their strength and skill was useless.

When you threatened them, O God of Jacob, the horses and their riders fell dead.

When people say, "Everything is quiet and safe," then suddenly destruction will hit them! It will come as suddenly as the pains that come upon a woman in labor, and people will not escape.