The king is not delivered by the multitude of an army; a mighty man is not rescued by much strength.

A horse is a vain thing for safety; neither shall he provide escape by his great strength.

so shall the king of Assyria lead away Egypt as captives, and Ethiopia as exiles, young and old, naked and barefoot, even with buttocks stripped bare, to the indecent exposure of Egypt.

And Hazael said, Why is my lord weeping? He answered, Because I know the evil that you will do to the children of Israel: Their strongholds you will set on fire, and their young men you will kill with the sword; and you will dash their children, and rip open their women with child.

O daughter of Babylon, who are to be destroyed, blessed is the one who rewards you as you have dealt out to us.

Howl! For the day of Jehovah is at hand! It shall come as a destruction from the Almighty.

Samaria is held guilty, for she has rebelled against her God. They shall fall by the sword, their infants shall be dashed in pieces, and their women with child shall be ripped open.

Thus says Jehovah: For three transgressions of the sons of Ammon, and for four, I will not turn back from punishing it, for they ripped open the pregnant women of Gilead, that they might make their border larger.

Arise, cry out in the night. At the beginning of the watches, pour out your heart like water before the face of the Lord. Lift up your hands toward Him for the life of your children who faint from hunger at the head of every street.

How the gold has become dim; the fine gold has changed! The stones of the sanctuary are poured out at the head of every street.

And they have cast lots for My people. And have given a boy as payment for a prostitute and sold a girl for wine, that they might drink.

In the day that you stood on the other side, in the day that strangers took captive his forces, and foreigners entered his gates, and cast lots for Jerusalem, even you were as one of them.