Bible Verses

O king of Assyria, your shepherds are sleeping, your nobles lie down deeply asleep, while across the mountains your people scatter,and there is no one to gather them together.

Like grasshoppers, your officials were like swarms of locusts, and your soldiers settled on the walls on a cold day. But the sun appears; they fly away and they are gone; no one knows where.

You have multiplied your merchants more than the stars in the sky’

There, the fire will consume you, and the sword will cut you down, even if you are as numerous as locusts, innumerable as grasshoppers.

There Is No Remedy Brace yourselves for the siege: draw water, strengthen the wall, walk on the clay and mortar, and repair the brickwork.

Look at your brave warriors—they are like women! Your gates are wide open, the bars burned by fire, and enemies freely enter.

Your fortresses are like fig trees loaded with early fruits that fall when shakeninto the waiting mouths.

You, too, will drink from this; you will also hide from your enemies.

yet she was taken away and held captive among the exiles. Her infants were crushed at every road’s entrance; lots were cast for her nobles, her great men bound in chains.

Ethiopia and Egypt supported her, Put and Libya were her allies,