Leviticus 26:36

26:36 “‘As for ¹  the ones who remain among you, I will bring despair into their hearts in the lands of their enemies. The sound of a blowing leaf will pursue them, and they will flee as one who flees the sword and fall down even though there is no pursuer.

Deuteronomy 28:32-34

28:32 Your sons and daughters will be given to another people while you look on in vain all day, and you will be powerless to do anything about it. ²  28:33 As for the produce of your land and all your labor, a people you do not know will consume it, and you will be nothing but oppressed and crushed for the rest of your lives. 28:34 You will go insane from seeing all this.

Deuteronomy 28:65-67

28:65 Among those nations you will have no rest nor will there be a place of peaceful rest for the soles of your feet, for there the Lord will give you an anxious heart, failing eyesight, and a spirit of despair. 28:66 Your life will hang in doubt before you; you will be terrified by night and day and will have no certainty of surviving from one day to the next. ³  28:67 In the morning you will say, ‘If only it were evening!’ And in the evening you will say, ‘I wish it were morning!’ because of the things you will fear and the things you will see.

Hebrews 10:26-27

10:26 For if we deliberately keep on sinning after receiving the knowledge of the truth, no further sacrifice for sins is left for us, ⁴  10:27 but only a certain fearful expectation of judgment and a fury ⁵  of fire that will consume God’s enemies. ⁶ 

¹ tn Heb “And.”

² tn Heb “and there will be no power in your hand”; NCV “there will be nothing you can do.”

³ tn Heb “you will not be confident in your life.” The phrase “from one day to the next” is implied by the following verse.

⁴ tn Grk “is left,” with “for us” implied by the first half of the verse.

⁵ tn Grk “zeal,” recalling God’s jealous protection of his holiness and honor (cf. Exod 20:5).

⁶ tn Grk “the enemies.”