You pick me up on the wind and make me ride on it; you toss me about in the storm.

The sluice gates are opened; the royal palace is deluged and dissolves.

They reached up to the sky, then dropped into the depths. The sailors’ strength left them because the danger was so great.

Then the chiefs of Edom will be terrified, trembling will seize the leaders of Moab, and the inhabitants of Canaan will shake.

Saul’s watchmen at Gibeah in the territory of Benjamin looked on as the crowd of soldiers seemed to melt away first in one direction and then in another.

Nations are in uproar, kingdoms are overthrown. God gives a shout, the earth dissolves.

You saturate its furrows, and soak its plowed ground. With rain showers you soften its soil, and make its crops grow.

When the earth and all its inhabitants dissolve in fear, I make its pillars secure.” (Selah)

The mountains tremble before him, the hills convulse; the earth is laid waste before him, the world and all its inhabitants are laid waste.

They told Joshua, “Surely the Lord is handing over all the land to us! All who live in the land are cringing before us!”

Wail, O city gate! Cry out, O city! Melt with fear, all you Philistines! For out of the north comes a cloud of smoke, and there are no stragglers in its ranks.

No one invokes your name, or makes an effort to take hold of you. For you have rejected us and handed us over to our own sins.

The Lord spoke about Damascus. “The people of Hamath and Arpad will be dismayed because they have heard bad news. Their courage will melt away because of worry. Their hearts will not be able to rest.

So hearts melt with fear and many stumble. At all their gates I have stationed the sword for slaughter. Ah! It is made to flash, it is drawn for slaughter!

The sovereign Lord who commands armies will do this. He touches the earth and it dissolves; all who live on it mourn. The whole earth rises like the River Nile, and then grows calm like the Nile in Egypt.

“Be sure of this, the time is coming,” says the Lord, “when the plowman will catch up to the reaper and the one who stomps the grapes will overtake the planter. Juice will run down the slopes, it will flow down all the hillsides.

She said to the men, “I know the Lord is handing this land over to you. We are absolutely terrified of you, and all who live in the land are cringing before you.