He attacks his friends; he breaks his solemn promises to them.

The beauty of Israel lies slain on your high places! How the mighty have fallen!

“Are you acquainted with the way the mountain goats give birth? Do you watch as the wild deer give birth to their young?

For I am oppressed and needy, and my heart beats violently within me.

The slain will fall among you and then you will know that I am the Lord.

You have killed many people in this city; you have filled its streets with corpses.’

They will bring you down to the pit, and you will die violently in the heart of the seas.

and the one who eats it will bear his punishment for iniquity because he has profaned what is holy to the Lord. That person will be cut off from his people.

I will make my arrows drunk with blood, and my sword will devour flesh – the blood of the slaughtered and captured, the chief of the enemy’s leaders!’”

How the warriors have fallen in the midst of battle! Jonathan lies slain on your high places!

If a homicide victim should be found lying in a field in the land the Lord your God is giving you, and no one knows who killed him,

Abishai the brother of Joab was head of the three elite warriors. He killed three hundred men with his spear and gained fame along with the three elite warriors.

Yes, but the time will certainly come,” says the Lord, “when I will punish her idols. Throughout her land the mortally wounded will groan.

“‘As for you, profane and wicked prince of Israel, whose day has come, the time of final punishment,

“This is what the sovereign Lord says to Tyre: Oh, how the coastlands will shake at the sound of your fall, when the wounded groan, at the massive slaughter in your midst!

I will send a plague into the city and bloodshed into its streets; the slain will fall within it, by the sword that attacks it from every side. Then they will know that I am the Lord.

A sword will come against Egypt and panic will overtake Ethiopia when the slain fall in Egypt and they carry away her wealth and dismantle her foundations.

He and his people with him, the most terrifying of the nations, will be brought there to destroy the land. They will draw their swords against Egypt, and fill the land with corpses.

I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, and I will place my sword in his hand, but I will break the arms of Pharaoh, and he will groan like the fatally wounded before the king of Babylon.

The charioteers will charge ahead; their swords will flash and their spears will glimmer! There will be many people slain; there will be piles of the dead, and countless casualties – so many that people will stumble over the corpses.