His victims are crushed and beaten down; they are trapped in his sturdy nets.

The sovereign master decreed judgment on Jacob, and it fell on Israel.

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

He will then turn his attention to the fortresses of his own land, but he will stumble and fall, not to be found again.

but if water is put on the seed and such a carcass falls on it, it is unclean to you.

You will stumble and fall, you proud city; no one will help you get up. I will set fire to your towns; it will burn up everything that surrounds you.”

The Lord said to Moses, “Go down and solemnly warn the people, lest they force their way through to the Lord to look, and many of them perish.

“If men fight, and one strikes his neighbor with a stone or with his fist and he does not die, but must remain in bed,

“If a man opens a pit or if a man digs a pit and does not cover it, and an ox or a donkey falls into it,

The Egyptians are mere humans, not God; their horses are made of flesh, not spirit. The Lord will strike with his hand; the one who helps will stumble and the one being helped will fall. Together they will perish.

Assyria will fall by a sword, but not one human-made; a sword not made by humankind will destroy them. They will run away from this sword and their young men will be forced to do hard labor.

Those who stay in this city will die in battle or of starvation or disease. Those who leave the city and surrender to the Babylonians who are besieging it will live. They will escape with their lives.

When Gideon arrived, he heard a man telling another man about a dream he had. The man said, “Look! I had a dream. I saw a stale cake of barley bread rolling into the Midianite camp. It hit a tent so hard it knocked it over and turned it upside down. The tent just collapsed.”

May his blood whirl over the head of Joab and the entire house of his father! May the males of Joab’s house never cease to have someone with a running sore or a skin disease or one who works at the spindle or one who falls by the sword or one who lacks food!”