But as for you, your dead bodies will fall in this wilderness,

Your men will fall by the sword, your strong men will die in battle.

I beat them to death; they fall at my feet.

Let the wicked fall into their own nets, while I escape.

Condemn them, O God! May their own schemes be their downfall! Drive them away because of their many acts of insurrection, for they have rebelled against you.

Your arrows are sharp and penetrate the hearts of the king’s enemies. Nations fall at your feet.

So her young men will fall in her city squares. All her soldiers will be destroyed at that time,” says the Lord.

Ethiopia, Put, Lud, all the foreigners, Libya, and the people of the covenant land will die by the sword along with them.

The young men of On and of Pi-beseth will die by the sword; and the cities will go into captivity.

They will fall among those killed by the sword. The sword is drawn; they carry her and all her hordes away.

I will fill its mountains with its dead; on your hills and in your valleys and in all your ravines, those killed by the sword will fall.

They do not jostle one another; each of them marches straight ahead. They burst through the city defenses and do not break ranks.

He must rededicate to the Lord the days of his separation and bring a male lamb in its first year as a reparation offering, but the former days will not be counted because his separation was defiled.

Your dead bodies will fall in this wilderness – all those of you who were numbered, according to your full number, from twenty years old and upward, who have murmured against me.

For if they fall, one will help his companion up, but pity the person who falls down and has no one to help him up.

You will have no place to go, except to kneel with the prisoners, or to fall among those who have been killed. Despite all this, his anger does not subside, and his hand is ready to strike again.

We were pregnant, we strained, we gave birth, as it were, to wind. We cannot produce deliverance on the earth; people to populate the world are not born.

For her young men will fall in her city squares. All her soldiers will be destroyed at that time,” says the Lord who rules over all.

“So the time will certainly come when I will punish the idols of Babylon. Her whole land will be put to shame. All her mortally wounded will collapse in her midst.

A third of your people will die of plague or be overcome by the famine within you. A third of your people will fall by the sword surrounding you, and a third I will scatter to the winds. I will unleash a sword behind them.