The people of the earth will quake when they hear Babylon has been captured. Her cries of anguish will be heard by the other nations.”

Cries of anguish will come from Babylon, the sound of great destruction from the land of the Babylonians.

You heard my plea: “Do not close your ears to my cry for relief!”

I will silence the noise of your songs; the sound of your harps will be heard no more.

The Lord had caused the Syrian camp to hear the sound of chariots and horses and a large army. Then they said to one another, “Look, the king of Israel has paid the kings of the Hittites and Egypt to attack us!”

The man replied, “I heard you moving about in the orchard, and I was afraid because I was naked, so I hid.”

But the Lord said, “What have you done? The voice of your brother’s blood is crying out to me from the ground!

Because you have obeyed me, all the nations of the earth will pronounce blessings on one another using the name of your descendants.’”

All this will come to pass because Abraham obeyed me and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.”

So his mother told him, “Any curse against you will fall on me, my son! Just obey me! Go and get them for me!”

Now then, my son, do what I say. Run away immediately to my brother Laban in Haran.

When he heard me raise my voice and scream, he left his outer garment beside me and ran outside.”

but when I raised my voice and screamed, he left his outer garment and ran outside.”

He wept loudly; the Egyptians heard it and Pharaoh’s household heard about it.

Then all the community raised a loud cry, and the people wept that night.

All the Israelites who were around them fled at their cry, for they said, “What if the earth swallows us too?”

Then you came back and wept before the Lord, but he paid no attention to you whatsoever.

Have a people ever heard the voice of God speaking from the middle of fire, as you yourselves have, and lived to tell about it?

“The Levites will call out to every Israelite with a loud voice:

All these blessings will come to you in abundance if you obey the Lord your God: