The noise of battle can be heard in the land of Babylonia. There is the sound of great destruction.

Let them fall slain in the land of Babylonia, mortally wounded in the streets of her cities.

ל (Lamed) To crush underfoot all the earth’s prisoners,

Now it is planted in the wilderness, in a dry and thirsty land.

“‘So I brought them out of the land of Egypt and led them to the wilderness.

I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and disperse them among foreign countries.

(A city by the name of Hamonah will also be there.) They will cleanse the land.’

I cared for you in the wilderness, in the dry desert where no water was.

Then the Lord became zealous for his land; he had compassion on his people.

The Israelites turn justice into bitterness; they throw what is fair and right to the ground.

“As in the days when you departed from the land of Egypt, I will show you miraculous deeds.”

You furiously stomp on the earth, you angrily trample down the nations.

God said, “Let the land produce living creatures according to their kinds: cattle, creeping things, and wild animals, each according to its kind.” It was so.

God saw the earth, and indeed it was ruined, for all living creatures on the earth were sinful.

So God said to Noah, “I have decided that all living creatures must die, for the earth is filled with violence because of them. Now I am about to destroy them and the earth.

The flood engulfed the earth for forty days. As the waters increased, they lifted the ark and raised it above the earth.

And all living things that moved on the earth died, including the birds, domestic animals, wild animals, all the creatures that swarm over the earth, and all humankind.

and with every living creature that is with you, including the birds, the domestic animals, and every living creature of the earth with you, all those that came out of the ark with you – every living creature of the earth.

Now the Lord said to Abram, “Go out from your country, your relatives, and your father’s household to the land that I will show you.

And I will make your descendants like the dust of the earth, so that if anyone is able to count the dust of the earth, then your descendants also can be counted.