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Leave none in Babylon to sow the fields, or carry scythe in harvest-time; fled, each to his own, before the invader’s sword, fled, this way and that, to the countries of their birth. (Jeremiah 50, 16)
The sword it must be, the Lord says, for the men of Chaldaea, for citizen of Babylon, and prince, and councillor; (Jeremiah 50, 35)
the sword for their wise men, that shall be fools, and their brave men, that shall be cowards; (Jeremiah 50, 36)
the sword for horse and chariot, the sword for all the mixed breed in it, that shall be weak as women, the sword for all their treasure-houses, that shall be given up to plunder. (Jeremiah 50, 37)
And for their waters, not a sword, but drought to dry them up; is not this a land of idols, that loves to see portents befall?✻ (Jeremiah 50, 38)
Unnerved the king’s hands droop at the very rumour of it; grief overmasters him, sharp as the pangs of travail.✻ (Jeremiah 50, 43)
Come, linger not, you that have escaped the sword; exiled far away, bethink you still of the Lord, still let the thought of Jerusalem return to your hearts. (Jeremiah 51, 50)
Take note, Lord, of my anguish, how my bosom burns, and my heart melts within me, in bitter ruth.✻ And all the while, sword threatens without, and death not less cruel within. (Lamentations 1, 20)
Untended they lie on the bare earth, the young and the aged; maid and warrior slain by the sword! This day of thy vengeance was to be all massacre, thou wouldst kill unsparingly. (Lamentations 2, 21)
It were better to have fallen at the sword’s point than yield thus to the stab of hunger, wasted away through famine. (Lamentations 4, 9)
bread won out in the desert, and at peril of our lives from the sword’s point! (Lamentations 5, 9)
their bones were cast out to endure sun’s heat and night frost, and great anguish they endured in their deaths, from the sword, and famine, and pestilence.✻ (Baruch 2, 25)
