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• Bide his time he may, but power lacks not; guilty is guilty still. Storm and whirlwind are the path he treads, cloud-wrack the dust he spurns; (Nahum 1, 3)

• How jostle they in the streets, those chariots, hurtle they in the open market-place; dazzle they like flame of torches, like the lightning that comes and goes! (Nahum 2, 4)

• Out with silver, out with gold of hers; store is here of costly stuff beyond price or reckoning! (Nahum 2, 9)

• What marvel if the old teachings are torn up,✻ and redress is never to be found? Innocence by knavery circumvented still, and false award given! (Habakkuk 1, 4)

• Have you no eyes for the world about you? Look upon it with wonder and awe; in your own days here be strange deeds a-doing, so strange, a man would scarce credit them if they were told in story.✻ (Habakkuk 1, 5)

• Plunderers all; eager as the sirocco their onset, whirling away, like sand-storm, their captives.✻ (Habakkuk 1, 9)

• Veers wind, and he is gone; see him fall down and ascribe the victory to his god!✻ (Habakkuk 1, 11)

• Is it the rivers, Lord, that have awaked thy anger; should it be the rivers? Or has the sea earned thy vengeance, that thou comest thus mounted on thy horses, on thy victorious chariot; (Habakkuk 3, 8)

• that bow of thine brought into full play, which grants to Israel the assurance of thy succour?✻ Earth is torn into ravines; (Habakkuk 3, 9)

• the mountains tremble at the sight. Fierce falls the rain-storm, the depths beneath us roar aloud, the heights beckon from above; (Habakkuk 3, 10)

• Day of vengeance, day of strain and stress, day of ransack and ruin; dim and dark, overcast with cloud and storm! (Zephaniah 1, 15)

• Gaza and Ascalon to rack and ruin left, Azotus stormed ere the day is out, root and branch destroyed is Accaron! (Zephaniah 2, 4)