Psalm 76:5
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5 The courageous were stripped of their spoil;
they sank into sleep;
none of the troops
was able to lift a hand.(A)
Isaiah 13:7
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7 Therefore all hands will be feeble,
and every human heart will melt,(A)
Isaiah 13:8
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8 and they will be terrified.
Pangs and agony will seize them;
they will be in anguish like a woman in labor.
They will look aghast at one another;
their faces will be aflame.(A)
Jeremiah 50:36
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36 A sword against the diviners,
so that they may become fools!
A sword against her warriors,
so that they may be dismayed!(A)
Jeremiah 50:37
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37 A sword against her[a] horses and against her[b] chariots
and against all the foreign troops in her midst,
so that they may become women!
A sword against her treasures,
that they may be plundered!(A)
Lamentations 2:9
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9 Her gates have sunk into the ground;
he has ruined and broken her bars;
her king and princes are among the nations;
guidance is no more,
and her prophets obtain
no vision from the Lord.(A)
Amos 1:5
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5 I will break the gate bars of Damascus
and cut off the inhabitants from the Valley of Aven
and the one who holds the scepter from Beth-eden,
and the people of Aram shall go into exile to Kir,
says the Lord.(A)
Nahum 3:13
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13 Look at your troops:
they are women in your midst.
The gates of your land
are wide open to your foes;
fire has devoured the bars of your gates.(A)
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