All around them terror is waiting; it follows them at every step.

The kings gathered together and came to attack Mount Zion.

There they were seized with fear and anguish, like a woman about to bear a child,

"Kings and their armies are running away!" The women at home divided what was captured:

The LORD controls the mind of a king as easily as he directs the course of a stream.

The wicked run when no one is chasing them, but an honest person is as brave as a lion.

Not a town will escape the destruction; both valley and plain will be ruined. I, the LORD, have spoken.

Set up a tombstone for Moab; it will soon be destroyed. Its towns will be left in ruins, and no one will live there again."

Some trust in their war chariots and others in their horses, but we trust in the power of the LORD our God.

Such people will stumble and fall, but we will rise and stand firm.

War horses are useless for victory; their great strength cannot save.

Not even fast runners will escape; strong men will lose their strength, and soldiers will not be able to save their own lives.

On that day even the bravest soldiers will drop their weapons and run." The LORD has spoken.

you are to choose cities of refuge to which any of you can escape if you kill someone accidentally.

There you will be safe from the dead person's relative who seeks revenge. No one accused of manslaughter is to be put to death without a public trial.

Get out of the trap like a bird or a deer escaping from a hunter.

When that day comes, they will throw away the gold and silver idols they have made, and abandon them to the moles and the bats.

"Then those who are in Judea must run away to the hills.

Someone who is in the field must not go back to get a cloak.

There are these two things, then, that cannot change and about which God cannot lie. So we who have found safety with him are greatly encouraged to hold firmly to the hope placed before us.