And I will have a fire lighted on the wall of Damascus, burning up the great houses of Ben-hadad.
And their camels will be taken from them by force, and their great herds will come into the hands of their attackers: those who have the ends of their hair cut I will send in flight to all the winds; and I will send their fate on them from every side, says the Lord.
There is a sound of war in the land and of great destruction.
See, a people is coming from the north; a great nation and a number of kings will be put in motion from the inmost parts of the earth.
For see, I am moving and sending up against Babylon a band of great nations from the north country: and they will put their armies in position against her; and from there she will be taken: their arrows will be like those of an expert man of war; not one will come back without getting its mark.
O you whose living-place is by the wide waters, whose stores are great, your end is come, your evil profit is ended.
There is the sound of a cry from Babylon, and of a great destruction from the land of the Chaldaeans:
For the Lord is making Babylon waste, and putting an end to the great voice coming out of her; and her waves are thundering like great waters, their voice is sounding loud:
And he had the house of the Lord and the king's house and all the houses of Jerusalem, even every great house, burned with fire:
And the brass pillars which were in the house of the Lord, and the wheeled bases and the great brass water-vessel in the house of the Lord, were broken up by the Chaldaeans, who took all the brass away to Babylon.
The two pillars, the great water-vessel, and the twelve brass oxen which were under it, and the ten wheeled bases, which King Solomon had made for the house of the Lord: the brass of all these vessels was without weight.
As the fowl-house is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: for this reason they have become great and have got wealth.
I will go to the great men and have talk with them; for they have knowledge of the way of the Lord and of the behaviour desired by their God. But as for these, their one purpose is a broken yoke and burst bands.
And so a lion from the woods will put them to death, a wolf of the waste land will make them waste, a leopard will keep watch on their towns, and everyone who goes out from them will be food for the beasts; because of the great number of their sins and the increase of their wrongdoing.
Go in flight out of Jerusalem, so that you may be safe, you children of Benjamin, and let the horn be sounded in Tekoa, and the flag be lifted up on Beth-haccherem: for evil is looking out from the north, and a great destruction.
The Lord has said, See, a people is coming from the north country, a great nation will be put in motion from the inmost parts of the earth.
Up! let us go up by night, and send destruction on her great houses.
We were looking for peace, but no good came; and for a time of well-being, but there is only a great fear.
For death has come up into our windows, forcing its way into our great houses; cutting off the children in the streets and the young men in the wide places.
When a great wind came rushing from the waste land against the four sides of the house, and it came down on the young men, and they are dead; and I was the only one who got away safe to give you the news.
And of cattle he had seven thousand sheep and goats, and three thousand camels, and a thousand oxen, and five hundred she-asses, and a very great number of servants. And the man was greater than any of the sons of the east.
If you make yourselves great against me, using my punishment as an argument against me,
Even when his wealth is great, he is full of care, for the hand of everyone who is in trouble is turned against him.
And they took their seats on the earth by his side for seven days and seven nights: but no one said a word to him, for they saw that his pain was very great.
Is not your evil-doing great? and there is no end to your sins.
Would he make use of his great power to overcome me? No, but he would give attention to me.
Though he may get silver together like dust, and make ready great stores of clothing;
It may not be valued with the gold of Ophir, with the onyx of great price, or the sapphire.
The great beasts have not gone over it, and the cruel lion has not taken that way.
By me the great teeth of the evil-doer were broken, and I made him give up what he had violently taken away.
With great force he takes a grip of my clothing, pulling me by the neck of my coat.
If I was glad because my wealth was great, and because my hand had got together a great store;
For fear of the great body of people, or for fear that families might make sport of me, so that I kept quiet, and did not go out of my door;
With kings and the wise ones of the earth, who put up great houses for themselves;
The small and the great are there, and the servant is free from his master.
Who are glad with great joy, and full of delight when they come to their last resting-place;
If you have done wrong, is he any the worse for it? and if your sins are great in number, what is it to him?
Truly, God is great, greater than all our knowledge; the number of his years may not be searched out.
There is no searching out of the Ruler of all: his strength and his judging are great; he is full of righteousness, doing no wrong.
He does wonders, more than may be searched out; great things of which we have no knowledge;
No doubt you have knowledge of it, for then you had come to birth, and the number of your days is great.
Will you put your faith in him, because his strength is great? will you give the fruit of your work into his care?
See now the Great Beast, whom I made, even as I made you; he takes grass for food, like the ox.
You will be certain that your seed will be great, and your offspring like the plants of the earth.
Who does great things outside our knowledge, wonders without number:
What is man, that you have made him great, and that your attention is fixed on him,
And though your start was small, your end will be very great.
Who does great things not to be searched out; yes, wonders without number.
He is wise in heart and great in strength: who ever made his face hard against him, and any good came of it?
For a nation has come up over my land, strong and without number; his teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he has the back teeth of a great lion.
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