'Swept' in the Bible

At daybreak the angels urged Lot on: “Get up! Take your wife and your two daughters who are here, or you will be swept away in the punishment of the city.”

As soon as the angels got them outside, one of them said, “Run for your lives! Don’t look back and don’t stop anywhere on the plain! Run to the mountains, or you will be swept away!”

Later on, a famine swept through the land. This famine was different from the previous famine that had occurred earlier, during Abraham's lifetime. So Isaac went to Abimelech, king of the Philistines, at Gerar.

Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the Lord swept the sea back by a strong east wind all night and turned the sea into dry land, so the waters were divided.

And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and the sea returned {at daybreak} to its normal level, and [the] Egyptians [were] fleeing {because of it}, and Yahweh swept [the] Egyptians into the middle of the sea.

He warned the community, “Get away now from the tents of these wicked men. Don’t touch anything that belongs to them, or you will be swept away because of all their sins.”

The river of Kishon swept them away, that ancient river, the river Kishon. O my soul, thou hast trodden down strength.

The Spirit of the LORD came on Jephthah, so he swept through Gilead and the territory of Manasseh, then swept through Mizpah in Gilead, and from Mizpah in Gilead he proceeded toward where the Ammonites were encamped.

However, if you continue to do what is evil, both you and your king will be swept away.”

David went on to say, "As the Lord lives, the Lord himself will strike him down. Either his day will come and he will die, or he will go down into battle and be swept away.

David said to himself, “One of these days I’ll be swept away by Saul. There is nothing better for me than to escape immediately to the land of the Philistines. Then Saul will stop searching for me everywhere in Israel, and I’ll escape from him.”

Either three years of famine, or three months of reversals as you are swept away by your enemies while the sword of your enemies overtakes you, or three days with the sword of the LORD, consisting of pestilence infecting the land, with the angel of the LORD wreaking destruction from border to border throughout all of Israel.' Decide right now what I am to answer to the one who sent me."

They attacked Judah and swept through it. They carried off everything they found in the royal palace, including his sons and wives. None of his sons was left, except for his youngest, Ahaziah.

While he was still speaking, there came also another, and said, "The Chaldeans made three bands, and swept down on the camels, and have taken them away, yes, and killed the servants with the edge of the sword; and I alone have escaped to tell you."

“He will not escape from darkness [fleeing disaster];The flame [of God’s wrath] will wither his branch,And by the blast of His mouth he will go away.

May they become like a straw, blown away before the wind; like a chaff that's swept off by a storm.

who were snatched away before their time; when their foundation was swept away by a river?

He'll be swept up by a storm wind and carried away; he'll be whirled away from his place.

Now men cannot even look at the sunwhen it is in the skies,after a wind has swept through and cleared them away.

From the radiance of His presence,His clouds swept onward with hail and blazing coals.

Deep calls to deep in the roar of Your waterfalls;all Your breakers and Your billows have swept over me.

How suddenly they become a desolation!They come to an end, swept away by terrors.

Your fierce wrath has swept over me;Your terrors have destroyed me.

You have swept them away like a flood, they fall asleep;In the morning they are like grass which sprouts anew.

Then the waters would have engulfed us;the torrent would have swept over us;

the raging waters would have swept over us.

When the storm passes through, the wicked are swept away, but the righteous are an everlasting foundation.

The uncultivated field of the poor yields abundant food,but without justice, it is swept away.

I've been swept bare until morning; just like a lion, he breaks all my bones day and night you make an end of me.

I have swept away your transgressions like a cloud,and your sins like a mist.Return to Me,for I have redeemed you.

And now says the Lord, who formed Me from the womb to be His Servant,To bring Jacob back to Him and that Israel might be gathered to Him,—For I am honored in the eyes of the Lord,And My God is My strength—

The righteous one perishes,and no one takes it to heart;faithful men are swept away,with no one realizingthat the righteous one is swept awayfrom the presence of evil.

How long will the land mournand the grass of every field wither?Because of the evil of its residents,animals and birds have been swept away,for the people have said,“He cannot see what our end will be.”

Therefore give up their children to the famine, and deliver them over to the power of the sword; and let their wives be bereaved of children and be widows; and let their men be swept off by death, their young men be smitten by the sword in battle.

Why are thy valiant men swept away? they stood not, because the LORD did drive them.

The sea has swept over Babylon. She has been covered by a multitude of its waves.

For this sword has been tested [on others]; and what if it views with contempt the scepter [of Judah]? The scepter shall be no more [but shall be swept away],” says the Lord God.

But suppose the watchman sees the sword coming and does not blow the trumpet to warn the people. Then the sword comes and takes one of their lives. He is swept away for his iniquity, but I will hold the watchman accountable for that person's death.'

A flood of forces will be swept away before him; they will be shattered, as well as the covenant prince.

Those who eat his provisions will destroy him; his army will be swept away, and many will fall slain.

Therefore the land mourns, and all [those] living in it languish with the animals of the field, and the birds of the heaven, and even the fish of the sea are being swept away.

I will destroy both the winter and summer houses. The houses filled with ivory will be ruined, the great houses will be swept away." The Lord is speaking!

You threw me into the depths,into the heart of the seas,and the current overcame me.All Your breakers and Your billows swept over me.

The mountains saw You and quaked;The downpour of waters swept by.The deep uttered forth its voice,It lifted high its hands.

Then he saith, I will return into my house from whence I came out; and when he is come, he findeth it empty, swept, and garnished.

They didn’t know until the flood came and swept them all away. So this is the way the coming of the Son of Man will be:

Now as they were sailing, Jesus fell asleep. A violent storm swept over the lake, and they were taking on water and were in great danger.

And when he cometh, he findeth it swept and garnished.

Then the Pharisees said to them, “Have you also been deluded and swept off your feet?

But it was not long before a violent wind (called a northeaster) swept down from the island.

The ship was caught so that it couldn't face the wind, and we gave up and were swept along.

These men are hidden reefs [elements of great danger to others] in your love feasts when they feast together with you without fear, looking after [only] themselves; [they are like] clouds without water, swept along by the winds; autumn trees without fruit, doubly dead, uprooted and lifeless;

His tail swept away a third of the stars in heaven and hurled them to the earth. And the dragon stood in front of the woman who was about to give birth, so that when she did give birth he might devour her child.

And the serpent poured water like a river out of his mouth after the woman, so that he might cause her to be swept away with the flood.