I will fill those who are left in the land of their enemies with despair. The sound of a windblown leaf will make them run. They will run away and fall, but no one will be chasing them.

Jehovah made the Syrians hear what sounded like the advance of a large army with horses and chariots. The Syrians thought that the king of Israel had hired Hittite and Egyptian kings and their armies to attack them.

I also will laugh at your trouble. I will mock when your fear comes.

In prosperity

One day when Job's children were having a feast at the home of their oldest brother,

The success of the wicked is brief and the joy of the godless lasts but a moment.

I will fill those who are left in the land of their enemies with despair. The sound of a windblown leaf will make them run. They will run away and fall, but no one will be chasing them.

When Abigail came to Nabal, he was holding a banquet in his home. It was like a king's banquet. He was in a good mood and very drunk, so she did not tell him anything until dawn.

Surely you set them in slippery places. You threw them down into destruction.

Wicked people sprout like grass and all troublemakers flourish. Yet they will be destroyed forever.

Dressed in royal apparel, Herod delivered a public address to the people on a special day.

When they say, Peace and security! then sudden destruction will come upon them, as labor pains come to a pregnant woman. They will not escape.

The destroyer

Do not grumble like some of them grumbled. Venomous snakes killed them.

The angel of the bottomless pit was their king. His name in the Hebrew language is Abaddon, and in Greek, Apollyon.

General references

There is no peace for the wicked, says Jehovah.