For the destruction of the daughter of my people I am broken: I am dressed in the clothing of grief; fear has taken me in its grip.

I will make them take the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters for food, they will be making a meal of one another, because of their bitter need and the cruel grip of their haters and those who have made designs against their life.

And the measuring-line will go out in front of it as far as the hill Gareb, going round to Goah.

Damascus has become feeble, she is turned to flight, fear has taken her in its grip: pain and sorrows have come on her, as on a woman in birth-pains.

This is what the Lord of armies has said: The children of Israel and the children of Judah are crushed down together: all those who took them prisoner keep them in a tight grip; they will not let them go.

And the ways across the river have been taken, and the water-holes ... burned with fire, and the men of war are in the grip of fear.