'Sweeps' in the Bible
Because of all this, I am about to bring disaster on the house of Jeroboam:I will eliminate all of Jeroboam’s males,both slave and free, in Israel;I will sweep away the house of Jeroboamas one sweeps away dung until it is all gone!
“If God passes by or arrests,Or calls an assembly [of judgment], who can restrain Him?[If He is against a man, who can call Him to account for it?]
Are they like straw before the wind,like chaff a storm sweeps away?
Terrors overtake him like a flood;a storm wind sweeps him away at night.
The east wind carries him away, and he is gone; it sweeps him out of his place.
I have sunk in deep mud, and there is no footing;I have come into deep waters,and a flood sweeps over me.
An abundance of food is in poor people's fields, but injustice sweeps it away.
The violence of the wicked sweeps them awaybecause they refuse to act justly.
"I will turn her into a place that is overrun with wild animals and covered with pools of stagnant water. I will get rid of her, just as one sweeps away dirt with a broom," says the Lord who commands armies.
For you say, "We have made a treaty with death, with Sheol we have made an agreement. When the overwhelming judgment sweeps by it will not reach us. For we have made a lie our refuge, we have hidden ourselves in a deceitful word."
"Then your covenant with death will be annulled, and your agreement with Sheol will not stand; when the overwhelming scourge sweeps by, you will be trampled by it.
As often as it sweeps through, it will carry you away, for it will sweep by morning after morning in the day; but understanding this message will bring sheer terror at night,
No sooner are they planted, no sooner are they sown, no sooner have their stems taken root in the earth, than he blows on them, and they wither, and the tempest sweeps them away like stubble.
but there is one who hears the sound of the trumpet yet does not heed the warning. Then the sword comes and sweeps him away. He will be responsible for his own death.
Then he sweeps by like the wind, and goes on. He is indeed guilty, whose strength is his god."
The mountains see You and shudder;a downpour of water sweeps by.The deep roars with its voiceand lifts its waves high.
"Or suppose a woman has ten coins and loses one of them. She lights a lamp, sweeps the house, and searches carefully until she finds it, doesn't she?