'Swept' in the Bible
When morning dawned, the angels urged Lot, saying, “Up, take your wife and your two daughters who are here, or you will be swept away in the punishment of the city.”
When they had brought them outside, one said, “Escape for your life! Do not look behind you, and do not stay anywhere in the valley; escape to the mountains, or you will be swept away.”
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 he spoke to the congregation, saying, “Depart now from the tents of these wicked men, and touch nothing that belongs to them, or you will be swept away in all their sin.”
“The torrent of Kishon swept them away,The ancient torrent, the torrent Kishon.O my soul, march on with strength.
But if you still do wickedly, both you and your king will be swept away.”
either three years of famine, or three months to be swept away before your foes, while the sword of your enemies overtakes you, or else three days of the sword of the Lord, even pestilence in the land, and the angel of the Lord destroying throughout all the territory of Israel.’ Now, therefore, consider what answer I shall return to Him who sent me.”
How they are destroyed in a moment!They are utterly swept away by sudden terrors!
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 stream would have swept over our soul;
Then the raging waters would have swept over our soul.”
Abundant food is in the fallow ground of the poor,But it is swept away by injustice.
The mountains saw You and quaked;The downpour of waters swept by.The deep uttered forth its voice,It lifted high its hands.
Then it says, ‘I will return to my house from which I came’; and when it comes, it finds it unoccupied, swept, and put in order.
And his tail *swept away a third of the stars of heaven and threw them to the earth. And the dragon stood before the woman who was about to give birth, so that when she gave 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.