Jeremiah 46:5

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What have I seen? they are overcome with fear and turned back; their men of war are broken and have gone in flight, not looking back: fear is on every side, says the Lord.

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  • Jer 6:25 : 25 Go not out into the field or by the way; for there is the sword of the attacker, and fear on every side.
  • Jer 49:29 : 29 Their tents and their flocks they will take; they will take away for themselves their curtains and all their vessels and their camels: they will give a cry to them, Fear on every side.
  • Jer 46:21 : 21 And those who were her fighters for payment are like fat oxen; for they are turned back, they have gone in flight together, they do not keep their place: for the day of their fate has come on them, the time of their punishment.
  • Gen 19:17 : 17 And when they had put them out, he said, Go for your life, without looking back or waiting in the lowland; go quickly to the mountain or you will come to destruction.
  • 2 Kgs 7:6-7 : 6 For the Lord had made the sound of carriages and horses, and the noise of a great army, come to the ears of the Aramaeans, so that they said to one another, Truly, the king of Israel has got the kings of the Hittites and of the Egyptians for a price to make an attack on us. 7 So they got up and went in flight, in the half light, without their tents or their horses or their asses or any of their goods; they went in flight, fearing for their lives.
  • Isa 19:16 : 16 In that day the Egyptians will be like women: and the land will be shaking with fear because of the waving of the Lord's hand stretched out over it.
  • Ezek 32:10 : 10 And I will make a number of peoples overcome with wonder at you, and their kings will be full of fear because of you, when my sword is waved before them: they will be shaking every minute, every man fearing for his life, in the day of your fall.
  • Nah 2:8 : 8 And the queen is uncovered, she is taken away and her servant-girls are weeping like the sound of doves, hammering on their breasts.
  • Rev 6:15-17 : 15 And the kings of the earth, and the rulers, and the chief captains, and the men of wealth, and the strong, and every servant and free man, took cover in the holes and the rocks of the mountains; 16 And they say to the mountains and to the rocks, Come down on us, covering us from the face of him who is seated on the high seat, and from the wrath of the Lamb: 17 For the great day of their wrath is come, and who may keep his place?
  • Jer 20:3-4 : 3 Then on the day after, Pashhur let Jeremiah loose. Then Jeremiah said to him, The Lord has given you the name of Magor-missabib (Cause-of-fear-on-every-side), not Pashhur. 4 For the Lord has said, See, I will make you a cause of fear to yourself and to all your friends: they will come to their death by the sword of their haters, and your eyes will see it: and I will give all Judah into the hands of the king of Babylon, and he will take them away prisoners into Babylon and put them to the sword.
  • Jer 20:10 : 10 For numbers of them say evil secretly in my hearing (there is fear on every side): they say, Come, let us give witness against him; all my nearest friends, who are watching for my fall, say, It may be that he will be taken by deceit, and we will get the better of him and give him punishment.
  • Jer 46:15 : 15 Why has Apis, your strong one, gone in flight? he was not able to keep his place, because the Lord was forcing him down with strength.

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    6 Let not the quick-footed go in flight, or the man of war get away; on the north, by the river Euphrates, they are slipping and falling.

  • Jer 46:15-16
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    15 Why has Apis, your strong one, gone in flight? he was not able to keep his place, because the Lord was forcing him down with strength.

    16 ... are stopped in their going, they are falling; and they say one to another, Let us get up and go back to our people, to the land of our birth, away from the cruel sword.

  • Jer 47:3
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    3 At the noise of the stamping of the feet of his war-horses, at the rushing of his carriages and the thunder of his wheels, fathers will give no thought to their children, because their hands are feeble;

  • Zech 10:5
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    5 Together they will be like men of war, crushing down their haters into the earth of the streets in the fight; they will make war because the Lord is with them: and the horsemen will be shamed.

  • Amos 2:15-16
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    15 And the bowman will not keep his place; he who is quick-footed will not get away safely: and the horseman will not keep his life.

    16 And he who is without fear among the fighting men will go in flight without his clothing in that day, says the Lord.

  • Isa 30:16-17
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    16 Saying, No, for we will go in flight on horses; so you will certainly go in flight: and, We will go on the backs of quick-running beasts; so those who go after you will be quick-footed.

    17 A thousand will go in fear before one; even before five you will go in flight: till you are like a pillar by itself on the top of a mountain, and like a flag on a hill.

  • Isa 21:15
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    15 For they are in flight from the sharp sword, and the bent bow, and from the trouble of war.

  • Jer 46:4
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    4 Make the horses ready, and get up, you horsemen, and take your places with your head-dresses; make the spears sharp and put on the breastplates.

  • Ps 53:5
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    5 They were in great fear, where there was no cause for fear: for the bones of those who make war on you have been broken by God; you have put them to shame, because God has no desire for them.

  • Jer 30:5
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    5 This is what the Lord has said: A voice of shaking fear has come to our ears, of fear and not of peace.

  • Isa 31:9
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    9 And his rock will come to nothing because of fear, and his chiefs will go in flight from the flag, says the Lord, whose fire is in Zion, and his altar in Jerusalem.

  • Exod 15:15
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    15 The chiefs of Edom were troubled in heart; the strong men of Moab were in the grip of fear: all the people of Canaan became like water.

  • Lev 26:36-37
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    36 And as for the rest of you, I will make their hearts feeble in the land of their haters, and the sound of a leaf moved by the wind will send them in flight, and they will go in flight as from the sword, falling down when no one comes after them;

    37 Falling on one another, as before the sword, when no one comes after them; you will give way before your haters.

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    5 They saw it, and so were full of wonder; they were troubled, and went quickly away in fear.

  • Jer 49:5
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    5 See, I will send fear on you, says the Lord, the Lord of armies, from those who are round you on every side; you will be forced out, every man straight before him, and there will be no one to get together the wanderers.

  • Isa 13:14
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    14 And it will be that, like a roe in flight, and like wandering sheep, they will go every man to his people and to his land.

  • Joel 2:3-5
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    3 Before them fire sends destruction, and after them flame is burning: the land is like the garden of Eden before them, and after them an unpeopled waste; truly, nothing has been kept safe from them.

    4 Their form is like the form of horses, and they are running like war-horses.

    5 Like the sound of war-carriages they go jumping on the tops of the mountains; like the noise of a flame of fire burning up the grain-stems, like a strong people lined up for the fight.

  • Jer 6:23-25
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    23 Bows and spears are in their hands; they are cruel and have no mercy; their voice is like the thunder of the sea, and they go on horses; everyone in his place like men going to the fight, against you, O daughter of Zion.

    24 The news of it has come to our ears; our hands have become feeble: trouble has come on us and pain, like the pain of a woman in childbirth.

    25 Go not out into the field or by the way; for there is the sword of the attacker, and fear on every side.

  • Jer 2:12
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    12 Be full of wonder, O heavens, at this; be overcome with fear, be completely waste, says the Lord.

  • Jer 51:32
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    32 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.

  • Jer 8:5-6
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    5 Why do these people of Jerusalem go back, for ever turning away? they will not give up their deceit, they will not come back.

    6 I took note and gave ear, but no one said what is right: no man had regret for his evil-doing, saying, What have I done? everyone goes off on his way like a horse rushing to the fight.

  • Jer 46:21
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    21 And those who were her fighters for payment are like fat oxen; for they are turned back, they have gone in flight together, they do not keep their place: for the day of their fate has come on them, the time of their punishment.

  • Ps 114:3
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    3 The sea saw it, and went in flight; Jordan was turned back.

  • Jer 4:29
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    29 All the land is in flight because of the noise of the horsemen and the bowmen; they have taken cover in the woodland and up on the rocks: every town has been given up, not a man is living in them.

  • Joel 2:7
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    7 They are running like strong men, they go over the wall like men of war; every man goes straight on his way, their lines are not broken.

  • Isa 41:5
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    5 The sea-lands saw it, and were in fear; the ends of the earth were shaking: they came near.

  • Jer 50:37
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    37 A sword is on all the mixed people in her, and they will become like women: a sword is on her store-houses, and they will be taken by her attackers.

  • Isa 5:28
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    28 Their arrows are sharp, and every bow is bent: the feet of their horses are like rock, and their wheels are like a rushing storm.

  • Isa 31:4
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    8 And so the wrath of the Lord has come on Judah and Jerusalem, and he has given them up to be a cause of fear and wonder and shame, as your eyes have seen.

  • Jer 18:17
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    17 I will send them in flight, as from an east wind, before the attacker; I will let them see my back and not my face on the day of their downfall.

  • Exod 23:27
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    27 I will send my fear before you, putting to flight all the people to whom you come; all those who are against you will go in flight, turning their backs before you.

  • Jer 51:30
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    30 Babylon's men of war have kept back from the fight, waiting in their strong places; their strength has given way, they have become like women: her houses have been put on fire, her locks are broken.

  • Joel 2:10
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    10 The earth is troubled before them and the heavens are shaking: the sun and the moon have become dark, and the stars keep back their shining:

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    8 O Lord, what am I to say now that Israel have given way before their attackers?

  • Josh 8:6
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    4 The body-covers of his fighting men have been made red, the men of war are clothed in bright red: the war-carriages are like flames of fire in the day when he gets ready, the horses are shaking.

  • 2 Kgs 7:7
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    7 So they got up and went in flight, in the half light, without their tents or their horses or their asses or any of their goods; they went in flight, fearing for their lives.