On that night could not the king sleep, and he commanded to bring the book of records of the chronicles; and they were read before the king.
Thus I was; in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep departed from mine eyes.
Woe unto them! for they have fled from me: destruction unto them! because they have transgressed against me: though I have redeemed them, yet they have spoken lies against me.
My God will cast them away, because they did not hearken unto him: and they shall be wanderers among the nations.
But the sons of Belial shall be all of them as thorns thrust away, because they cannot be taken with hands:
And my hand hath found as a nest the riches of the people: and as one gathereth eggs that are left, have I gathered all the earth; and there was none that moved the wing, or opened the mouth, or peeped.
Madmenah is removed; the inhabitants of Gebim gather themselves to flee.
For it shall be, that, as a wandering bird cast out of the nest, so the daughters of Moab shall be at the fords of Arnon.
Take counsel, execute judgment; make thy shadow as the night in the midst of the noonday; hide the outcasts; bewray not him that wandereth.
The inhabitants of the land of Tema brought water to him that was thirsty, they prevented with their bread him that fled.
For they fled from the swords, from the drawn sword, and from the bent bow, and from the grievousness of war.
All thy rulers are fled together, they are bound by the archers: all that are found in thee are bound together, which have fled from far.
At the noise of the tumult the people fled; at the lifting up of thyself the nations were scattered.
I beheld, and, lo, there was no man, and all the birds of the heavens were fled.
For the mountains will I take up a weeping and wailing, and for the habitations of the wilderness a lamentation, because they are burned up, so that none can pass through them; neither can men hear the voice of the cattle; both the fowl of the heavens and the beast are fled; they are gone.
Behold, I will bring a fear upon thee, saith the Lord GOD of hosts, from all those that be about thee; and ye shall be driven out every man right forth; and none shall gather up him that wandereth.
He wandereth abroad for bread, saying, Where is it? he knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.
He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.
He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night.
And it shall come to pass, that all they that look upon thee shall flee from thee, and say, Nineveh is laid waste: who will bemoan her? whence shall I seek comforters for thee?
Thy crowned are as the locusts, and thy captains as the great grasshoppers, which camp in the hedges in the cold day, but when the sun ariseth they flee away, and their place is not known where they are.
As a bird that wandereth from her nest, so is a man that wandereth from his place.
I was a reproach among all mine enemies, but especially among my neighbours, and a fear to mine acquaintance: they that did see me without fled from me.
Lo, then would I wander far off, and remain in the wilderness. Selah.
So they shall make their own tongue to fall upon themselves: all that see them shall flee away.
Kings of armies did flee apace: and she that tarried at home divided the spoil.