Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.

Their widows are increased to me above the sand of the seas: I have brought upon them against the mother of the young men a spoiler at noonday: I have caused {him} to fall upon it suddenly, and terrors upon the city. {the mother...: or, the mother city a young man spoiling, etc, or, the mother and the young men}

The fire consumed their young men; and their maidens were not given to marriage. {given...: Heb. praised}

Who knoweth the power of thine anger? even according to thy fear, {so is} thy wrath.

Pour out thine indignation upon them, and let thy wrathful anger take hold of them.

We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers {are} as widows.

Thou, {even} thou, {art} to be feared: and who may stand in thy sight when once thou art angry?

Give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom. For with the same measure that ye mete withal it shall be measured to you again.

Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and pour out their {blood} by the force of the sword; and let their wives be bereaved of their children, and {be} widows; and let their men be put to death; {let} their young men {be} slain by the sword in battle. {pour...: Heb. pour them out}

For destruction {from} God {was} a terror to me, and by reason of his highness I could not endure.

This {is} the portion of a wicked man with God, and the heritage of oppressors, {which} they shall receive of the Almighty.

But after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God;

Who can stand before his indignation? and who can abide in the fierceness of his anger? his fury is poured out like fire, and the rocks are thrown down by him. {abide: Heb. stand up}

{It is} a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.

Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.

Now therefore let me alone, that my wrath may wax hot against them, and that I may consume them: and I will make of thee a great nation.

We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers {are} as widows.

Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and pour out their {blood} by the force of the sword; and let their wives be bereaved of their children, and {be} widows; and let their men be put to death; {let} their young men {be} slain by the sword in battle. {pour...: Heb. pour them out}

Thou shalt not defraud thy neighbour, neither rob {him}: the wages of him that is hired shall not abide with thee all night until the morning.

Therefore the anger of the LORD was hot against Israel, and he sold them into the hand of Chushanrishathaim king of Mesopotamia: and the children of Israel served Chushanrishathaim eight years. {Mesopotamia: Heb. Aramnaharaim}