Psalms 144:14
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Our oxen will bear great loads. There will be no breach in the walls, no going into captivity, and no cry of lament in our streets.
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The LORD will cause the enemies who rise up against you to be defeated before you. They will march out against you in one direction but flee from you in seven.
When the Israelites along the valley and those on the other side of the Jordan saw that the army of Israel had fled and that Saul and his sons had died, they abandoned their cities and ran away. So the Philistines came and occupied their cities.
In the streets they cry out for wine. All joy turns to gloom; rejoicing is exiled from the land.
Israel was greatly impoverished by Midian, and the Israelites cried out to the LORD.
When they chose new gods, then war came to their gates. Not a shield or spear was found among forty thousand in Israel.
The LORD will cause you to be defeated before your enemies. You will march out against them in one direction but flee from them in seven. You will be an object of horror to all the kingdoms of the earth.
If I go out to the country, I see those slain by the sword; if I enter the city, I see those ravaged by famine! For both prophet and priest travel to a land they do not know.’”
“Judah mourns and her gates languish. Her people wail for the land, and a cry goes up from Jerusalem.
Whenever the Israelites would plant their crops, the Midianites, Amalekites, and other people of the east would come up and invade them,