Quotes About Chaos

Terrors overtake him like a flood; a tempest sweeps him away in the night.

They advance as through a wide breach; through the ruins they keep rolling in.

You snatch me up into the wind and drive me before it; You toss me about in the storm.

Firebrands stream from his mouth; fiery sparks shoot forth!

His breath sets coals ablaze, and flames pour from his mouth.

When Leviathan rises up, the mighty are terrified; they withdraw before his thrashing.

His undersides are jagged potsherds, spreading out the mud like a threshing sledge.

He makes the depths seethe like a cauldron; he makes the sea like a jar of ointment.

The cords of death encompassed me; the torrents of chaos overwhelmed me.

though their waters roar and foam and the mountains quake in the surge. Selah

Nations rage, kingdoms crumble; the earth melts when He lifts His voice.

How suddenly they are laid waste, completely swept away by terrors!

like men wielding axes in a thicket of trees

They do not know or understand; they wander in the darkness; all the foundations of the earth are shaken.

Make them like tumbleweed, O my God, like chaff before the wind.

The floodwaters have risen, O LORD; the rivers have raised their voice; the seas lift up their pounding waves.

Their land teemed with frogs, even in their royal chambers.

He spoke, and the locusts came—young locusts without number.

They reeled and staggered like drunkards, and all their skill was useless.

Like a madman shooting firebrands and deadly arrows,

A land in rebellion has many rulers, but a man of understanding and knowledge maintains order.

A man will seize his brother within his fatherís house: “You have a cloak—you be our leader! Take charge of this heap of rubble.”

Hyenas will howl in her fortresses and jackals in her luxurious palaces. Babylonís time is at hand, and her days will not be prolonged.

“So I will incite Egyptian against Egyptian; brother will fight against brother, neighbor against neighbor, city against city, and kingdom against kingdom.