Quotes About Chaos

The LORD has poured into her a spirit of confusion. Egypt has been led astray in all she does, as a drunkard staggers through his own vomit.

Behold, the LORD lays waste the earth and leaves it in ruins. He will twist its surface and scatter its inhabitants—

The city of chaos is shattered; every house is closed to entry.

The earth is utterly broken apart, the earth is split open, the earth is shaken violently.

Your spoil, O nations, is gathered as by locusts; like a swarm of locusts men sweep over it.

The desert owl and screech owl will possess it, and the great owl and raven will dwell in it. The LORD will stretch out over Edom a measuring line of chaos and a plumb line of destruction.

Behold, I have created the craftsman who fans the coals into flame and forges a weapon fit for its task; and I have created the destroyer to wreak havoc.

But the wicked are like the storm-tossed sea, for it cannot be still, and its waves churn up mire and muck.

Behold, he advances like the clouds, his chariots like the whirlwind. His horses are swifter than eagles. Woe to us, for we are ruined!

I looked at the earth, and it was formless and void; I looked to the heavens, and they had no light.

Every city flees at the sound of the horseman and archer. They enter the thickets and climb among the rocks. Every city is abandoned; no inhabitant is left.

I will appoint over them four kinds of destroyers, declares the LORD: the sword to kill, the dogs to drag away, and the birds of the air and beasts of the earth to devour and destroy.

And they will drink and stagger and go out of their minds, because of the sword that I will send among them.”

This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Behold! Disaster is spreading from nation to nation; a mighty storm is rising from the ends of the earth.”

Who is this, rising like the Nile, like rivers whose waters churn?

Egypt rises like the Nile, and its waters churn like rivers, boasting, ëI will rise and cover the earth; I will destroy the cities and their people.í

They will take their tents and flocks, their tent curtains and all their goods. They will take their camels for themselves. They will shout to them: ëTerror is on every side!í

“The noise of battle is in the land—the noise of great destruction.

At the sound of Babylonís capture the earth will quake; a cry will be heard among the nations.

I will send strangers to Babylon to winnow her and empty her land; for they will come against her from every side in her day of disaster.

The fords have been seized, the marshes set on fire, and the soldiers are terrified.”

Babylon will become a heap of rubble, a haunt for jackals, an object of horror and scorn, without inhabitant.

The sea has come up over Babylon; she is covered in turbulent waves.

“The sound of a cry comes from Babylon, the sound of great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans!