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  • Genesis 12:2
    I will make you a great nation;
    I will bless you
    And make your name great;
    And you shall be a blessing.
     
  • Genesis 16:1
    Now Sarai, Abram’s wife, had borne him no children. And she had an Egyptian maidservant whose name was Hagar.
     
  • Genesis 16:11-12
    And the Angel of the LORD said to her:
    “ Behold, you are with child,
    And you shall bear a son.
    You shall call his name Ishmael,
    Because the LORD has heard your affliction. He shall be a wild man;
    His hand shall be against every man,
    And every man’s hand against him.
    And he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.”
     
  • Genesis 17:5
    No longer shall your name be called Abram, but your name shall be Abraham; for I have made you a father of many nations.
     
  • Genesis 21:21
    He dwelt in the Wilderness of Paran; and his mother took a wife for him from the land of Egypt.
     
  • Genesis 25:23
    And the LORD said to her:
    “Two nations are in your womb,
    Two peoples shall be separated from your body;
    One people shall be stronger than the other,
    And the older shall serve the younger.”
     
  • Genesis 36:2-3
    Esau took his wives from the daughters of Canaan: Adah the daughter of Elon the Hittite; Aholibamah the daughter of Anah, the daughter of Zibeon the Hivite; and Basemath, Ishmael’s daughter, sister of Nebajoth.
     
  • Genesis 36:11-12
    And the sons of Eliphaz were Teman, Omar, Zepho, Gatam, and Kenaz. Now Timna was the concubine of Eliphaz, Esau’s son, and she bore Amalek to Eliphaz. These were the sons of Adah, Esau’s wife.
     
  • Genesis 48:19
    But his father refused and said, 'I know, my son, I know. He also shall become a people, and he also shall be great; but truly his younger brother shall be greater than he, and his descendants shall become a multitude of nations.'
     
  • Genesis 49:1
    And Jacob called his sons and said, “Gather together, that I may tell you what shall befall you in the last days:
     
  • Exodus 17:8
    Now Amalek came and fought with Israel in Rephidim.
     
  • Exodus 17:13-16
    So Joshua defeated Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword. Then the LORD said to Moses, “Write this for a memorial in the book and recount it in the hearing of Joshua, that I will utterly blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven.” And Moses built an altar and called its name, The-LORD-Is-My-Banner; for he said, "Because the LORD has sworn: the LORD will have war with Amalek from generation to generation."
     
  • Numbers 24:18
    'And Edom shall be a possession;
    Seir also, his enemies, shall be a possession,
    While Israel does valiantly.
     
  • Deuteronomy 2:12
    The Horites formerly dwelt in Seir, but the descendants of Esau dispossessed them and destroyed them from before them, and dwelt in their place, just as Israel did to the land of their possession which the LORD gave them.)
     
  • Deuteronomy 7:1-11
    'When the LORD your God brings you into the land which you go to possess, and has cast out many nations before you, the Hittites and the Girgashites and the Amorites and the Canaanites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and mightier than you, and when the LORD your God delivers them over to you, you shall conquer them and utterly destroy them. You shall make no covenant with them nor show mercy to them. Nor shall you make marriages with them. You shall not give your daughter to their son, nor take their daughter for your son. For they will turn your sons away from following Me, to serve other gods; so the anger of the LORD will be aroused against you and destroy you suddenly. But thus you shall deal with them: you shall destroy their altars, and break down their sacred pillars, and cut down their wooden images, and burn their carved images with fire. "For you are a holy people to the LORD your God; the LORD your God has chosen you to be a people for Himself, a special treasure above all the peoples on the face of the earth. The LORD did not set His love on you nor choose you because you were more in number than any other people, for you were the least of all peoples; but because the LORD loves you, and because He would keep the oath which He swore to your fathers, the LORD has brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you from the house of bondage, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt. "Therefore know that the LORD your God, He is God, the faithful God who keeps covenant and mercy for a thousand generations with those who love Him and keep His commandments; and He repays those who hate Him to their face, to destroy them. He will not be slack with him who hates Him; He will repay him to his face. Therefore you shall keep the commandment, the statutes, and the judgments which I command you today, to observe them.
     
  • Deuteronomy 25:17-19
    “Remember what Amalek did to you on the way as you were coming out of Egypt, how he met you on the way and attacked your rear ranks, all the stragglers at your rear, when you were tired and weary; and he did not fear God. Therefore it shall be, when the LORD your God has given you rest from your enemies all around, in the land which the LORD your God is giving you to possess as an inheritance, that you will blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven. You shall not forget.

     
  • Deuteronomy 28:43-49
    “The alien who is among you shall rise higher and higher above you, and you shall come down lower and lower. He shall lend to you, but you shall not lend to him; he shall be the head, and you shall be the tail. “Moreover all these curses shall come upon you and pursue and overtake you, until you are destroyed, because you did not obey the voice of the LORD your God, to keep His commandments and His statutes which He commanded you. And they shall be upon you for a sign and a wonder, and on your descendants forever. “Because you did not serve the LORD your God with joy and gladness of heart, for the abundance of everything, therefore you shall serve your enemies, whom the LORD will send against you, in hunger, in thirst, in nakedness, and in need of everything; and He will put a yoke of iron on your neck until He has destroyed you. The LORD will bring a nation against you from afar, from the end of the earth, as swift as the eagle flies, a nation whose language you will not understand,
     
  • Deuteronomy 32:7-9
    " Remember the days of old,
    Consider the years of many generations.
    Ask your father, and he will show you;
    Your elders, and they will tell you: When the Most High divided their inheritance to the nations,
    When He separated the sons of Adam,
    He set the boundaries of the peoples
    According to the number of the children of Israel. For the LORD's portion is His people;
    Jacob is the place of His inheritance.
     
  • Judges 5:31
    “Thus let all Your enemies perish, O LORD!
    But let those who love Him be like the sun
    When it comes out in full strength.” So the land had rest for forty years.
     
  • Judges 6:2-6
    and the hand of Midian prevailed against Israel. Because of the Midianites, the children of Israel made for themselves the dens, the caves, and the strongholds which are in the mountains. So it was, whenever Israel had sown, Midianites would come up; also Amalekites and the people of the East would come up against them. Then they would encamp against them and destroy the produce of the earth as far as Gaza, and leave no sustenance for Israel, neither sheep nor ox nor donkey. For they would come up with their livestock and their tents, coming in as numerous as locusts; both they and their camels were without number; and they would enter the land to destroy it. So Israel was greatly impoverished because of the Midianites, and the children of Israel cried out to the LORD.
     
  • 1 Samuel 15:2-3
    Thus says the LORD of hosts: ‘I will punish Amalek for what he did to Israel, how he ambushed him on the way when he came up from Egypt. Now go and attack Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and do not spare them. But kill both man and woman, infant and nursing child, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.’”
     
  • 2 Chronicles 16:9
    For the eyes of the LORD run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to show Himself strong on behalf of those whose heart is loyal to Him. In this you have done foolishly; therefore from now on you shall have wars.'
     
  • Esther 3:1
    After these things King Ahasuerus promoted Haman, the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, and advanced him and set his seat above all the princes who were with him.
     
  • Psalm 83:5-8
    For they have consulted together with one consent;
    They form a confederacy against You:
    The tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites;
    Moab and the Hagrites;
    Gebal, Ammon, and Amalek;
    Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre;
    Assyria also has joined with them;
    They have helped the children of Lot. Selah
     
  • Psalm 91:1
    He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High
    Shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.

     
  • Psalm 91:3
    Surely He shall deliver you from the snare of the fowler
    And from the perilous pestilence.

     
  • Psalm 118:8-9
    It is better to trust in the LORD
    Than to put confidence in man.
    It is better to trust in the LORD
    Than to put confidence in princes.
     
  • Psalm 146:3
    Do not put your trust in princes,
    Nor in a son of man, in whom there is no help.

     
  • Proverbs 11:29
    He who troubles his own house will inherit the wind,
    And the fool will be servant to the wise of heart.

     
  • Proverbs 12:24
    The hand of the diligent will rule,
    But the lazy man will be put to forced labor.

     
  • Proverbs 18:9
    He who is slothful in his work
    Is a brother to him who is a great destroyer.

     
  • Proverbs 22:3
    A prudent man foresees evil and hides himself,
    But the simple pass on and are punished.

     
  • Proverbs 22:7
    The rich rules over the poor,
    And the borrower is servant to the lender.

     
  • Proverbs 27:22-27
    Though you grind a fool in a mortar with a pestle along with crushed grain,
    Yet his foolishness will not depart from him.
    Be diligent to know the state of your flocks,
    And attend to your herds;
    For riches are not forever,
    Nor does a crown endure to all generations.
    When the hay is removed, and the tender grass shows itself,
    And the herbs of the mountains are gathered in,
    The lambs will provide your clothing,
    And the goats the price of a field;
    You shall have enough goats’ milk for your food,
    For the food of your household,
    And the nourishment of your maidservants.
     
  • Isaiah 10:5-13
    “ Woe to Assyria, the rod of My anger
    And the staff in whose hand is My indignation.
    I will send him against an ungodly nation,
    And against the people of My wrath
    I will give him charge,
    To seize the spoil, to take the prey,
    And to tread them down like the mire of the streets.
    Yet he does not mean so,
    Nor does his heart think so;
    But it is in his heart to destroy,
    And cut off not a few nations.
    For he says,
    Are not my princes altogether kings?
    Is not Calno like Carchemish?
    Is not Hamath like Arpad?
    Is not Samaria like Damascus?
    As my hand has found the kingdoms of the idols,
    Whose carved images excelled those of Jerusalem and Samaria,
    As I have done to Samaria and her idols,
    Shall I not do also to Jerusalem and her idols?’” Therefore it shall come to pass, when the Lord has performed all His work on Mount Zion and on Jerusalem, that He will say, “I will punish the fruit of the arrogant heart of the king of Assyria, and the glory of his haughty looks.” For he says:
    “ By the strength of my hand I have done it,
    And by my wisdom, for I am prudent;
    Also I have removed the boundaries of the people,
    And have robbed their treasuries;
    So I have put down the inhabitants like a valiant man.

     
  • Isaiah 14:12-15
    "How you are fallen from heaven,
    O Lucifer, son of the morning!
    How you are cut down to the ground,
    You who weakened the nations!
    For you have said in your heart:
    'I will ascend into heaven,
    I will exalt my throne above the stars of God;
    I will also sit on the mount of the congregation
    On the farthest sides of the north;
    I will ascend above the heights of the clouds,
    I will be like the Most High.'
    Yet you shall be brought down to Sheol,
    To the lowest depths of the Pit.

     
  • Isaiah 21:11-12
    The burden against Dumah.
    He calls to me out of Seir,
    “ Watchman, what of the night?
    Watchman, what of the night?”
    The watchman said,
    “ The morning comes, and also the night.
    If you will inquire, inquire;
    Return! Come back!”
     
  • Isaiah 28:1-3
    Woe to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim,
    Whose glorious beauty is a fading flower
    Which is at the head of the verdant valleys,
    To those who are overcome with wine!
    Behold, the Lord has a mighty and strong one,
    Like a tempest of hail and a destroying storm,
    Like a flood of mighty waters overflowing,
    Who will bring them down to the earth with His hand.
    The crown of pride, the drunkards of Ephraim,
    Will be trampled underfoot;

     
  • Isaiah 30:1-3
    "Woe to the rebellious children," says the LORD, "Who take counsel, but not of Me,
    And who devise plans, but not of My Spirit,
    That they may add sin to sin;
    Who walk to go down to Egypt,
    And have not asked My advice,
    To strengthen themselves in the strength of Pharaoh,
    And to trust in the shadow of Egypt!
    Therefore the strength of Pharaoh
    Shall be your shame,
    And trust in the shadow of Egypt
    Shall be your humiliation.

     
  • Isaiah 34:5-7
    “ For My sword shall be bathed in heaven;
    Indeed it shall come down on Edom,
    And on the people of My curse, for judgment.
    The sword of the LORD is filled with blood,
    It is made overflowing with fatness,
    With the blood of lambs and goats,
    With the fat of the kidneys of rams.
    For the LORD has a sacrifice in Bozrah,
    And a great slaughter in the land of Edom.
    The wild oxen shall come down with them,
    And the young bulls with the mighty bulls;
    Their land shall be soaked with blood,
    And their dust saturated with fatness.”

     
  • Isaiah 41:11
    ' Behold, all those who were incensed against you
    Shall be ashamed and disgraced;
    They shall be as nothing,
    And those who strive with you shall perish.

     
  • Jeremiah 46:25
    The LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, says: “Behold, I will bring punishment on Amon of No, and Pharaoh and Egypt, with their gods and their kings—Pharaoh and those who trust in him.
     
  • Jeremiah 49:7-22
    Against Edom. Thus says the LORD of hosts:
    Is wisdom no more in Teman?
    Has counsel perished from the prudent?
    Has their wisdom vanished?
    Flee, turn back, dwell in the depths, O inhabitants of Dedan!
    For I will bring the calamity of Esau upon him,
    The time that I will punish him.
    If grape-gatherers came to you,
    Would they not leave some gleaning grapes?
    If thieves by night,
    Would they not destroy until they have enough?
    But I have made Esau bare;
    I have uncovered his secret places,
    And he shall not be able to hide himself.
    His descendants are plundered,
    His brethren and his neighbors,
    And he is no more.
    Leave your fatherless children,
    I will preserve them alive;
    And let your widows trust in Me.” For thus says the LORD: “Behold, those whose judgment was not to drink of the cup have assuredly drunk. And are you the one who will altogether go unpunished? You shall not go unpunished, but you shall surely drink of it. For I have sworn by Myself,” says the LORD, “that Bozrah shall become a desolation, a reproach, a waste, and a curse. And all its cities shall be perpetual wastes.”
    I have heard a message from the LORD,
    And an ambassador has been sent to the nations:
    "Gather together, come against her,
    And rise up to battle!
    "For indeed, I will make you small among nations,
    Despised among men.
    Your fierceness has deceived you,
    The pride of your heart,
    O you who dwell in the clefts of the rock,
    Who hold the height of the hill!
    Though you make your nest as high as the eagle,
    I will bring you down from there,” says the LORD.
    “ Edom also shall be an astonishment;
    Everyone who goes by it will be astonished
    And will hiss at all its plagues.
    As in the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah
    And their neighbors,” says the LORD,
    “ No one shall remain there,
    Nor shall a son of man dwell in it.
    “ Behold, he shall come up like a lion from the floodplain of the Jordan
    Against the dwelling place of the strong;
    But I will suddenly make him run away from her.
    And who is a chosen man that I may appoint over her?
    For who is like Me?
    Who will arraign Me?
    And who is that shepherd
    Who will withstand Me?”
    Therefore hear the counsel of the LORD that He has taken against Edom,
    And His purposes that He has proposed against the inhabitants of Teman:
    Surely the least of the flock shall draw them out;
    Surely He shall make their dwelling places desolate with them.
    The earth shakes at the noise of their fall;
    At the cry its noise is heard at the Red Sea.
    Behold, He shall come up and fly like the eagle,
    And spread His wings over Bozrah;
    The heart of the mighty men of Edom in that day shall be
    Like the heart of a woman in birth pangs.
     
  • Jeremiah 51:44-46
    I will punish Bel in Babylon,
    And I will bring out of his mouth what he has swallowed;
    And the nations shall not stream to him anymore.
    Yes, the wall of Babylon shall fall.
    “ My people, go out of the midst of her!
    And let everyone deliver himself from the fierce anger of the LORD.
    And lest your heart faint,
    And you fear for the rumor that will be heard in the land
    (A rumor will come one year,
    And after that, in another year
    A rumor will come,
    And violence in the land,
    Ruler against ruler),

     
  • Lamentations 4:21-22
    Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Edom,
    You who dwell in the land of Uz!
    The cup shall also pass over to you
    And you shall become drunk and make yourself naked.
    The punishment of your iniquity is accomplished,
    O daughter of Zion;
    He will no longer send you into captivity.
    He will punish your iniquity,
    O daughter of Edom;
    He will uncover your sins!
     
  • Ezekiel 25:12-14
    ‘Thus says the Lord GOD: “Because of what Edom did against the house of Judah by taking vengeance, and has greatly offended by avenging itself on them,” therefore thus says the Lord GOD: “I will also stretch out My hand against Edom, cut off man and beast from it, and make it desolate from Teman; Dedan shall fall by the sword. I will lay My vengeance on Edom by the hand of My people Israel, that they may do in Edom according to My anger and according to My fury; and they shall know My vengeance,” says the Lord GOD.
     
  • Ezekiel 28:17
    "Your heart was lifted up because of your beauty;
    You corrupted your wisdom for the sake of your splendor;
    I cast you to the ground,
    I laid you before kings,
    That they might gaze at you.

     
  • Ezekiel 35:1-15
    Moreover the word of the LORD came to me, saying, “Son of man, set your face against Mount Seir and prophesy against it, and say to it, ‘Thus says the Lord GOD:
    “ Behold, O Mount Seir, I am against you;
    I will stretch out My hand against you,
    And make you most desolate;
    I shall lay your cities waste,
    And you shall be desolate.
    Then you shall know that I am the LORD. “Because you have had an ancient hatred, and have shed the blood of the children of Israel by the power of the sword at the time of their calamity, when their iniquity came to an end, therefore, as I live,” says the Lord GOD, “I will prepare you for blood, and blood shall pursue you; since you have not hated blood, therefore blood shall pursue you. Thus I will make Mount Seir most desolate, and cut off from it the one who leaves and the one who returns. And I will fill its mountains with the slain; on your hills and in your valleys and in all your ravines those who are slain by the sword shall fall. I will make you perpetually desolate, and your cities shall be uninhabited; then you shall know that I am the LORD. “Because you have said, ‘These two nations and these two countries shall be mine, and we will possess them,’ although the LORD was there, therefore, as I live,” says the Lord GOD, “I will do according to your anger and according to the envy which you showed in your hatred against them; and I will make Myself known among them when I judge you. Then you shall know that I am the LORD. I have heard all your blasphemies which you have spoken against the mountains of Israel, saying, ‘They are desolate; they are given to us to consume.’ Thus with your mouth you have boasted against Me and multiplied your words against Me; I have heard them.” ‘Thus says the Lord GOD: “The whole earth will rejoice when I make you desolate. As you rejoiced because the inheritance of the house of Israel was desolate, so I will do to you; you shall be desolate, O Mount Seir, as well as all of Edom—all of it! Then they shall know that I am the LORD.”’

     
  • Daniel 11:40-41
    "At the time of the end the king of the South shall attack him; and the king of the North shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall enter the countries, overwhelm them, and pass through. He shall also enter the Glorious Land, and many countries shall be overthrown; but these shall escape from his hand: Edom, Moab, and the prominent people of Ammon.
     
  • Joel 3:19
    “ Egypt shall be a desolation,
    And Edom a desolate wilderness,
    Because of violence against the people of Judah,
    For they have shed innocent blood in their land.

     
  • Amos 1:11
    Thus says the LORD:
    " For three transgressions of Edom, and for four,
    I will not turn away its punishment,
    Because he pursued his brother with the sword,
    And cast off all pity;
    His anger tore perpetually,
    And he kept his wrath forever.

     
  • Habakkuk 3:3
    God came from Teman,
    The Holy One from Mount Paran. Selah
    His glory covered the heavens,
    And the earth was full of His praise.

     
  • Malachi 1:2-5
    ' I have loved you,' says the LORD.
    ' Yet you say, 'In what way have You loved us?'
    Wasnot Esau Jacob's brother?'
    Says the LORD.
    ' Yet Jacob I have loved;
    But Esau I have hated,
    And laid waste his mountains and his heritage
    For the jackals of the wilderness.”
    Even though Edom has said,
    “ We have been impoverished,
    But we will return and build the desolate places,” Thus says the LORD of hosts:
    “ They may build, but I will throw down;
    They shall be called the Territory of Wickedness,
    And the people against whom the LORD will have indignation forever.
    Your eyes shall see,
    And you shall say,
    ‘ The LORD is magnified beyond the border of Israel.’
     
  • Matthew 10:27-31
    "Whatever I tell you in the dark, speak in the light; and what you hear in the ear, preach on the housetops. And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. But rather fear Him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. Are not two sparrows sold for a copper coin? And not one of them falls to the ground apart from your Father's will. But the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Do not fear therefore; you are of more value than many sparrows.
     
  • Acts 17:24-26
    God, who made the world and everything in it, since He is Lord of heaven and earth, does not dwell in temples made with hands. Nor is He worshiped with men’s hands, as though He needed anything, since He gives to all life, breath, and all things. And He has made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the face of the earth, and has determined their preappointed times and the boundaries of their dwellings,
     
  • Romans 11:34
    'For who has known the mind of the LORD?
    Or who has become His counselor?'

     
  • Romans 15:30-31
    Now I beg you, brethren, through the Lord Jesus Christ, and through the love of the Spirit, that you strive together with me in prayers to God for me, that I may be delivered from those in Judea who do not believe, and that my service for Jerusalem may be acceptable to the saints,
     
  • 2 Corinthians 6:11
    O Corinthians! We have spoken openly to you, our heart is wide open.
     
  • 2 Corinthians 6:14-18
    Do not be unequally yoked together with unbelievers. For what fellowship has righteousness with lawlessness? And what communion has light with darkness? And what accord has Christ with Belial? Or what part has a believer with an unbeliever? And what agreement has the temple of God with idols? For you are the temple of the living God. As God has said:
    "I will dwell in them
    And walk among them.
    I will be their God,
    And they shall be My people."
    Therefore "Come out from among them
    And be separate, says the Lord.
    Do not touch what is unclean,
    And I will receive you."
    "I will be a Father to you,
    And you shall be My sons and daughters,
    Says the LORD Almighty."
     
  • Philippians 2:3
    Let nothing be done through selfish ambition or conceit, but in lowliness of mind let each esteem others better than himself.
     
  • Philippians 3:20-21
    For our citizenship is in heaven, from which we also eagerly wait for the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, who will transform our lowly body that it may be conformed to His glorious body, according to the working by which He is able even to subdue all things to Himself.
     
  • 2 Thessalonians 3:1-3
    Finally, brethren, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may run swiftly and be glorified, just as it is with you, and that we may be delivered from unreasonable and wicked men; for not all have faith. But the Lord is faithful, who will establish you and guard you from the evil one.
     
  • 1 Timothy 2:1-3
    Therefore I exhort first of all that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks be made for all men, for kings and all who are in authority, that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and reverence. For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior,
     
  • 2 Timothy 3:1
    But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come:
     
  • 2 Timothy 3:11
    persecutions, afflictions, which happened to me at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra—what persecutions I endured. And out of them all the Lord delivered me.
     
  • 2 Timothy 3:13
    But evil men and impostors will grow worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived.
     
  • 2 Timothy 4:7
    I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.
     
  • Revelation 18:3
    For all the nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth have become rich through the abundance of her luxury."
     
  • Revelation 18:9-19
    "The kings of the earth who committed fornication and lived luxuriously with her will weep and lament for her, when they see the smoke of her burning, standing at a distance for fear of her torment, saying, "Alas, alas, that great city Babylon, that mighty city! For in one hour your judgment has come." "And the merchants of the earth will weep and mourn over her, for no one buys their merchandise anymore: merchandise of gold and silver, precious stones and pearls, fine linen and purple, silk and scarlet, every kind of citron wood, every kind of object of ivory, every kind of object of most precious wood, bronze, iron, and marble; and cinnamon and incense, fragrant oil and frankincense, wine and oil, fine flour and wheat, cattle and sheep, horses and chariots, and bodies and souls of men. The fruit that your soul longed for has gone from you, and all the things which are rich and splendid have gone from you, and you shall find them no more at all. The merchants of these things, who became rich by her, will stand at a distance for fear of her torment, weeping and wailing, and saying, 'Alas, alas, that great city that was clothed in fine linen, purple, and scarlet, and adorned with gold and precious stones and pearls! For in one hour such great riches came to nothing.' Every shipmaster, all who travel by ship, sailors, and as many as trade on the sea, stood at a distance and cried out when they saw the smoke of her burning, saying, 'What is like this great city?' "They threw dust on their heads and cried out, weeping and wailing, and saying, 'Alas, alas, that great city, in which all who had ships on the sea became rich by her wealth! For in one hour she is made desolate.'