²⁰ Fears overtake him like rushing waters; in the night the storm-wind takes him away.

²¹ A sound of fear is in his ears; in time of peace destruction will come on him:

¹¹ He is overcome by fears on every side, they go after him at every step.

³ In my trouble I was crying to the Lord, and he gave me an answer; out of the deepest underworld I sent up a cry, and you gave ear to my voice.

³⁰ That very night Belshazzar, the king of the Chaldaeans, was put to death.

¹⁴ Take me from the grip of the sticky earth, so that I may not go down into it; let me be lifted up from the deep waters.

¹⁵ Let me not be covered by the flowing waters; let not the deep waters go over my head, and let me not be shut up in the underworld.

⁷ Deep is sounding to deep at the noise of your waterfalls; all your waves have gone rolling over me.

⁴ The cords of death were round me, and the seas of evil put me in fear.

²⁰ Suddenly they come to an end, even in the middle of the night: the blow comes on the men of wealth, and they are gone, and the strong are taken away without the hand of man.

¹⁶ Who were violently taken away before their time, who were overcome by the rush of waters:

¹⁸ How frequently are they as dry stems before the wind, or as grass taken away by the storm-wind?

²³ God gives him his desire, and sends the heat of his wrath on him, making it come down on him like rain.

⁸ He is gone like a dream, and is not seen again; he goes in flight like a vision of the night.

³⁵ And that night the angel of the Lord went out and put to death in the army of the Assyrians a hundred and eighty-five thousand men; and when the people got up early in the morning, there was nothing to be seen but dead bodies.

²⁹ And in the middle of the night the Lord sent death on every first male child in the land of Egypt, from the child of Pharaoh on his seat of power to the child of the prisoner in the prison; and the first births of all the cattle.