Swept

At daybreak the angels hurried Lot along, saying, “Get up! Take your wife and your two daughters who are here, or you will be swept away in the punishment of the city.”

As soon as the men had brought them out, one of them said, “Run for your lives! Do not look back, and do not stop anywhere on the plain! Flee to the mountains, or you will be swept away!”

So Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and at daybreak the sea returned to its normal state. As the Egyptians were retreating, the LORD swept them into the sea.

And he warned the congregation, “Move away now from the tents of these wicked men. Do not touch anything that belongs to them, or you will be swept away because of all their sins.”

The River Kishon swept them away, the ancient river, the River Kishon. March on, O my soul, in strength!

But if you persist in doing evil, both you and your king will be swept away.”

David, however, said to himself, “One of these days now I will be swept away by the hand of Saul. There is nothing better for me than to escape to the land of the Philistines. Then Saul will stop searching for me all over Israel, and I will slip out of his hand.”

…between three years of famine, three months of being swept away before your enemies and overtaken by their swords, or three days of the sword of the LORD—days of plague upon the land, with the angel of the LORD ravaging every part of Israel.’ Now then, decide how I should reply to Him who sent me.”

…when suddenly a mighty wind swept in from the desert and struck the four corners of the house. It collapsed on the young people and they are dead, and I alone have escaped to tell you!”

Are they like straw before the wind, like chaff swept away by a storm?

They were snatched away before their time, and their foundations were swept away by a flood.

Now no one can gaze at the sun when it is bright in the skies after the wind has swept them clean.

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

Your wrath has swept over me; Your terrors have destroyed me.

…then the raging waters would have swept us away.

…but swept Pharaoh and his army into the Red Sea. His loving devotion endures forever.

Abundant food is in the fallow ground of the poor, but without justice it is swept away.

How long will the land mourn and the grass of every field be withered? Because of the evil of its residents, the animals and birds have been swept away, for the people have said, “He cannot see what our end will be.”

Then a flood of forces will be swept away before him and destroyed, along with a prince of the covenant.

Those who eat from his provisions will seek to destroy him; his army will be swept away, and many will fall slain.

For You cast me into the deep, into the heart of the seas, and the current swirled about me; all Your breakers and waves swept over me.

The mountains saw You and quaked; torrents of water swept by. The deep roared with its voice and lifted its hands on high.

Then it says, ‘I will return to the house I left.’ On its return, it finds the house vacant, swept clean, and put in order.

And they were oblivious until the flood came and swept them all away. So will it be at the coming of the Son of Man.

But I tell you truthfully that there were many widows in Israel in the time of Elijah, when the sky was shut for three and a half years and great famine swept over all the land.

A sense of awe swept over all of them, and they glorified God. “A great prophet has appeared among us!” they said. “God has visited His people!”

On its return, it finds the house swept clean and put in order.

After he had spent all he had, a severe famine swept through that country, and he began to be in need.

Then famine and great suffering swept across Egypt and Canaan, and our fathers could not find food.

But it was not long before a cyclone called the Northeaster swept down across the island.

His tail swept a third of the stars from the sky, hurling them to the earth. And the dragon stood before the woman who was about to give birth, ready to devour her child as soon as she gave birth.