他使君王蒙羞被辱，使他们在荒废无路之地漂流。

他使贵族蒙羞受辱，使他们迷失在荒凉无路之地；

他使贵族蒙羞受辱，使他们迷失在荒凉无路之地；

祂使贵族蒙羞受辱，漂流在荒芜之地。

他使权贵受羞辱，使他们在荒废无路的地方飘流。

神使权贵受到藐视，使他们在无路可走的荒凉之地漂流。

他使君王蒙羞被辱，使他們在荒廢無路之地漂流。

他使貴族蒙羞受辱，使他們迷失在荒涼無路之地；

他使貴族蒙羞受辱，使他們迷失在荒涼無路之地；

祂使貴族蒙羞受辱，漂流在荒蕪之地。

他使權貴受羞辱，使他們在荒廢無路的地方飄流。

他向王子身上傾倒下侮辱，使他在荒蕪沒路之地漂流無定。

神使權貴受到藐視，使他們在無路可走的荒涼之地漂流。

彼加凌辱於君王、使其流離於野、無路可循兮、

民牧則黜其位、流亡於野、在人跡不至之所兮、

主乃使君王極被藐視、在無路之曠野、流徙飄蕩、

憎彼侯王。黜之遐荒。遐荒無路。四顧茫茫。寖削寖弱。淪胥以亡。

he who pours contempt on nobles made them wander in a trackless waste.

The God who looks down on proud nobles made them wander in a desert where no one lives.

he pours contempt on princes and makes them wander in trackless wastes;

the Lord pours contempt on their princes, causing them to wander in trackless wastelands.

he pours contempt on nobles and makes them wander in a trackless wasteland.

He pours contempt upon noblemen And makes them wander in a pathless wasteland.

He pours contempt on princes, And causes them to wander in the wilderness where there is no way;

He poureth contempt upon princes, And causeth them to wander in the waste, where there is no way.

He pours contempt on nobles and makes them wander in a trackless wasteland.

He poureth contempt upon princes, and causeth them to wander in the wilderness,[ where there is] no way.

He would pour contempt upon princes, and he made them wander in a wasteland with no road.

He pours contempt on princes, and causes them to wander in a trackless waste.

He deprives the leaders of the earth of their reason; he makes them wander in a trackless waste. (niv)

He pours contempt on nobles and disarms the mighty. (niv)

When they had brought these kings to Joshua, he summoned all the men of Israel and said to the army commanders who had come with him,“ Come here and put your feet on the necks of these kings.” So they came forward and placed their feet on their necks.Joshua said to them,“ Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged. Be strong and courageous. This is what the Lord will do to all the enemies you are going to fight.”Then Joshua put the kings to death and exposed their bodies on five poles, and they were left hanging on the poles until evening. (niv)

Some wandered in desert wastelands, finding no way to a city where they could settle. (niv)

The Nile will teem with frogs. They will come up into your palace and your bedroom and onto your bed, into the houses of your officials and on your people, and into your ovens and kneading troughs. (niv)

The Philistines asked,“ What guilt offering should we send to him?” They replied,“ Five gold tumors and five gold rats, according to the number of the Philistine rulers, because the same plague has struck both you and your rulers. (niv)

He beat back his enemies; he put them to everlasting shame. (niv)

Hear and pay attention, do not be arrogant, for the Lord has spoken.Give glory to the Lord your God before he brings the darkness, before your feet stumble on the darkening hills. You hope for light, but he will turn it to utter darkness and change it to deep gloom.If you do not listen, I will weep in secret because of your pride; my eyes will weep bitterly, overflowing with tears, because the Lord’s flock will be taken captive.Say to the king and to the queen mother,“ Come down from your thrones, for your glorious crowns will fall from your heads.” (niv)

“ Your Majesty, the Most High God gave your father Nebuchadnezzar sovereignty and greatness and glory and splendor.Because of the high position he gave him, all the nations and peoples of every language dreaded and feared him. Those the king wanted to put to death, he put to death; those he wanted to spare, he spared; those he wanted to promote, he promoted; and those he wanted to humble, he humbled.But when his heart became arrogant and hardened with pride, he was deposed from his royal throne and stripped of his glory.He was driven away from people and given the mind of an animal; he lived with the wild donkeys and ate grass like the ox; and his body was drenched with the dew of heaven, until he acknowledged that the Most High God is sovereign over all kingdoms on earth and sets over them anyone he wishes.“ But you, Belshazzar, his son, have not humbled yourself, though you knew all this.Instead, you have set yourself up against the Lord of heaven. You had the goblets from his temple brought to you, and you and your nobles, your wives and your concubines drank wine from them. You praised the gods of silver and gold, of bronze, iron, wood and stone, which cannot see or hear or understand. But you did not honor the God who holds in his hand your life and all your ways.Therefore he sent the hand that wrote the inscription.“ This is the inscription that was written: mene, mene, tekel, parsin“ Here is what these words mean: Mene: God has numbered the days of your reign and brought it to an end.Tekel: You have been weighed on the scales and found wanting.Peres: Your kingdom is divided and given to the Medes and Persians.”Then at Belshazzar’s command, Daniel was clothed in purple, a gold chain was placed around his neck, and he was proclaimed the third highest ruler in the kingdom.That very night Belshazzar, king of the Babylonians, was slain, (niv)

But Jael, Heber’s wife, picked up a tent peg and a hammer and went quietly to him while he lay fast asleep, exhausted. She drove the peg through his temple into the ground, and he died. (niv)

Suddenly the fingers of a human hand appeared and wrote on the plaster of the wall, near the lampstand in the royal palace. The king watched the hand as it wrote.His face turned pale and he was so frightened that his legs became weak and his knees were knocking. (niv)

But when they went out to bury her, they found nothing except her skull, her feet and her hands.They went back and told Jehu, who said,“ This is the word of the Lord that he spoke through his servant Elijah the Tishbite: On the plot of ground at Jezreel dogs will devour Jezebel’s flesh.Jezebel’s body will be like dung on the ground in the plot at Jezreel, so that no one will be able to say,‘ This is Jezebel.’” (niv)

Adoni-Bezek fled, but they chased him and caught him, and cut off his thumbs and big toes.Then Adoni-Bezek said,“ Seventy kings with their thumbs and big toes cut off have picked up scraps under my table. Now God has paid me back for what I did to them.” They brought him to Jerusalem, and he died there. (niv)

In a desert land he found him, in a barren and howling waste. He shielded him and cared for him; he guarded him as the apple of his eye, (niv)

But after they had moved it, the Lord’s hand was against that city, throwing it into a great panic. He afflicted the people of the city, both young and old, with an outbreak of tumors. (niv)

Immediately, because Herod did not give praise to God, an angel of the Lord struck him down, and he was eaten by worms and died. (niv)

so that you may eat the flesh of kings, generals, and the mighty, of horses and their riders, and the flesh of all people, free and slave, great and small.” (niv)

Say to him,‘ This is what the Lord says: Have you not murdered a man and seized his property?’ Then say to him,‘ This is what the Lord says: In the place where dogs licked up Naboth’s blood, dogs will lick up your blood— yes, yours!’” (niv)

They did this, and when Aaron stretched out his hand with the staff and struck the dust of the ground, gnats came on people and animals. All the dust throughout the land of Egypt became gnats. (niv)

Immediately what had been said about Nebuchadnezzar was fulfilled. He was driven away from people and ate grass like the ox. His body was drenched with the dew of heaven until his hair grew like the feathers of an eagle and his nails like the claws of a bird. (niv)

And the Lord did this. Dense swarms of flies poured into Pharaoh’s palace and into the houses of his officials; throughout Egypt the land was ruined by the flies. (niv)

Who planned this against Tyre, the bestower of crowns, whose merchants are princes, whose traders are renowned in the earth?The Lord Almighty planned it, to bring down her pride in all her splendor and to humble all who are renowned on the earth. (niv)