Jeremiah 46:6

Neither the swift nor the mighty can escape; they stumble and fall by the Euphrates. Egypt's flight ends in defeat at Carchemish.

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• Dan 11:19After this, he will turn back toward the fortresses of his own land, but he will stumble and fall and be no more.
• Jer 46:12The nations have heard of your shame, and your outcry fills the earth, because warrior stumbles over warrior and both of them have fallen together.”
• Amos 9:1–3I saw the Lord standing beside the altar, and He said: “Strike the tops of the pillars so that the thresholds shake. Topple them on the heads of all the people, and I will kill the rest with the sword. None of those who flee will get away; none of the fugitives will escape.
• Jer 20:11But the LORD is with me like a fearsome warrior. Therefore, my persecutors will stumble and will not prevail. Since they have not succeeded, they will be utterly put to shame, with an everlasting disgrace that will never be forgotten.
• Jer 4:6Raise a signal flag toward Zion. Seek refuge! Do not delay! For I am bringing disaster from the north, and terrible destruction.
• Ps 27:2When the wicked came upon me to devour my flesh, my enemies and foes stumbled and fell.
• Isa 8:15Many will stumble over these; they will fall and be broken; they will be ensnared and captured.”
• Isa 30:16–17“No,” you say, “we will flee on horses.” Therefore you will flee! “We will ride swift horses,” but your pursuers will be faster.
• Ps 33:16–17No king is saved by his vast army; no warrior is delivered by his great strength.
• Jer 6:1“Run for cover, O sons of Benjamin; flee from Jerusalem! Sound the ram’s horn in Tekoa; send up a signal over Beth-haccherem, for disaster looms from the north, even great destruction.
• Judg 4:15–21And in front of him the LORD routed with the sword Sisera, all his charioteers, and all his army. Sisera abandoned his chariot and fled on foot.
• Jer 25:9behold, I will summon all the families of the north, declares the LORD, and I will send for My servant Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, whom I will bring against this land, against its residents, and against all the surrounding nations. So I will devote them to destruction and make them an object of horror and contempt, an everlasting desolation.
• Jer 46:10For that day belongs to the Lord GOD of Hosts, a day of vengeance against His foes. The sword will devour until it is satisfied, until it is quenched with their blood. For the Lord GOD of Hosts will hold a sacrifice in the land of the north by the River Euphrates.
• Eccl 9:11I saw something else under the sun: The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong; neither is the bread to the wise, nor the wealth to the intelligent, nor the favor to the skillful. For time and chance happen to all.
• Ps 147:10–11He does not delight in the strength of the horse; He takes no pleasure in the legpower of the man.
• Amos 2:14–15Escape will fail the swift, the strong will not prevail by his strength, and the mighty will not save his life.
• Jer 46:16They continue to stumble; indeed, they have fallen over one another. They say, ‘Get up! Let us return to our people and to the land of our birth, away from the sword of the oppressor.’
• Jer 50:32The arrogant one will stumble and fall with no one to pick him up. And I will kindle a fire in his cities to consume all those around him.”
• Jer 1:14Then the LORD said to me, “Disaster from the north will be poured out on all who live in the land.
• Dan 11:22Then a flood of forces will be swept away before him and destroyed, along with a prince of the covenant.

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