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Best matchBook of Enoch 90:2–4
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2 And after that I saw in my vision all the birds of heaven coming, the eagles, the vultures, the kites, the ravens; but the eagles led all the birds; and they began to devour those sheep, and to pick out their eyes and to devour their flesh. (ENO) 3 And the sheep cried out because their flesh was being devoured by the birds, and as for me I looked and lamented in my sleep over that shepherd who pastured the sheep. (ENO) 4 And I saw until those sheep were devoured by the dogs and eagles and kites, and they left neither flesh nor skin nor sinew remaining on them till only their bones stood there: and their bones too fell to the earth and the sheep became few. (ENO)
Book of Enoch 89:54–65
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54 And after that I saw that when they forsook the house of the Lord and His tower they fell away entirely, and their eyes were blinded; and I saw the Lord of the sheep how He wrought much slaughter amongst them in their herds until those sheep invited that slaughter and betrayed His place. (ENO) 55 And He gave them over into the hands of the lions and tigers, and wolves and hyenas, and into the hand of the foxes, and to all the wild beasts, and those wild beasts began to tear in pieces those sheep. (ENO) 56 And I saw that He forsook that their house and their tower and gave them all into the hand of the lions, to tear and devour them, into the hand of all the wild beasts. (ENO) 57 And I began to cry aloud with all my power, and to appeal to the Lord of the sheep, and to represent to Him in regard to the sheep that they were devoured by all the wild beasts. (ENO) 58 But He remained unmoved, though He saw it, and rejoiced that they were devoured and swallowed and robbed, and left them to be devoured in the hand of all the beasts. (ENO) 59 And He called seventy shepherds, and cast those sheep to them that they might pasture them, and He spake to the shepherds and their companions: ‘Let each individual of you pasture the sheep henceforward, and everything that I shall command you that do ye. (ENO) 60 And I will deliver them over unto you duly numbered, and tell you which of them are to be destroyed—and them destroy ye.’ And He gave over unto… (ENO)
Job 18:12–14
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12 His strength is depleted, and calamity is ready at his side. 13 It devours patches of his skin; the firstborn of death devours his limbs. 14 He is torn from the shelter of his tent and is marched off to the king of terrors.
2 Esdras 11:31–35
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31 Behold, the head turned with those who were with it, and ate the two under wings that planned to reign. (WEB) 32 But this head held the whole earth in possession, and ruled over those who dwell in it with much oppression. It had stronger governance over the world than all the wings that had gone before. (WEB) 33 After this I saw, and behold, the head also that was in the middle suddenly disappeared, like the wings. (WEB) 34 But the two heads remained, which also reigned the same way over the earth and over those who dwell in it. (WEB) 35 I saw, and behold, the head on the right side devoured the one that was on the left side. (WEB)
2 Esdras 15:57–62
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57 Your children will die of hunger. You will fall by the sword. Your cities will be broken down, and all your people in the field will perish by the sword. (WEB) 58 Those who are in the mountains will die of hunger, eat their own flesh, and drink their own blood, because of hunger for bread and thirst for water. (WEB) 59 You, unhappy above all others, will come and will again receive evils. (WEB) 60 In the passage, they will rush on the hateful city and will destroy some portion of your land, and mar part of your glory, and will return again to Babylon that was destroyed. (WEB) 61 You will be cast down by them as stubble, and they will be to you as fire. (WEB) 62 They will devour you, your cities, your land, and your mountains. They will burn all your forests and your fruitful trees with fire. (WEB)
Jeremiah 51:33–44
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33 For this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: “The Daughter of Babylon is like a threshing floor at the time it is trampled. In just a little while her harvest time will come.” 34 “Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has devoured me; he has crushed me. He has set me aside like an empty vessel; he has swallowed me like a monster; he filled his belly with my delicacies and vomited me out. 35 May the violence done to me and to my flesh be upon Babylon,” says the dweller of Zion. “May my blood be on the dwellers of Chaldea,” says Jerusalem. 36 Therefore this is what the LORD says: “Behold, I will plead your case and take vengeance on your behalf; I will dry up her sea and make her springs run dry. 37 Babylon will become a heap of rubble, a haunt for jackals, an object of horror and scorn, without inhabitant. 38 They will roar together like young lions; they will growl like lion cubs. 39 While they are flushed with heat, I will serve them a feast, and I will make them drunk so that they may revel; then they will fall asleep forever and never wake up, declares the LORD. 40 I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with male goats. 41 How Sheshach has been captured! The praise of all the earth has been seized. What a horror Babylon has become among the nations! 42 The sea has come up over Babylon; she is covered in turbulent waves. 43 Her cities have become a desolation, a dry and arid land, a…
Greek Daniel 14:37–42
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37 Habakkuk cried, saying, “O Daniel, Daniel, take the dinner which God has sent you.” (WEB) 38 Daniel said, “You have remembered me, O God! You haven’t forsaken those who love you!” (WEB) 39 So Daniel arose and ate; and the angel of God set Habakkuk in his own place again immediately. (WEB) 40 On the seventh day, the king came to mourn for Daniel. When he came to the den, he looked in, and, behold, Daniel was sitting. (WEB) 41 Then the king cried with a loud voice, saying, “Great are you, O Lord, you God of Daniel, and there is none other beside you!” (WEB) 42 So he drew him out, and cast those that were the cause of his destruction into the den; and they were devoured in a moment before his face. (WEB)
Bel and the Dragon 1:39–42
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39 So Daniel arose, and did eat: and the angel of the Lord set Habbacuc in his own place again immediately. (KJV) 40 Upon the seventh day the king went to bewail Daniel: and when he came to the den, he looked in, and behold, Daniel was sitting. (KJV) 41 Then cried the king with a loud voice, saying, Great art thou, O Lord God of Daniel, and there is none other beside thee. (KJV) 42 And he drew him out, and cast those that were the cause of his destruction into the den: and they were devoured in a moment before his face. (KJV)
Job 20:12–23
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12 Though evil is sweet in his mouth and he conceals it under his tongue, 13 though he cannot bear to let it go and keeps it in his mouth, 14 yet in his stomach his food sours into the venom of cobras within him. 15 He swallows wealth but vomits it out; God will force it from his stomach. 16 He will suck the poison of cobras; the fangs of a viper will kill him. 17 He will not enjoy the streams, the rivers flowing with honey and cream. 18 He must return the fruit of his labor without consuming it; he cannot enjoy the profits of his trading. 19 For he has oppressed and forsaken the poor; he has seized houses he did not build. 20 Because his appetite is never satisfied, he cannot escape with his treasure. 21 Nothing is left for him to consume; thus his prosperity will not endure. 22 In the midst of his plenty, he will be distressed; the full force of misery will come upon him. 23 When he has filled his stomach, God will vent His fury upon him, raining it down on him as he eats.
Book of Enoch 89:66–70
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66 And the lions and tigers eat and devoured the greater part of those sheep, and the wild boars eat along with them; and they burnt that tower and demolished that house. (ENO) 67 And I became exceedingly sorrowful over that tower because that house of the sheep was demolished, and afterwards I was unable to see if those sheep entered that house. (ENO) 68 And the shepherds and their associates delivered over those sheep to all the wild beasts, to devour them, and each one of them received in his time a definite number: it was written by the other in a book how many each one of them destroyed of them. (ENO) 69 And each one slew and destroyed many more than was prescribed; and I began to weep and lament on account of those sheep. (ENO) 70 And thus in the vision I saw that one who wrote, how he wrote down every one that was destroyed by those shepherds, day by day, and carried up and laid down and showed actually the whole book to the Lord of the sheep—(even) everything that they had done, and all that each one of them had made away with, and all that they had given over to destruction. (ENO)