20 “Jehovah will send upon you the curse,+ confusion+ and rebuke+ in every undertaking of yours that you try to carry out, until you have been annihilated and have perished in a hurry, because of the badness of your practices in that you have forsaken me.+

20 At that Saul quickly fell down his full length to the earth and became very much afraid because of “Samuel’s” words. Also, there happened to be no power in him, because he had not eaten food the whole day and the whole night.

24 The thing frightful to the wicked one—that is what will come to him;+ but the desire of the righteous ones will be granted.+

21 There is no peace,” my God* has said, “for the wicked ones.”+