7. You who live on the earth,you are finally caught in your own trap!The time has come; the day draws near.On the hills panic, not glory.
8. And now it’s near!Against you I will pour out my wrath,and my anger will be satisfied.I’ll judge you according to your ways,and turn all your detestable practices against you.
9. I won’t shed a tear or show any pitywhen I turn your ways against you,and your detestable practices stay with you.Then you will know that I, the Lord, am the one who strikes you!
10. Look, the day! Look, it comes!Doom has arrived! The staff blossoms, and pride springs up!
11. Violence rises up as a wicked master.It isn’t from others or their armies or their violence.It hasn’t loomed up because of them.
12. The time is coming! The day draws near!No buyer should rejoice, and no seller should mourn,because wrath overcomes the whole crowd.
13. The seller will never get back what was sold,even if both of them survive.The vision concerns the whole crowd.It won’t be revoked.And the guilty ones—they won’t even be able to hang on to their lives.
14. They have blown the horn,and everything is ready, but no one goes to battle,because my wrath overcomes the whole crowd.
15. Outside, the sword! Inside, plague and famine!Whoever is out in the field will die by the sword.Whoever is in the city,plague and famine will consume them.
16. And those who flee?They will turn up on the hills like valley doves,all of them moaning, those guilty ones.
17. Every hand will hang limp;urine will run down every leg.
18. They will put on mourning clothes,and horror will cover them.On every face, shame;on all their heads, baldness.