6. Lord, you have left your people,the family of Jacob.They have become filled with wrong ideas from people in the East.Your people try to tell the future like the Philistines.They have completely accepted those foreign ideas.
7. Their land has been filled with silver and gold.There are a great many treasures there.Their land has been filled with horses.There are many chariots there.
8. Their land is full of idols.The people worship these idols that they made with their own hands.They worship statues shaped by their fingers.
9. People will not be proud any longer.They will bow low with shame.God, do not forgive them.
10. Go into the caves of the cliffs.Dig holes and hide in the ground.Hide from the anger of the Lordand from his great power!
11. Proud people will stop being proud.They will bow low with shame.At that time only the Lord will still be praised.
12. The Lord of heaven’s armies has a certain day planned.On that day he will punish the proud and those who brag.They will no longer be important.
13. He will bring down the tall cedar trees from Lebanon.He will destroy the great oak trees of Bashan.
14. He will destroy all the tall mountainsand the high hills.
15. He will knock down every tall towerand every high, strong wall.
16. He will sink all the trading ships.And he will destroy the beautiful ships.
17. At that time proud people will stop being proud.They will bow low with shame.And at that time only the Lord will be praised.