6. For wickedness has prevailed over every land, and their hurtful works are come to the full.
7. Therefore says the Lord,
8. I will hold my peace no more as touching their wickedness, which they profanely commit, neither will I suffer them in these things, which they wickedly practise: behold, the innocent and righteous blood cries to me, and the souls of the righteous cry out continually.
9. I will surely avenge them, says the Lord, and will receive to me all the innocent blood from among them.
10. Behold, my people is led as a flock to the slaughter: I will not suffer them now to dwell in the land of Egypt:
11. but I will bring them out with a mighty hand and with a high arm, and will strike Egypt with plagues, as aforetime, and will destroy all the land thereof.
12. Let Egypt mourn, and the foundations thereof, for the plague of the chastisement and the punishment that God shall bring upon it.
13. Let the husbandmen that till the ground mourn: for their seeds shall fail and their trees shall be laid waste through the blasting and hail, and a terrible star.
14. Woe to the world and them that dwell therein!
15. for the sword and their destruction draweth near, and nation shall rise up against nation to battle with weapons in their hands.