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.
16. For there shall be sedition among men; and waxing strong one against another, they shall not regard their king nor the chief of their great ones, in their might.
17. For a man shall desire to go into a city, and shall not be able.
18. For because of their pride the cities shall be troubled, the houses shall be destroyed, and men shall be afraid.
19. A man shall have no pity upon his neighbor, but shall make an assault on their houses with the sword, and spoil their goods, because of the lack of bread, and for great tribulation.
20. Behold, says God, I call together all the kings of the earth, to stir up them that are from the rising of the sun, from the south, from the east, and Libanus; to turn themselves one against another, and repay the things that they have done to them.
21. Like as they do yet this day to my chosen, so will I do also, and recompense in their bosom. Thus says the Lord God:
22. My right hand shall not spare the sinners, and my sword shall not cease over them that shed innocent blood upon the earth.
23. And a fire is gone forth from his wrath, and has consumed the foundations of the earth, and the sinners, like the straw that is kindled.