21. Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes,and prudent in their own sight!
22. Woe to those who are mighty to drink wine,and champions at mixing strong drink;
23. who acquit the guilty for a bribe,but deny justice for the innocent!
24. Therefore as the tongue of fire devours the stubble,and as the dry grass sinks down in the flame,so their root shall be as rottenness,and their blossom shall go up as dust;because they have rejected the law of the Lord of Hosts,and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.
25. Therefore the Lord’s anger burns against his people,and he has stretched out his hand against them, and has struck them.The mountains tremble,and their dead bodies are as refuse in the middle of the streets.For all this, his anger is not turned away,but his hand is still stretched out.
26. He will lift up a banner to the nations from far,and he will whistle for them from the end of the earth.Behold, they will come speedily and swiftly.
27. No one shall be weary nor stumble amongst them;no one shall slumber nor sleep;neither shall the belt of their waist be untied,nor the strap of their sandals be broken:
28. whose arrows are sharp,and all their bows bent.Their horses’ hoofs will be like flint,and their wheels like a whirlwind.
29. Their roaring will be like a lioness.They will roar like young lions.Yes, they shall roar,and seize their prey and carry it off,and there will be no one to deliver.
30. They will roar against them in that day like the roaring of the sea.If one looks to the land behold, darkness and distress.The light is darkened in its clouds.