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⁸ I will pour out my wrath on you very soon;^(C1)
I will exhaust my anger against you
and judge you according to your ways.
I will punish you for all your detestable practices.⁹ I will not look on you with pity or spare you.
I will punish you for your ways
and for your detestable practices within you.
Then you will know
that it is I, the Lord, who strikes.

¹⁰ Here is the day! Here it comes!
Doom is on its way.^(C1)
The rod has blossomed;^(C2)
arrogance has bloomed.^(C3)11 Violence has grown into a rod of wickedness.^(C1)
None of them will remain:
none of that crowd,
none of their wealth,
and none of the eminent^(F1) among them.

¹² The time has come; the day has arrived.
Let the buyer not rejoice^(C1)
and the seller not mourn,
for wrath is on her whole crowd.^(C2)13 The seller will certainly not return
to what was sold
as long as he and the buyer remain alive.^(F1)
For the vision concerning her whole crowd
will not be revoked,
and because of the iniquity of each one,
none will preserve his life.

¹⁴ They have blown the trumpet^(C1)
and prepared everything,
but no one goes to war,
for my wrath is on her whole crowd.¹⁵ The sword is on the outside;^(C1)
plague and famine are on the inside.
Whoever is in the field will die by the sword,
and famine and plague will devour
whoever is in the city.

¹⁶ The survivors among them will escape^(C1)
and live on the mountains.
Like doves of the valley,
all of them will moan,
each over his own iniquity.¹⁷ All their hands will become weak,^(C1)
and all their knees will run with urine.^(F1)18 They will put on sackcloth,
and horror will overwhelm them.
Shame will cover all their faces,
and all their heads will be bald.^(C1)

¹⁹ They will throw their silver into the streets,
and their gold will seem like something filthy.^(C1)
Their silver and gold will be unable to save them
in the day of the Lord’s wrath.^(C2)
They will not satisfy their appetites
or fill their stomachs,
for these were the stumbling blocks^(C3)
that brought about their iniquity.

²⁰ He appointed his beautiful ornaments for majesty,
but^(F1) they made their detestable images from them,
their abhorrent things.^(C1)
Therefore, I have made these
into something filthy to them.²¹ I will hand these things over
to foreigners as plunder^(C1)
and to the wicked of the earth as spoil,
and they will profane them.²² I will turn my face from them
as they profane my treasured place.
Violent men will enter it and profane it.

²³ Forge the chain,^(C1)
for the land is filled with crimes of bloodshed,
and the city is filled with violence.^(C2)24 So I will bring the most evil of nations^(C1)
to take possession of their houses.
I will put an end to the pride of the strong,
and their sacred places will be profaned.^(C2)25 Anguish is coming!
They will look for peace, but there will be none.²⁶ Disaster after disaster will come,^(C1)
and there will be rumor after rumor.^(C2)
Then they will look for a vision from a prophet,^(C3)
but instruction will perish from the priests
and counsel from the elders.^(C4)27 The king will mourn;
the prince will be clothed in grief;
and the hands of the people of the land will tremble.
I will deal with them according to their own conduct,
and I will judge them by their own standards.^(C1)
Then they will know that I am the Lord.