3. Your powerful voice makes people run away in fear.Your greatness causes the nations to run away.
4. Like locusts, your enemies will take away the things you stole in war.Like locusts rushing about, they will take your wealth.
5. The Lord is very great. He lives in a high place.He fills Jerusalem with fairness and justice.
6. The Lord will be your safety.He is full of salvation, wisdom and knowledge.Respect for the Lord is the greatest treasure.
7. See, brave men are crying out in the streets.Those who tried to bring peace are crying loudly.
8. There is no one on the roads.No one is walking in the paths.People have broken the agreements they made.People refuse to believe the proof from witnesses.No one respects other people.
9. The land is sick and dying.Lebanon is ashamed and dying.The Plain of Sharon is dry like the desert.The trees of Bashan and Carmel are dying.
10. The Lord says, “Now, I will stand upand show my greatness.Now, I will become important to the people.
11. You people do useless things.These things are like hay and straw.A destructive wind will burn you like fire.
12. People will be burned until their bones become like lime.They will burn quickly like dry thornbushes.”
13. You people in faraway lands, hear what I have done.You people who are near me, learn about my power.
14. The sinners in Jerusalem are afraid.The people who are separated from God shake with fear.They say, “Can any of us live through this fire that destroys?Who can live near this fire that burns on and on?”