‘“The end! The end has come
    upon the four corners of the land!
³ The end is now upon you,
    and I will unleash my anger against you.
I will judge you according to your conduct
    and repay you for all your detestable practices.
⁴ I will not look on you with pity;
    I will not spare you.
I will surely repay you for your conduct
    and for the detestable practices among you.

‘“Disaster! Unheard-of^[a] disaster!
    See, it comes!
⁶ The end has come!
    The end has come!
It has roused itself against you.
    See, it comes!
⁷ Doom has come upon you,
    upon you who dwell in the land.
The time has come! The day is near!
    There is panic, not joy, on the mountains.
⁸ I am about to pour out my wrath on you
    and spend my anger against you.
I will judge you according to your conduct
    and repay you for all your detestable practices.
⁹ I will not look on you with pity;
    I will not spare you.
I will repay you for your conduct
    and for the detestable practices among you.

¹⁰ ‘“See, the day!
    See, it comes!
Doom has burst forth,
    the rod has budded,
    arrogance has blossomed!
¹¹ Violence has arisen,^[b]
    a rod to punish the wicked.
None of the people will be left,
    none of that crowd –
none of their wealth,
    nothing of value.
¹² The time has come!
    The day has arrived!
Let not the buyer rejoice
    nor the seller grieve,
    for my wrath is on the whole crowd.
¹³ The seller will not recover
    the property that was sold –
    as long as both buyer and seller live.
For the vision concerning the whole crowd
    will not be reversed.
Because of their sins, not one of them
    will preserve their life.

¹⁴ ‘“They have blown the trumpet,
    they have made all things ready,
but no one will go into battle,
    for my wrath is on the whole crowd.
¹⁵ Outside is the sword;
    inside are plague and famine.
Those in the country
    will die by the sword;
those in the city
    will be devoured by famine and plague.
¹⁶ The fugitives who escape
    will flee to the mountains.
Like doves of the valleys,
    they will all moan,
    each for their own sins.
¹⁷ Every hand will go limp;
    every leg will be wet with urine.
¹⁸ They will put on sackcloth
    and be clothed with terror.
Every face will be covered with shame,
    and every head will be shaved.

¹⁹ ‘“They will throw their silver into the streets,
    and their gold will be treated as a thing unclean.
Their silver and gold
    will not be able to deliver them
    in the day of the Lord’s wrath.
It will not satisfy their hunger
    or fill their stomachs,
    for it has caused them to stumble into sin.
²⁰ They took pride in their beautiful jewellery
    and used it to make their detestable idols.
They made it into vile images;
    therefore I will make it a thing unclean for them.
²¹ I will give their wealth as plunder to foreigners
    and as loot to the wicked of the earth,
    who will defile it.
²² I will turn my face away from the people,
    and robbers will desecrate the place I treasure.
They will enter it
    and will defile it.

²³ ‘“Prepare chains!
    For the land is full of bloodshed,
    and the city is full of violence.
²⁴ I will bring the most wicked of nations
    to take possession of their houses.
I will put an end to the pride of the mighty,
    and their sanctuaries will be desecrated.
²⁵ When terror comes,
    they will seek peace in vain.
²⁶ Calamity upon calamity will come,
    and rumour upon rumour.
They will go searching for a vision from the prophet,
    priestly instruction in the law will cease,
    the counsel of the elders will come to an end.
²⁷ The king will mourn,
    the prince will be clothed with despair,
    and the hands of the people of the land will tremble.
I will deal with them according to their conduct,
    and by their own standards I will judge them.

the mountain of the Lord’s temple will be established
    as the highest of the mountains;
it will be exalted above the hills,
    and all nations will stream to it.

‘Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord,
    to the temple of the God of Jacob.
He will teach us his ways,
    so that we may walk in his paths.’
The law will go out from Zion,
    the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.
⁴ He will judge between the nations
    and will settle disputes for many peoples.
They will beat their swords into ploughshares
    and their spears into pruning hooks.
Nation will not take up sword against nation,
    nor will they train for war any more.

⁵ Come, descendants of Jacob,
    let us walk in the light of the Lord.

¹⁰ Go into the rocks, hide in the ground
    from the fearful presence of the Lord
    and the splendour of his majesty!
¹¹ The eyes of the arrogant will be humbled
    and human pride brought low;
the Lord alone will be exalted in that day.

¹² The Lord Almighty has a day in store
    for all the proud and lofty,
for all that is exalted
    (and they will be humbled),
¹³ for all the cedars of Lebanon, tall and lofty,
    and all the oaks of Bashan,
¹⁴ for all the towering mountains
    and all the high hills,
¹⁵ for every lofty tower
    and every fortified wall,
¹⁶ for every trading ship^[b]
    and every stately vessel.
¹⁷ The arrogance of man will be brought low
    and human pride humbled;
the Lord alone will be exalted in that day,
¹⁸     and the idols will totally disappear.

¹⁹ People will flee to caves in the rocks
    and to holes in the ground
from the fearful presence of the Lord
    and the splendour of his majesty,
    when he rises to shake the earth.
²⁰ In that day people will throw away
    to the moles and bats
their idols of silver and idols of gold,
    which they made to worship.
²¹ They will flee to caverns in the rocks
    and to the overhanging crags
from the fearful presence of the Lord
    and the splendour of his majesty,
    when he rises to shake the earth.

²² Stop trusting in mere humans,
    who have but a breath in their nostrils.
    Why hold them in esteem?