²⁴ Therefore as the tongue of fire devours the stubble,
    and dry grass sinks down in the flame,
so their root will become like the stench,
    and their blossom will go up like the dust.
For they have rejected the instruction of Yahweh of hosts,
    and they have treated the word of the holy one of Israel with contempt.
²⁵ Therefore Yahweh’s wrath was kindled^[a] against his people,
    and he stretched out his hand against them^[b] and struck them,^[c]
and the mountains quaked,
    and their corpses^[d] were like refuse in the middle of the streets.

In all of this his anger has not turned back,
    and still his hand is stretched out.
²⁶ And he will raise a signal for a nation^[e] from afar,
and he will whistle for it from the end of the earth.
And look! It comes quickly, swiftly!