¹⁶ “Behold, I will send for many ^(A)fishermen,” says the Lord, “and they shall fish them; and afterward I will send for many hunters, and they shall hunt them from every mountain and every hill, and out of the holes of the rocks.

¹⁵ And the ^(A)kings of the earth, the great men, ^[a]the rich men, the commanders, the mighty men, every slave and every free man, ^(B)hid themselves in the caves and in the rocks of the mountains, ^16 (C)and said to the mountains and rocks, “Fall on us and hide us from the face of Him who ^(D)sits on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb! ¹⁷ For the great day of His wrath has come, ^(E)and who is able to stand?”

The Destruction of Israel

9 I saw the Lord standing by the altar, and He said:

²⁰ So now, do not let my blood fall to the earth before the face of the Lord. For the king of Israel has come out to seek ^(A)a flea, as when one hunts a partridge in the mountains.”

⁹ He was a mighty ^(A)hunter ^(B)before the Lord; therefore it is said, “Like Nimrod the mighty hunter before the Lord.”

⁹ behold, I will send and take ^(A)all the families of the north,’ says the Lord, ‘and Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, ^(B)My servant, and will bring them against this land, against its inhabitants, and against these nations all around, and will utterly destroy them, and ^(C)make them an astonishment, a hissing, and perpetual desolations.