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30 People will beg the mountains, ‘Fall on us,’ and plead with the hills, ‘Bury us.’[a]

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Footnotes

  1. 23:30 Hos 10:8.

16 And they cried to the mountains and the rocks, “Fall on us and hide us from the face of the one who sits on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb.

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And the pagan shrines of Aven,[a] the place of Israel’s sin, will crumble.
    Thorns and thistles will grow up around their altars.
They will beg the mountains, “Bury us!”
    and plead with the hills, “Fall on us!”

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Footnotes

  1. 10:8 Aven is a reference to Beth-aven; see 10:5a and the note there.

19 When the Lord rises to shake the earth,
    his enemies will crawl into holes in the ground.
They will hide in caves in the rocks
    from the terror of the Lord
    and the glory of his majesty.

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In those days people will seek death but will not find it. They will long to die, but death will flee from them!

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