⁵ The Lord, the Lord Almighty, has a day^(A)
    of tumult and trampling^(B) and terror^(C)
    in the Valley of Vision,^(D)
a day of battering down walls^(E)
    and of crying out to the mountains.

³ What will you do on the day of reckoning,^(A)
    when disaster^(B) comes from afar?
To whom will you run for help?^(C)
    Where will you leave your riches?

⁶ But evil men are all to be cast aside like thorns,^(A)
    which are not gathered with the hand.
⁷ Whoever touches thorns
    uses a tool of iron or the shaft of a spear;
    they are burned up where they lie.”

⁷ The days of punishment^(A) are coming,
    the days of reckoning^(B) are at hand.
    Let Israel know this.
Because your sins^(C) are so many
    and your hostility so great,
the prophet is considered a fool,^(D)
    the inspired person a maniac.^(E)
8 The prophet, along with my God,
    is the watchman over Ephraim,^[a]
yet snares^(F) await him on all his paths,
    and hostility in the house of his God.^(G)

¹⁰ They will be entangled among thorns^(A)
    and drunk^(B) from their wine;
    they will be consumed like dry stubble.^[a](C)