The Lord's Answer

“Look among the nations, and see; wonder and be astounded. For I am doing a work in your days that you would not believe if told.

Is he then to keep on emptying his net and mercilessly killing nations forever?

“Moreover, wine is a traitor, an arrogant man who is never at rest. His greed is as wide as Sheol; like death he has never enough. He gathers for himself all nations and collects as his own all peoples.”

Because you have plundered many nations, all the remnant of the peoples shall plunder you, for the blood of man and violence to the earth, to cities and all who dwell in them.

Behold, is it not from the Lord of hosts that peoples labor merely for fire, and nations weary themselves for nothing?

He stood and measured the earth; he looked and shook the nations; then the eternal mountains were scattered; the everlasting hills sank low. His were the everlasting ways.

You marched through the earth in fury; you threshed the nations in anger.