The Lord’s Reply

“Look among the nations and watch— Be utterly astounded! For I will work a work in your days Which you would not believe, though it were told you.

Shall they therefore empty their net, And continue to slay nations without pity?

Woe to the Wicked

“Indeed, because he transgresses by wine, He is a proud man, And he does not stay at home. Because he enlarges his desire as hell, And he is like death, and cannot be satisfied, He gathers to himself all nations And heaps up for himself all peoples.

Because you have plundered many nations, All the remnant of the people shall plunder you, Because of men’s blood And the violence of the land and the city, And of all who dwell in it.

Behold, is it not of the Lord of hosts That the peoples labor to feed the fire, And nations weary themselves in vain?

He stood and measured the earth; He looked and startled the nations. And the everlasting mountains were scattered, The perpetual hills bowed. His ways are everlasting.

You marched through the land in indignation; You trampled the nations in anger.