1. How terrible it will be for you, Babylon and Asia! How terrible for you, Egypt and Syria!
2. Dress yourselves in mourning clothes. Howl over your children and grieve for them, because distress has drawn near to you.
3. The sword has been sent against you, and who can turn it away?
4. Fire has been sent against you, and who can extinguish it?
5. Disasters are sent against you, and who can ward them off?
6. Can anyone ward off a hungry lion in the woods? Or put out a fire in dried hay, once it has begun to burn?
7. Or repel an arrow shot by a strong archer?
8. The Lord God sends disasters; who can ward them off?
9. His anger blazes like fire; who can extinguish it?