9. I won’t shed a tear or show any pitywhen I turn your ways against you,and your detestable practices stay with you.Then you will know that I, the Lord, am the one who strikes you!
10. Look, the day! Look, it comes!Doom has arrived! The staff blossoms, and pride springs up!
11. Violence rises up as a wicked master.It isn’t from others or their armies or their violence.It hasn’t loomed up because of them.
12. The time is coming! The day draws near!No buyer should rejoice, and no seller should mourn,because wrath overcomes the whole crowd.
13. The seller will never get back what was sold,even if both of them survive.The vision concerns the whole crowd.It won’t be revoked.And the guilty ones—they won’t even be able to hang on to their lives.
14. They have blown the horn,and everything is ready, but no one goes to battle,because my wrath overcomes the whole crowd.
15. Outside, the sword! Inside, plague and famine!Whoever is out in the field will die by the sword.Whoever is in the city,plague and famine will consume them.
16. And those who flee?They will turn up on the hills like valley doves,all of them moaning, those guilty ones.
17. Every hand will hang limp;urine will run down every leg.
18. They will put on mourning clothes,and horror will cover them.On every face, shame;on all their heads, baldness.
19. They will hurl their silver into the street,and their gold will seem unclean.Their silver and their gold won’t deliver themon the day of the Lord’s anger.They won’t satisfy their appetites or fill their bellies.Their guilt will bring them down.
20. From their beautiful ornament, in which they took pride,they have made horrible and detestable images!Therefore, I’ve declared it an unclean thing for them.
21. I’ll hand it over to foreigners as loot taken in war,to the earth’s wicked ones as plunder—they will defile it!
22. When I hide my face from my people,foreigners will defile my treasured place.Violent intruders will invade it; they will defile it!
23. Make a chain!The earth is full of perverted justice,the city full of violence.
24. I’ll bring up the cruelest nations,and they will seize their houses.I’ll break their proud strength,and their sanctuaries will be defiled.