5. Come, descendants of Jacob,let’s live in the light of the Lord.
6. Lord, you have abandoned your people, the descendants of Jacob,because they are filled with Eastern influences.They are fortunetellers like the Philistines,and they make deals with foreigners.
7. Their land is filled with silver and gold,and there is no end to their treasures.Their land is filled with horses,and there is no end to their chariots.
8. Their land is filled with idols,and they worship what their hands have shapedand what their fingers have molded.
9. People will be brought down. Everyone will be humbled.Do not forgive them.
10. Go in among the rocks and hide undergroundbecause of the Lord’s terrifying presenceand the honor of his majesty.
11. The eyes of arrogant people will be humbled.High and mighty people will be brought down.On that day the Lord alone will be honored.
12. The Lord of Armies will have his dayagainst all who are arrogant and conceitedand all who are proud of themselves (they will be humbled),
13. against all the towering and mighty cedars of Lebanonand all the oaks of Bashan,
14. against all the high mountainsand all the lofty hills,
15. against every high towerand every fortified wall,
16. against all the large ships of Tarshishand all the beautiful boats.
17. Then arrogant people will be brought down,and high and mighty people will be humbled.On that day the Lord alone will be honored.
18. Then idols will disappear completely.
19. People will go into caves in the rocksand into holes in the groundbecause of the Lord’s terrifying presenceand the honor of his majestywhen he rises to terrify the earth.
20. On that day people will throw to the moles and the batsthe silver and gold idols that they madefor themselves to worship.
21. They will go into caves in the rocksand into cracks in the cliffsbecause of the Lord’s terrifying presenceand the honor of his majestywhen he rises to terrify the earth.
22. Stop trusting people.Their life is in their nostrils.How can they be worth anything?