12. The city is left in ruins.Its gate is battered to pieces.
13. That is the way it will be on earth among the nations.They will be like an olive tree which has been shakenor like what’s left after the grape harvest.
14. They raise their voices.They shout for joy.From the sea they sing joyfully about the Lord’s majesty.
15. Honor the Lord in the east.Honor the name of the Lord God of Israel along the coastlands.
16. From the ends of the earth we hear songs of praisethat honor the Righteous One.But I kept saying,“I’m wasting away! I’m wasting away!How horrible it is for me!Traitors continue to betray,and their treachery grows worse and worse.”
17. Disasters, pits, and trapsare in store for those who live on earth.
18. Whoever flees from news of a disaster will fall into a pit.Whoever climbs out of that pit will be caught in a trap.The floodgates in the sky will be opened,and the foundations of the earth will shake.
19. The earth will be completely broken.The earth will shake back and forth violently.The earth will stagger.
20. The earth will stumble like a drunkand sway like a shack in the wind.Its disobedience weighs heavy on it.It will fall and not get up again.
21. On that day the Lord will punish heaven’s armies in heavenand earth’s kings on earth.
22. They’ll be gathered like prisoners in a jailand locked in prison.After a long time they’ll be punished.