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.