11. Violence produces more wickedness. Nothing of theirs will remain, nothing of their wealth, their splendour, or their glory.
12. The time is coming. The day is near when buying and selling will have no more meaning, because God's punishment will fall on everyone alike.
13. No merchant will live long enough to get back what he has lost, because God's anger is on everyone. Those who are evil cannot survive.
14. The trumpet sounds, and everyone gets ready. But no one goes off to war, for God's anger will fall on everyone alike.
15. There is fighting in the streets, and sickness and hunger in the houses. Anyone who is out in the country will die in the fighting, and anyone in the city will be a victim of sickness and hunger.
16. Some will escape to the mountains like doves frightened from the valleys. All of them will moan over their sins.
17. Everyone's hands will be weak, and their knees will shake.
18. They will put on sackcloth and they will tremble all over. Their heads will be shaved, and they will all be disgraced.
19. They will throw their gold and silver away in the streets like refuse, because neither silver nor gold can save them when the Lord pours out his fury. They cannot use it to satisfy their desires or fill their stomachs. Gold and silver led them into sin.
20. Once they were proud of their beautiful jewels, but they used them to make disgusting idols. That is why the Lord has made their wealth repulsive to them.
21. “I will let foreigners rob them,” says the Lord, “and lawbreakers will take all their wealth and defile it.