9. I will not spare you or show you any mercy. I am going to punish you for the disgusting things you have done, so that you will know that I am the Lord, and that I am the one who punishes you.”
10. The day of disaster is coming for Israel. Violence is flourishing. Pride is at its height.
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.