11. The Lord says, “I will bring disaster on the earth and punish all wicked people for their sins. I will humble everyone who is proud and punish everyone who is arrogant and cruel.
12. Those who survive will be scarcer than gold.
13. I will make the heavens tremble, and the earth will be shaken out of its place on that day when I, the Lord Almighty, show my anger.
14. “The foreigners living in Babylon will run away to their own countries, scattering like deer escaping from hunters, like sheep without a shepherd.