10. Look, the day is coming!Doom has gone out. The rod has blossomed; arrogance has bloomed.
11. Violence has grown into a rod of wickedness. None of them will remain:none of their multitude,none of their wealth,and none of the eminent among them.
12. The time has come; the day has arrived.Let the buyer not rejoice and the seller not mourn,for wrath is on all her masses.
13. The seller will certainly not returnto what was soldas long as he and the buyer remain alive. For the vision concerning all its peoplewill not be revoked,and none of them will preservehis life because of his iniquity.
14. They have blown the trumpet and prepared everything,but no one goes to war,for My wrath is on all her masses.
15. The sword is on the outside; plague and famine are on the inside.Whoever is in the field will die by the sword,and famine and plague will devourwhoever is in the city.
16. The survivors among them will escape and live on the mountainslike doves of the valley,all of them moaning,each over his own iniquity.
17. All their hands will become weak, and all their knees will turn to water.
18. They will put on sackcloth,and horror will overwhelm them.Shame will cover all their faces,and all their heads will be bald.
19. They will throw their silver into the streets,and their gold will seem like something filthy. Their silver and gold will be unable to save themin the day of the Lord’s wrath. They will not satisfy their appetitesor fill their stomachs,for these were the stumbling blocks that brought about their iniquity.
20. He appointed His beautiful ornaments for majesty,but they made their abhorrent images from them,their detestable things. Therefore, I have made theseinto something filthy for them.
21. I will hand these things overto foreigners as plunder and to the wicked of the earth as spoil,and they will profane them.
22. I will turn My face from the wickedas they profane My treasured place.Violent men will enter it and profane it.
23. Forge the chain, for the land is filled with crimes of bloodshed,and the city is filled with violence.
24. So I will bring the most evil of nations to take possession of their houses.I will put an end to the pride of the strong,and their sacred places will be profaned.