8. The joyful tambourines have ceased.The noise of the jubilant has stopped.The joyful lyre has ceased.
9. They no longer sing and drink wine;beer is bitter to those who drink it.
10. The city of chaos is shattered; every house is closed to entry.
11. In the streets they cry for wine.All joy grows dark;earth’s rejoicing goes into exile.
12. Only desolation remains in the city;its gate has collapsed in ruins.
13. For this is how it will be on earthamong the nations:like a harvested olive tree,like a gleaning after a grape harvest.
14. They raise their voices, they sing out;they proclaim in the westthe majesty of the Lord.
15. Therefore, in the east honor the Lord!In the islands of the westhonor the name of Yahweh,the God of Israel.
16. From the ends of the earth we hear songs:The Splendor of the Righteous One. But I said, “I waste away! I waste away! Woe is me.”The treacherous act treacherously;the treacherous deal very treacherously.
17. Panic, pit, and trap await you who dwell on the earth.
18. Whoever flees at the sound of panicwill fall into a pit,and whoever escapes from the pitwill be caught in a trap.For the windows are opened from heaven, and the foundations of the earth are shaken.
19. The earth is completely devastated;the earth is split open;the earth is violently shaken.
20. The earth staggers like a drunkard and sways like a hut.Earth’s rebellion weighs it down,and it falls, never to rise again.