9. “How terrible it will be for the nation that becomes rich by doing wrong.They do those things to live in a safe place.They think they will be safe from harm.
10. You have made plans to destroy many people.This has made your own houses ashamed of you.Because of it, you will lose your lives.
11. The stones of the walls will cry out against you.Even the wooden boards that support the roof will agree that you are wrong.
12. “How terrible it will be for the nation that kills people to build a city.How terrible for that nation that wrongs others to start a town.
13. The Lord of heaven’s armies will send fireto destroy what those people have built.All the nations’ work will be for nothing.
14. Then people everywhere will know the Lord’s greatness.This news will spread like water covering the sea.
15. “How terrible for the nation that becomes angry and makes others suffer.In anger they knock other people to the ground.And they treat them as if they are naked and drunk.
16. You Babylonians will receive the Lord’s anger, not respect.This anger will be like a cup of poison in the Lord’s right hand.You will taste this anger and fall to the ground like a drunk person.You will drink from this cup.You will receive disgrace, not respect.
17. You hurt many people in Lebanon.Now you will be hurt.You killed many animals there.And now you must be afraid.You will be afraid because of what you didto those cities and the people who lived in them.
18. “An idol does no good, because a man made it.It is only a statue that teaches lies.The person who made it expects his own work to help him.But it can’t even speak!