5. Come, family of Jacob,and let us follow the way of the Lord.
6. Lord, you have left your people,the family of Jacob,because they have become filled with wrong ideas from people in the East.They try to tell the future like the Philistines,and they have completely accepted those foreign ideas.
7. Their land has been filled with silver and gold;there are a great many treasures there.Their land has been filled with horses;there are many chariots there.
8. Their land is full of idols.The people worship these idols they made with their own handsand shaped with their own fingers.
9. People will not be proud any longerbut will bow low with shame.God, do not forgive them.
10. Go into the caves of the cliffs;dig holes and hide in the groundfrom the anger of the Lordand from his great power!
11. Proud people will be made humble,and they will bow low with shame.At that time only the Lord will still be praised.
12. The Lord All-Powerful has a certain day plannedwhen he will punish the proud and those who brag,and they will no longer be important.
13. He will bring down the tall cedar trees from Lebanonand the great oak trees of Bashan,
14. all the tall mountainsand the high hills,
15. every tall towerand every high, strong wall,
16. all the trading shipsand the beautiful ships.
17. At that time proud people will be made humble,and they will bow low with shame.At that time only the Lord will be praised,
18. but all the idols will be gone.
19. People will run to caves in the rocky cliffsand will dig holes and hide in the groundfrom the anger of the Lordand his great power,when he stands to shake the earth.
20. At that time people will throw awaytheir gold and silver idols,which they made for themselves to worship;they will throw them away to the bats and moles.
21. Then the people will hide in cavesand cracks in the rocksfrom the anger of the Lordand his great power,when he stands to shake the earth.