20. Behold, says God, I call together all the kings of the earth, to stir up them that are from the rising of the sun, from the south, from the east, and Libanus; to turn themselves one against another, and repay the things that they have done to them.
21. Like as they do yet this day to my chosen, so will I do also, and recompense in their bosom. Thus says the Lord God:
22. My right hand shall not spare the sinners, and my sword shall not cease over them that shed innocent blood upon the earth.
23. And a fire is gone forth from his wrath, and has consumed the foundations of the earth, and the sinners, like the straw that is kindled.
24. Woe to them that sin, and keep not my commandments! says the Lord.
25. I will not spare them: go your way, you⌃ rebellious children, defile not my sanctuary.
26. For the Lord knows all them that trespass against him, therefore has he delivered them to death and destruction.
27. For now are the evils come upon the whole earth, and you⌃ shall remain in them: for God shall not deliver you, because you⌃ have sinned against him.
28. Behold, a vision horrible, and the appearance thereof from the east!
29. And the nations of the dragons of Arabia shall come out with many chariots, and from the day that they set forth the hissing of them is carried over the earth, so that all they which shall hear them may fear also and tremble.
30. Also the Carmonians raging in wrath shall go forth as the wild boars of the wood, and with great power shall they come, and join battle with them, and shall waste a portion of the land of the Assyrians with their teeth.
31. And then shall the dragons have the upper hand, remembering their nature; and if they shall turn themselves, conspiring together in great power to persecute them,
32. then these shall be troubled, and keep silence through their power, and shall turn and flee.
33. And from the land of the Assyrians shall the lier in wait besiege them, and consume one of them, and upon their host shall be fear and trembling, and sedition against their kings.
34. Behold, clouds from the east and from the north to the south, and they are very horrible to look upon, full of wrath and storm.
35. They shall dash one against another, and they shall pour out a plentiful storm upon the earth, even their own star; and there shall be blood from the sword to the horse’s belly,
36. and to the thigh of man, and to the camel’s hough.
37. And there shall be fearfulness and great trembling upon earth: and they that see that wrath shall be afraid, and trembling shall take hold upon them.
38. And after this shall there be stirred up great storms from the south, and from the north, and another part from the west.
39. And strong winds shall arise from the east, and shall shut it up, even the cloud which he raised up in wrath; and the star that was to cause destruction by the east wind shall be violently driven toward the south and west.
40. And great clouds and mighty and full of wrath shall be lifted up, and the star, that they may destroy all the earth, and them that dwell therein; and they shall pour out over every high and eminent one a terrible star,