1:1 The following is the message
1:5 “Look at the nations and pay attention!
You will be shocked and amazed!
For I will do something in your lifetime
that you will not believe even though you are forewarned.
1:6 Look, I am about to empower
that ruthless
They sweep across the surface
seizing dwelling places that do not belong to them.
1:14 You made people like fish in the sea,
like animals in the sea
1:16 Because of his success
and burns incense to his dragnet;
for because of them he has plenty of food,
and more than enough to eat.
2:6 “But all these nations will someday taunt him
and ridicule him with proverbial sayings:
‘The one who accumulates what does not belong to him is as good as dead
(How long will this go on?)
he who gets rich by extortion!’
2:13 Be sure of this! The Lord who commands armies has decreed:
The nations’ efforts will go up in smoke;
their exhausting work will be for nothing.
2:18 What good
What good is a metal image that gives misleading oracles?
Why would its creator place his trust in it
and make
3:2 Lord, I have heard the report of what you did;
I am awed,
In our time
in our time reveal them again.
But when you cause turmoil, remember to show us mercy!
3:9 Your bow is ready for action;
you commission your arrows.
You cause flash floods on the earth’s surface.
3:17 When
and there are no grapes on the vines;
when the olive trees do not produce,
and the fields yield no crops;
when the sheep disappear
and there are no cattle in the stalls,