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.
2:3 For the message is a witness to what is decreed;
it gives reliable testimony about how matters will turn out.
Even if the message
for it will certainly come to pass – it will not arrive late.
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
2:11 For the stones in the walls will cry out,
and the wooden rafters will answer back.
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.
2:14 For recognition of the Lord’s sovereign majesty will fill the earth
just as the waters fill up the sea.
1:4 For this reason the law lacks power,
and justice is never carried out.
Indeed,
For this reason justice is perverted.
1:6 Look, I am about to empower
that ruthless
They sweep across the surface
seizing dwelling places that do not belong to them.
2:8 Because you robbed many countries,
all who are left among the nations
You have shed human blood
and committed violent acts against lands, cities,
2:17 For you will pay in full for your violent acts against Lebanon;
terrifying judgment will come upon you because of the way you destroyed the wild animals living there.
You have shed human blood
and committed violent acts against lands, cities, and those who live in them.
3:8 Is the Lord mad at the rivers?
Are you angry with the rivers?
Are you enraged at the sea?
Is this why
your victorious chariots?
2:5 Indeed, wine will betray the proud, restless man!
His appetite
like death, he is never satisfied.
He gathers
he seizes
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,