Let destruction take them by surprise! Let the net they hid catch them! Let them fall into destruction!

They come in as through a wide breach; amid the crash they come rolling in.

to satisfy a devastated and desolate land, and to cause it to sprout with vegetation?

gaunt with want and hunger, they would gnaw the parched land, in former time desolate and waste.

O Lord, how long are you going to just stand there and watch this? Rescue me from their destructive attacks; guard my life from the young lions!

Enemies seek to destroy my life, but they will descend into the depths of the earth.

You will not be afraid of sudden disaster, or when destruction overtakes the wicked;

What will you do on judgment day, when destruction arrives from a distant place? To whom will you run for help? Where will you leave your wealth?

Disaster will overtake you; you will not know how to charm it away. Destruction will fall on you; you will not be able to appease it. Calamity will strike you suddenly, before you recognize it.

You will advance; you will come like a storm. You will be like a cloud covering the earth, you, all your troops, and the many other peoples with you.

That day will be a day of God’s anger, a day of distress and hardship, a day of devastation and ruin, a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and dark skies,