O Lord, in distress they looked for you; they uttered incantations because of your discipline.

Those who trust in idols will turn back and be utterly humiliated, those who say to metal images, ‘You are our gods.’”

For your hands are stained with blood and your fingers with sin; your lips speak lies, your tongue utters malicious words.

The worthless idols will be completely eliminated.

The earth will be completely devastated and thoroughly ransacked. For the Lord has decreed this judgment.

Indeed, nations or kingdoms that do not serve you will perish; such nations will be totally destroyed.

I replied, “How long, sovereign master?” He said, “Until cities are in ruins and unpopulated, and houses are uninhabited, and the land is ruined and devastated,

The earth is broken in pieces, the earth is ripped to shreds, the earth shakes violently.

Even if the forest is destroyed and the city is annihilated,

We have rebelled and tried to deceive the Lord; we turned back from following our God. We stir up oppression and rebellion; we tell lies we concocted in our minds.

So Moab wails over its demise – they all wail! Completely devastated, they moan about what has happened to the raisin cakes of Kir Hareseth.

The Lord will divide the gulf of the Egyptian Sea; he will wave his hand over the Euphrates River and send a strong wind, he will turn it into seven dried-up streams, and enable them to walk across in their sandals.

Even youths get tired and weary; even strong young men clumsily stumble.

For the Lord is angry at all the nations and furious with all their armies. He will annihilate them and slaughter them.

Certainly you have heard how the kings of Assyria have annihilated all lands. Do you really think you will be rescued?

For a fool speaks disgraceful things; his mind plans out sinful deeds. He commits godless deeds and says misleading things about the Lord; he gives the hungry nothing to satisfy their appetite and gives the thirsty nothing to drink.

So I defiled your holy princes, and handed Jacob over to destruction, and subjected Israel to humiliating abuse.”

The sinful nation is as good as dead, the people weighed down by evil deeds. They are offspring who do wrong, children who do wicked things. They have abandoned the Lord, and rejected the Holy One of Israel. They are alienated from him.

The officials of Zoan are nothing but fools; Pharaoh’s wise advisers give stupid advice. How dare you say to Pharaoh, “I am one of the sages, one well-versed in the writings of the ancient kings?”

You will be broken, O nations; you will be shattered! Pay attention, all you distant lands of the earth! Get ready for battle, and you will be shattered! Get ready for battle, and you will be shattered!