I will make the land desolate because they have acted unfaithfully, declares the sovereign Lord.”

Then you multiplied your promiscuity to the land of merchants, Babylonia, but you were not satisfied there either.

He plucked off its topmost shoot; he brought it to a land of merchants and planted it in a city of traders.

He took one of the seedlings of the land, placed it in a cultivated plot; a shoot by abundant water, like a willow he planted it.

The nations heard about him; he was trapped in their pit. They brought him with hooks to the land of Egypt.

He broke down their strongholds and devastated their cities. The land and everything in it was frightened at the sound of his roaring.

Return it to its sheath! In the place where you were created, in your native land, I will judge you.

Yet she increased her prostitution, remembering the days of her youth when she engaged in prostitution in the land of Egypt.

I will put an end to the obscene conduct in the land; all the women will learn a lesson from this and not engage in obscene conduct.

They will descend from their ships – all who handle the oar, the sailors and all the sea captains – they will stand on the land.

When your products went out from the seas, you satisfied many peoples; with the abundance of your wealth and merchandise you enriched the kings of the earth.

Ethiopia, Put, Lud, all the foreigners, Libya, and the people of the covenant land will die by the sword along with them.

They will be desolate among desolate lands, and their cities will be among ruined cities.

I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations and disperse them among foreign countries. Then they will know that I am the Lord.”

I will drench the land with the flow of your blood up to the mountains, and the ravines will be full of your blood.

I will disturb many peoples, when I bring about your destruction among the nations, among countries you do not know.

He sees the sword coming against the land, blows the trumpet, and warns the people,

You rely on your swords and commit abominable deeds; each of you defiles his neighbor’s wife. Will you possess the land?’

This is what the sovereign Lord says: While the whole earth rejoices, I will turn you into a desolation.

So I poured my anger on them because of the blood they shed on the land and because of the idols with which they defiled it.