Sing to the Lord, for he has done magnificent things, let this be known throughout the earth!

They come from a distant land, from the horizon. It is the Lord with his instruments of judgment, coming to destroy the whole earth.

All of them respond to you, saying: ‘You too have become weak like us! You have become just like us!

In their streets they wear sackcloth; on their roofs and in their town squares all of them wail, they fall down weeping.

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

All you who live in the world, who reside on the earth, you will see a signal flag raised on the mountains; you will hear a trumpet being blown.

along with the plants by the mouth of the river. All the cultivated land near the river will turn to dust and be blown away.

Here is a message about the Valley of Vision: What is the reason that all of you go up to the rooftops?

They howl in the streets because of what happened to the wine; all joy turns to sorrow; celebrations disappear from the earth.

O Lord, you make us secure, for even all we have accomplished, you have done for us.

You have made the nation larger, O Lord, you have made the nation larger and revealed your splendor, you have extended all the borders of the land.

For tyrants will disappear, those who taunt will vanish, and all those who love to do wrong will be eliminated –

you will be blessed, you who plant seed by all the banks of the streams, you who let your ox and donkey graze.

Come near, you nations, and listen! Pay attention, you people! The earth and everything it contains must listen, the world and everything that lives in it.

Her nobles will have nothing left to call a kingdom and all her officials will disappear.

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

It is true, Lord, that the kings of Assyria have destroyed all the nations and their lands.

I dug wells and drank water. With the soles of my feet I dried up all the rivers of Egypt.’

I cry out until morning; like a lion he shatters all my bones; you turn day into night and end my life.

What can I say? He has decreed and acted. I will walk slowly all my years because I am overcome with grief.