<p class="poetry">Because of the anxiety that makes me groan,p> <p class="poetry">my bones protrude from my skin.<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">before the vindictive enemyp> <p class="poetry">who ridicules and insults me.<n id="1" />p>

The sound of their voices shook the door frames,<n id="1" /> and the temple was filled with smoke.p>

<p class="poetry">Indeed, the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s shout will shatter Assyria;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">he will beat them with a club.p>

<p class="poetry">The nations run away when they hear a loud noise;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">the nations scatter when you spring into action!<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">The people of the earth will quake when they hear Babylon has been captured.p> <p class="poetry">Her cries of anguish will be heard by the other nations.&#8221;<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">because of what the enemy says,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">and because of how the wicked<n id="2" /> pressure me,<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">for they hurl trouble<n id="4" /> down upon me<n id="5" />p> <p class="poetry">and angrily attack me.p>

<p class="poetry">The people of the earth will quake when they hear of their downfall.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">Their cries of anguish will be heard all the way to the Gulf of Aqaba.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">He broke down<n id="1" /> their strongholds<n id="2" /> and devastated their cities.p> <p class="poetry">The land and everything in it was frightened at the sound of his roaring.p>

<p class="poetry">Hear<n id="1" /> the sound of those who divide the sheep<n id="2" /> among the watering places;p> <p class="poetry">there they tell of<n id="3" /> the Lord&#8217;s victorious deeds,p> <p class="poetry">the victorious deeds of his warriors<n id="4" /> in Israel.p> <p class="poetry">Then the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s people went down to the city gates &#8211;p>

<p class="poetry">At the sound of the approaching horsemen and archersp> <p class="poetry">the people of every town will flee.p> <p class="poetry">Some of them will hide in the thickets.p> <p class="poetry">Others will climb up among the rocks.p> <p class="poetry">All the cities will be deserted.p> <p class="poetry">No one will remain in them.p>

<p class="poetry">The snorting of the enemy&#8217;s horsesp> <p class="poetry">is already being heard in the city of Dan.p> <p class="poetry">The sound of the neighing of their stallions<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">causes the whole land to tremble with fear.p> <p class="poetry">They are coming to destroy the land and everything in it!p> <p class="poetry">They are coming to destroy<n id="2" /> the cities and everyone who lives in them!&#8221;p>

<p class="poetry">Fathers will hear the hoofbeats of the enemies&#8217; horses,p> <p class="poetry">the clatter of their chariots and the rumbling of their wheels.p> <p class="poetry">They will not turn back to save their childrenp> <p class="poetry">because they will be paralyzed with fear.<n id="1" />p>

He will cover you with the dust kicked up by his many horses.<n id="1" /> Your walls will shake from the noise of the horsemen, wheels, and chariots when he enters your gates like those who invade through a city&#8217;s broken walls.<n id="2" />

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;This is what the sovereign <sc>Lordsc> says to Tyre: Oh, how the coastlands will shake at the sound of your fall, when the wounded groan, at the massive slaughter in your midst!

<p class="poetry">The one who runs away from the sound of the terrorp> <p class="poetry">will fall into the pit;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">the one who climbs out of the pit,p> <p class="poetry">will be trapped by the snare.p> <p class="poetry">For the floodgates of the heavens<n id="2" /> are opened up<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">and the foundations of the earth shake.p>

I made the nations shake at the sound of its fall, when I threw it down to Sheol, along with those who descend to the pit.<n id="1" /> Then all the trees of Eden, the choicest and the best of Lebanon, all that were well-watered, were comforted in the earth below.