9 I will not look on you with pity or spare you.I will punish you for your waysand for your detestable practices within you.Then you will knowthat it is I, Yahweh, who strikes.
10 Look, the day is coming!Doom has gone out. The rod has blossomed; arrogance has bloomed.
11 Violence has grown into a rod of wickedness. None of them will remain:none of their multitude,none of their wealth,and none of the eminent among them.
12 The time has come; the day has arrived.Let the buyer not rejoice and the seller not mourn,for wrath is on all her masses.
13 The seller will certainly not returnto what was soldas long as he and the buyer remain alive. For the vision concerning all its peoplewill not be revoked,and none of them will preservehis life because of his iniquity.
14 They have blown the trumpet and prepared everything,but no one goes to war,for My wrath is on all her masses.
15 The sword is on the outside; plague and famine are on the inside.Whoever is in the field will die by the sword,and famine and plague will devourwhoever is in the city.