24 Therefore, as the fire devours the stubbleand the flame consumes the chaff,so their root shall be as rottenness,and their blossom shall go up as dust;because they have cast away the law of the Lord of Hostsand despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.
25 Therefore the anger of the Lord burns against His people,and He has stretched out His hand against them, and has stricken them,and the hills trembled.Their corpses were torn in the midst of the streets. For all this His anger is not turned away,and His hand is still stretched out.
26 He will lift up a banner to the nations from afarand will hiss at them from the ends of the earth;certainly they shall comewith speed, swiftly.
27 No one shall be weary or stumble among them;no one shall slumber or sleep;neither shall the girdle of their loins be loosed,nor the strap of their shoes be broken;
28 their arrows are sharpand all their bows bent;their horses’ hooves will seem like flint,and their wheels like a whirlwind.
29 Their roaring shall be like a lion,they shall roar like young lions;they shall roar and lay hold of the prey;and shall carry it away, and no one shall deliver it.
30 In that day they shall roar against themlike the roaring of the sea.And if one looks to the land—only darkness and sorrow,and the light is darkened by the clouds.