1 I saw the Lord standing by the altar, and he said:“Smash the top of the pillarsso that even the bottom of the doors will shake.Make the pillars fall on the people’s heads;anyone left alive I will kill with a sword.Not one person will get away;no one will escape.
2 If they dig down as deep as the place of the dead,I will pull them up from there.If they climb up into heaven,I will bring them down from there.
3 If they hide at the top of Mount Carmel,I will find them and take them away.If they try to hide from me at the bottom of the sea,I will command a snake to bite them.
4 If they are captured and taken away by their enemies,I will command the sword to kill them.I will keep watch over them,but I will keep watch to give them trouble, not to do them good.”
5 The Lord God All-Powerful touches the land,and the land shakes.Then everyone who lives in the land cries for the dead.The whole land rises like the Nile Riverand falls like the river of Egypt.