1 Ek het die Here by die altaar sien staan, en Hy het gesê: Slaan die kapiteel van die pilaar, sodat die drumpels bewe; en verpletter hulle bo die hoof van almal! En Ek sal die wat van hulle oorbly, met die swaard ombring: die vlugteling uit hulle sal nie ontsnap nie, en geen vrygeraakte onder hulle homself red nie.

2 Al dring hulle deur in die doderyk, my hand sal hulle daaruit haal; en al klim hulle op na die hemel, Ek sal hulle van daar laat neerdaal.

3 En al steek hulle hul weg op die top van Karmel, Ek sal hulle daar opspoor en weghaal; en al verberg hulle hul voor my oë op die bodem van die see, Ek sal van daar die slang ontbied om hulle te byt.

4 En al gaan hulle as gevangenes voor hulle vyande uit, Ek sal van daar die swaard ontbied om hulle dood te maak; en Ek sal my oog op hulle rig ten kwade en nie ten goede nie.

5 Ja, dit is die Here HERE van die leërskare wat die aarde aanraak, sodat dit bewe en almal treur wat daarop woon; en dit sal in sy geheel oprys soos die Nyl en wegsak soos die rivier van Egipte.

6 Dit is Hy wat sy solders in die hemele bou en sy hemelgewelf bo die aarde vestig, wat die waters van die see roep en dit uitgiet oor die aardbodem, HERE is sy Naam!

7 Is julle nie vir My soos die kinders van Kus nie, o kinders van Israel? spreek die HERE. Het Ek Israel nie laat optrek uit Egipteland en die Filistyne uit Kaftor en die Arameërs uit Kir nie?

8 Kyk, die oë van die Here HERE is gerig teen die sondige koninkryk, en Ek sal dit van die aardbodem verdelg; maar Ek sal die huis van Jakob nie heeltemal verdelg nie, spreek die HERE.

9 Want kyk, Ek gee bevel en sal die huis van Israel onder al die nasies skud soos in 'n sif geskud word, maar daar sal geen korrel op die grond val nie.

10 Al die sondaars van my volk sal deur die swaard sterwe, die wat sê: Die onheil sal ons nie bereik en ons nie ontmoet nie.

11 In die dag sal Ek die vervalle hut van Dawid weer oprig, en Ek sal sy skeure toebou en sy puinhope herstel, en Ek sal dit opbou soos in die ou tyd;

12 sodat hulle in besit kan neem die oorblyfsel van Edom en al die nasies oor wie my Naam uitgeroep is, spreek die HERE wat dit doen.

13 Kyk, die dae kom, spreek die HERE, dat die ploeër die maaier inhaal, en die druiwetrapper die saadsaaier; en dat die berge van mos sal drup, en al die heuwels daarvan oorvloei sal wees.

14 En Ek sal die lot van my volk Israel verander, en hulle sal die verwoeste stede bou en bewoon, ook sal hulle wingerde plant en die wyn daarvan drink, en tuine aanlê en die vrugte daarvan eet.

15 En Ek sal hulle plant in hul land, en hulle sal nie meer uitgeruk word uit hul land wat Ek hulle gegee het nie, sê die HERE jou God.

1 I saw the Lord stationed by the side of the altar, giving blows to the tops of the pillars so that the doorsteps were shaking: and he said, I will let all of them be broken with earth-shocks; I will put the last of them to the sword: if any one of them goes in flight he will not get away, not one of them will be safe.

2 Even if they go deep into the underworld, my hand will take them up from there; if they go up to heaven, I will get them down:

3 Though they take cover on the top of Carmel, I will go in search of them and get them out; though they keep themselves from my eyes in the bed of the sea, I will give orders to the great snake there and he will give them a bite:

4 And though they are taken away as prisoners by their attackers, even there will I give orders to the sword to put them to death: my eyes will be fixed on them for evil and not for good.

5 For the Lord, the God of armies, is he at whose touch the land is turned to water, and everyone in it will be given up to sorrow; all of it will be overflowing like the River, and will go down again like the River of Egypt;

6 It is he who makes his rooms in the heaven, basing his arch on the earth; whose voice goes out to the waters of the sea, and sends them flowing over the face of the earth; the Lord is his name.

7 Are you not as the children of the Ethiopians to me, O children of Israel? says the Lord. Have I not taken Israel up out of the land of Egypt, and the Philistines from Caphtor, and the Aramaeans from Kir?

8 See, the eyes of the Lord are on the evil kingdom, and I will put an end to it in all the earth; but I will not send complete destruction on Jacob, says the Lord.

9 For see, I will give orders, and I will have Israel moved about among all the nations, as grain is moved about by the shaking of the tray, but not the smallest seed will be dropped on the earth.

10 All those sinners among my people will be put to the sword who say, Evil will not overtake us or come face to face with us.

11 In that day I will put up the tent of David which has come down, and make good its broken places; and I will put up again his damaged walls, building it up as in the past;

12 So that the rest of Edom may be their heritage, and all the nations who have been named by my name, says the Lord, who is doing this.

13 See, the days will come, says the Lord, when the ploughman will overtake him who is cutting the grain, and the crusher of the grapes him who is planting seed; and sweet wine will be dropping from the mountains, and the hills will be turned into streams of wine.

14 And I will let the fate of my people Israel be changed, and they will be building up again the waste towns and living in them; they will again be planting vine-gardens and taking the wine for their drink; and they will make gardens and get the fruit of them.

15 And I will have them planted in their land, and never again will they be uprooted from their land which I have given them, says the Lord your God.