Messengers from the city of Dan and from the hills of Ephraim announce the bad news.

They have come to warn the nations and to tell Jerusalem that enemies are coming from a country far away. These enemies will shout against the cities of Judah

They changed its name from Laish to Dan, after their ancestor Dan, the son of Jacob.

All the people of Israel from Dan in the north to Beersheba in the south, as well as from the land of Gilead in the east, answered the call. They gathered in one body in the LORD's presence at Mizpah.

I looked at the mountains---they were shaking, and the hills were rocking back and forth.

When the mountains saw you, they trembled; water poured down from the skies. The waters under the earth roared, and their waves rose high.

They have taken up their bows and swords; they are cruel and merciless. They sound like the roaring sea, as they ride their horses. They are ready for battle against Jerusalem."

They will hear the hoofbeats of horses, the clatter of chariots, the rumble of wheels. Parents will not turn back for their children; their hands will hang limp at their sides.

Then the horses came galloping on, stamping the ground with their hoofs.

He commands the sea, and it dries up! He makes the rivers go dry. The fields of Bashan wither, Mount Carmel turns brown, and the flowers of Lebanon fade.

Mountains quake in the presence of the LORD; hills melt before him. The earth shakes when the LORD appears; the world and all its people tremble.

Listen! The crack of the whip, the rattle of wheels, the gallop of horses, the jolting of chariots!

The world and all that is in it belong to the LORD; the earth and all who live on it are his.

For, as the scripture says, "The earth and everything in it belong to the Lord."

But if someone tells you, "This food was offered to idols," then do not eat that food, for the sake of the one who told you and for conscience' sake---