I will send My wrath against a sinful nation, and I will command My people to take plunder and spoil, and to trample the cities, and to make dust out of them.

For what did He give Jacob up to spoil, and Israel to them that plundered him? Did not God [do it] against whom they sinned? [And] they would not walk in His ways, nor hearken to His law.

So He brought upon them the fury of His wrath; and the war, and those that burned round about them, prevailed against them; yet none of them knew [it], neither did they take [it] to heart.

And David said to Gad, On every side I am much straitened: let me fall now into the hands of the Lord, for His compassions [are] very many; and let me not fall into the hands of man.

And there was a prophet of the Lord there whose name [was] Oded. And he went out to meet the army that was coming to Samaria, and said to them, Behold, the wrath of the Lord God of your fathers [is] upon Judah, and He has delivered them into your hands, but you have killed them in wrath, and it has reached even to heaven.

because they persecuted him whom You have smitten; and they have added to the grief of my wounds.

And I am very angry with the heathen that combine to attack [her]: for as I indeed was a little angry, but they combined to attack [her] for evil.

And the princes have defiled My sanctuaries; so I gave Jacob [to enemies] to destroy, and Israel to reproach.

BETH. In the day of His wrath the Lord has overwhelmed [her] as in the sea, [and] not spared. He has brought down in His fury all the beautiful things of Jacob; He has brought down to the ground the strongholds of the daughter of Judah; He has profaned her kings and her princes.

Say to the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord: Behold, I [will] profane My sanctuary, the boast of your strength, the desire of your eyes, and for which your souls are concerned; and your sons and your daughters, whom you have left, shall fall by the sword.

Of the abundance of your merchandise you have filled your storehouses with iniquity, and have sinned. Therefore you have been cast down wounded from the mount of God, and the cherub has brought you out of the midst of the stones of fire.

And they shall dash their children before their eyes; and they shall spoil their houses, and shall take their wives.

that made the whole world desolate, and destroyed its cities; he loosed not those who were in captivity.

Because of the slaughter and the sin [committed against] your brother Jacob, shame shall cover you, and you shall be cut off forever.

For as you have drunk upon My holy mountain, so shall all the nations drink wine; they shall drink, and go down, and be as if they were not.

For with what judgment you judge, you will be judged; and with what measure you measure, it will be measured [back] to you.

For judgment is without mercy to the one who does not show mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.

a nation bold in countenance, which shall not respect the person of the aged and shall not pity the young.