19. Whenever punishment comes, it will take you away.It will come morning after morning.It will defeat you by day and by night.Those who hear of this punishment will be terrified.”
20. You will be like the man who tried to sleepon a bed that was too short for him.And his blanket was too narrowto wrap around himself.
21. The Lord will fight as he did at Mount Perazim.He will be angry as he was in the Valley of Gibeon.Then the Lord will do his work, his strange work.He will finish his job, his strange job.
22. Now, you must not make fun of these things.If you do, the ropes around you will become tighter.The Lord of heaven’s armies has told me these things.He has told me how the whole earth will be destroyed.
23. Listen closely to what I tell you.Listen carefully to what I say.