How the animals groan!
The herds of cattle wander in confusion
since they have no pasture.
Even the flocks of sheep suffer punishment.

Their appearance is like that of horses,
and they gallop like war horses.

They bound on the tops of the mountains.
Their sound is like the sound of chariots,
like the sound of fiery flames consuming stubble,
like a mighty army deployed for war.

They attack as warriors attack;
they scale walls as men of war do.
Each goes on his own path,
and they do not change their course.

They do not push each other;
each man proceeds on his own path.
They dodge the arrows, never stopping.

They storm the city;
they run on the wall;
they climb into the houses;
they enter through the windows like thieves.

They cast lots for My people;
they bartered a boy for a prostitute
and sold a girl for wine to drink.

I will sell your sons and daughters into the hands of the people of Judah, and they will sell them to the Sabeans, to a distant nation, for the Lord has spoken.

Egypt will become desolate,
and Edom a desert wasteland,
because of the violence done to the people of Judah
in whose land they shed innocent blood.