"Watch! They'll come from far away some from the north and from the west, and others from the region of China."

Arameans from the east and Philistines from the west and they devour Israel with open mouths! "Yet for all this, his anger has not turned away, and his hand is still stretched out, ready to strike."

But they will swoop down on the slopes of the Philistines to the west, and they will plunder the people to the east. They'll lay their hands on Edom and Moab, and the Ammonites will be subject to them.

"They raise their voices; they shout for joy; from the west they shout aloud over the LORD's majesty.

"Don't be afraid, for I am with you; I'll bring your children from the east, and gather you from the west.

so that from the sun's rising to the west people may know that there is none besides me. "I am the LORD, and there is no other."

So people will fear the name of the LORD from the west, and his glories from the rising of the sun; for he will come as a pent-up stream that the breath of the LORD drives along.