This is how the once-proud city will end up -- the city that was so secure. She thought to herself, "I am unique! No one can compare to me!" What a heap of ruins she has become, a place where wild animals live! Everyone who passes by her taunts her and shakes his fist.

You have planted much, but have harvested little. You eat, but are never filled. You drink, but are still thirsty. You put on clothes, but are not warm. Those who earn wages end up with holes in their money bags.'"

He causes the clouds to arise from the end of the earth, makes lightning bolts accompany the rain, and brings the wind out of his storehouses.

Those who make them will end up like them, as will everyone who trusts in them.

Then he said, "May God judge me severely if Elisha son of Shaphat still has his head by the end of the day!"

And you will be hated by everyone because of my name. But the one who endures to the end will be saved.