Holman Christian Standard Bible CSB
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12 Only desolation remains in the city; its gate has collapsed in ruins.
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The city is left in ruins, its gate is battered to pieces.
13 For this is how it will be on earth among the nations: like a harvested olive tree, like a gleaning after a grape harvest.
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So will it be on the earth and among the nations, as when an olive tree is beaten, or as when gleanings are left after the grape harvest.
14 They raise their voices, they sing out; they proclaim in the west the majesty of the Lord.
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They raise their voices, they shout for joy; from the west they acclaim the LORD’s majesty.
15 Therefore in the east honor the Lord! In the islands of the west [honor] the name of the Lord, the God of Israel.
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Therefore in the east give glory to the LORD; exalt the name of the LORD, the God of Israel, in the islands of the sea.
16 From the ends of the earth we hear songs: The Splendor of the Righteous One. But I said, "I waste away! I waste away! Woe is me." The treacherous act treacherously; the treacherous deal very treacherously.
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From the ends of the earth we hear singing: “Glory to the Righteous One.” But I said, “I waste away, I waste away! Woe to me! The treacherous betray! With treachery the treacherous betray!”
17 Terror, pit, and snare [await] you who dwell on the earth.
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Terror and pit and snare await you, people of the earth.
18 Whoever flees at the sound of terror will fall into a pit, and whoever escapes from the pit will be caught in a snare. For the windows are opened from above, and the foundations of the earth are shaken.
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Whoever flees at the sound of terror will fall into a pit; whoever climbs out of the pit will be caught in a snare. The floodgates of the heavens are opened, the foundations of the earth shake.
19 The earth is completely devastated; the earth is split open; the earth is violently shaken.
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The earth is broken up, the earth is split asunder, the earth is violently shaken.
20 The earth staggers like a drunkard and sways like a hut. Earth's rebellion weighs it down, and it falls, never to rise again.
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The earth reels like a drunkard, it sways like a hut in the wind; so heavy upon it is the guilt of its rebellion that it falls—never to rise again.
21 On that day the Lord will punish the host of heaven above and kings of the earth below.
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In that day the LORD will punish the powers in the heavens above and the kings on the earth below.
22 They will be gathered together like prisoners in a pit. They will be confined to a dungeon; after many days they will be punished.
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They will be herded together like prisoners bound in a dungeon; they will be shut up in prison and be punished after many days.
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