40
And great and mighty clouds, full of wrath and tempest, shall rise, to destroy all the earth and its inhabitants, and shall pour out upon every high and lofty place a terrible tempest,
41
fire and hail and flying swords and floods of water, that all the fields and all the streams may be filled with the abundance of those waters.
42
And they shall destroy cities and walls, mountains and hills, trees of the forests, and grass of the meadows, and their grain.
43
And they shall go on steadily to Babylon, and shall destroy her.
44
They shall come to her and surround her; they shall pour out the tempest and all its wrath upon her; then the dust and smoke shall go up to heaven, and all who are about her shall wail over her.
Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright 1952 [2nd edition, 1971] by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.