40
Great and mighty clouds, full of wrath and tempest, shall rise and 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, so that all the fields and all the streams shall be filled with the abundance of those waters.
42
They shall destroy cities and walls, mountains and hills, trees of the forests, and grass of the meadows, and their grain.
43
They shall go on steadily to Babylon and blot it out.
44
They shall come to it and surround it; they shall pour out on it the tempest and all its fury; then the dust and smoke shall reach the sky, and all who are around it shall mourn for it.
New Revised Standard Version Bible, copyright 1989, 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.