1 Look upon the mountains at the feet of the person who brings good news, and publishes peace! Judah, keep your feasts, pay your vows: for they shall no more pass through you to your decay. It is all over with him, he has been removed. 2 One who has been delivered from affliction has come up panting into your presence, watch the way, brace your lower back, be very valiant in your strength. 3 For the Lord has turned aside the pride of Jacob, as the pride of Israel: for they have utterly rejected them, and have destroyed their branches. 4 They have destroyed the arms of their power from among men, their mighty men sporting with fire: the reins of their chariots shall be destroyed in the day of his preparation, and the horsemen shall be thrown into confusion 5 in the ways, and the chariots shall clash together, and shall be entangled in each other in the broad ways: their appearance is as lamps of fire, and as gleaming lightnings. 6 And their mighty men shall remember and flee by day; and they shall be weak as they go; and they shall hasten to her walls, and shall prepare their defenses. 7 The gates of the rivers have been opened, and the palaces have fallen into ruin, 8 and the foundation has been exposed; and she has gone up, and her maidservants were led away as doves moaning in their hearts. 9 And as for Nineveh, her waters shall be as a pool of water: and they fled, and did not stay, and there was none to look back. 10 They plundered the silver, they plundered the gold, and there was no end of her adorning; they were loaded with it upon all her pleasant vessels. 11 There is thrusting forth, and shaking, and tumult, and heart-breaking, and loosing of knees, and pains in every lower back; and the faces of all are as the blackening of a pot.⁠a 12 Where is the dwelling-place of the lions, and the pasture that belonged to the cubs? where did the lion go, that the lion cub should enter in there, and there was none to scare him away? 13 The lion seized enough prey for his cubs, and strangled for his young lions, and filled his lair with prey, and his dwelling-place with captured prey. 14 Look, I am against you, says the Lord Almighty, and I will burn up your multitude in the smoke, and the sword shall devour your lions; and I will utterly destroy your prey from the land, and your deeds shall no more at all be heard of.