24 1 God will turn the earth upside down and scatter all of its people. 3 The earth will be completely destroyed. 6 All the people on earth will be burned, except for a few men. 7 There is no more wine. All the merry-hearted sigh. 8 It is the day the music died. 9 Strong drinks will taste bitter. 10 There is confusion in the city. Houses are shut up, so that no one may come in. 11 There is crying for wine in the streets. All joy and mirth is gone.
14-16 Everyone will sing and rejoice and glorify the Lord in the fires.
17 Everyone on earth will be terrorized with the pit and the snare. 18 Those who run in fear will fall into the pit. Those who come out of the pit will be trapped in the snare. The windows of heaven will open and the foundations of the earth will shake.
19-20 The earth is broken down, has completely dissolved, and moves, reeling to and fro like a drunkard. It falls and will not rise. 21 God will punish the kings of the earth. 23 The moon will be confounded and the sun ashamed, when God reigns from Mount Zion in Jerusalem.
25 1 Oh God, you've done such wonderful things. 2 You've trashed a city. 3 The city of terrible nations will be afraid of you.
4 For you have been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy, a refuge from the storm, and a shadow from the heat.
6 On this mountain, God will make a feast of fat things and wines for everyone. 7 Then he'll destroy the mountain. 8 And he'll swallow up death in victory. 10 And stomp on Moab like straw on a dunghill.
26 1 In that day, this song will be sung.
14 The dead are dead. They will not live. God has caused their memory to perish.
19 Your dead people will live with my dead body.
Wake up and sing, you dust people, for the earth is casting out its dead.
21 For God will come out of his place to punish everyone on earth. And the earth will be covered with blood, and the dead bodies will not be covered.
27 1 On that day, God will kill leviathan (that piercing, crooked serpent) with his big, strong sword. And he'll kill the sea dragon.
2 God says,
On that day, sing a song to my red wine vineyard.
3 I water and keep it myself, night and day.
4 Fury isn't in me. But if I see any briers and thorns, I'll burn them.
11 God created people who don't understand. Therefore he won't have mercy on them or show them favor.
13 On that day, the great trumpet will sound and God will gather the children of Israel from Assyria and Egypt, and they will worship him on the holy mountain in Jerusalem.
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