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The Destruction of Israel

9I saw the Lord standing beside^* the altar, and he said:
Strike the capitals until the thresholds shake,
   and shatter them on the heads of all the people;^*
and those who are left I will kill with the sword;
   not one of them shall flee away,
   not one of them shall escape.

² Though they dig into Sheol,
   from there shall my hand take them;
though they climb up to heaven,
   from there I will bring them down.
³ Though they hide themselves on the top of Carmel,
   from there I will search out and take them;
and though they hide from my sight at the bottom of the sea,
   there I will command the sea-serpent, and it shall bite them.
⁴ And though they go into captivity in front of their enemies,
   there I will command the sword, and it shall kill them;
and I will fix my eyes on them
   for harm and not for good.