and vultures are waiting to eat their corpses. They know their future is dark;

disaster, like a powerful king, is waiting to attack them.

The people who once were well fed now hire themselves out to get food, but the hungry are hungry no more. The childless wife has borne seven children, but the mother of many is left with none.

Any of your descendants who survive will have to go to that priest and ask him for money and food, and beg to be allowed to help the priests, in order to have something to eat."

Even lions go hungry for lack of food, but those who obey the LORD lack nothing good.

May his children be homeless beggars; may they be driven from the ruins they live in!

If they do not change their ways, God will sharpen his sword. He bends his bow and makes it ready;

See how wicked people think up evil; they plan trouble and practice deception.

When people say, "Everything is quiet and safe," then suddenly destruction will hit them! It will come as suddenly as the pains that come upon a woman in labor, and people will not escape.

In their greed these false teachers will make a profit out of telling you made-up stories. For a long time now their Judge has been ready, and their Destroyer has been wide awake!