Nations are terrified, kingdoms are shaken; God thunders, and the earth dissolves.

O LORD, tear the sky open and come down; touch the mountains, and they will pour out smoke.

Why don't you tear the sky open and come down? The mountains would see you and shake with fear.

The LORD is coming from his holy place; he will come down and walk on the tops of the mountains.

When he is angry, who can survive? Who can survive his terrible fury? He pours out his flaming anger; rocks crumble to dust before him.

When the mountains saw you, they trembled; water poured down from the skies. The waters under the earth roared, and their waves rose high.

Then I saw a great white throne and the one who sits on it. Earth and heaven fled from his presence and were seen no more.

And so the earth will quake, and everyone in the land will be in distress. The whole country will be shaken; it will rise and fall like the Nile River.

How long will our land be dry, and the grass in every field be withered? Animals and birds are dying because of the wickedness of our people, people who say, 'God doesn't see what we are doing.' "

And so the land will dry up, and everything that lives on it will die. All the animals and birds, and even the fish, will die."

So all your loyal people should pray to you in times of need; when a great flood of trouble comes rushing in, it will not reach them.

The ocean depths raise their voice, O LORD; they raise their voice and roar.

The LORD rules supreme in heaven, greater than the roar of the ocean, more powerful than the waves of the sea.

I, the Lord, will bring the emperor of Assyria and all his forces to attack Judah. They will advance like the flood waters of the Euphrates River, overflowing all its banks.

They will sweep through Judah in a flood, rising shoulder high and covering everything." God is with us! His outspread wings protect the land.

The rain poured down, the rivers flooded over, the wind blew hard against that house, and it fell. And what a terrible fall that was!"