If you don’t do this, then I will use my full power against you, your officials, and your people. Then you will know that there is no god in the world like me.
So the Lord has become very angry with his people. And the Lord will raise his hand and punish them. Even the mountains will be frightened. Dead bodies will lie in the streets like garbage. But God will still be angry. His hand will still be raised \{to punish the people\}.
No person prepares the ground for crops. {\cf2\super [120]} \par No rain falls on the land.\par The farmers are depressed.\par So they cover their heads from shame.\par
Then Nebuchadnezzar was very angry! He looked very mean at Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. He gave an order for the oven to be heated seven times hotter that it usually was.
People who had plenty of food in the past
must now work to get food.
But people who were hungry in the past
now grow fat on food!
The woman who was not able
to have children
now has seven children!
But the woman who had many children
is sad because her children are gone.