"I have cutoffnations;Their cornertowersare in ruins.I have madetheir streetsdesolate,With noonepassingby; Their citiesare laidwaste,Withouta man,withoutan inhabitant.
"Thisis the plandevisedagainstthe wholeearth;and thisis the handthat is stretchedout againstallthe nations.
Then the angelof the LORDwentout and struck185000in the campof the Assyrians;and when men aroseearlyin the morning,behold,allof these were dead.
Then I said,"Lord,howlong?"And He answered,"Untilcitiesare devastated[and] withoutinhabitant,Housesare withoutpeopleAnd the landis utterlydesolate,
Whois the wisemanthat may understandthis?And [who is] he to whomthe mouthof the LORDhas spoken,that he may declareit? Whyis the landruined,laidwastelike a desert,sothat noonepassesthrough?
I will laywasteyour citiesas well and will makeyour sanctuariesdesolate,and I will not smellyour soothingaromas.
Woeto the inhabitantsof the seacoast,The nationof the Cherethites!The wordof the LORDis againstyou, O Canaan,landof the Philistines;And I will destroyyou Sothat therewill be noinhabitant.
"but I scatteredthem with a stormwindamongallthe nationswhomthey have not known.Thus the landis desolatedbehindthem sothat noone wentbackand forth,for they madethe pleasantlanddesolate."
"Behold,your houseis being leftto you desolate!
Nowthese thingshappenedto them as an example,and they were writtenfor our instruction,upon whomthe endsof the ageshave come.
Nowthese thingshappenedas examplesfor us, sothat we would not craveevil thingsas they alsocraved.
"See,I have apportionedto you thesenationswhich remainas an inheritancefor your tribes,with allthe nationswhichI have cutoff,from the Jordaneven to the GreatSeatoward the settingof the sun.
