⁸ Therefore, wait for me—oracle of the Lord—
    until the day when I arise as accuser;
For it is my decision to gather nations,
    to assemble kingdoms,
In order to pour out upon them my wrath,
    all my blazing anger;
For in the fire of my passion
    all the earth will be consumed.^(A)

²⁶ I looked—the garden land was a wilderness,
    with all its cities destroyed
    before the Lord, before his blazing anger.^(A)
27     For thus says the Lord:
The whole earth shall be waste,
    but I will not wholly destroy it.^(B)