1Behold, on the mountains the feet of one proclaiming good news, one causing to hear peace. O Judah, your festivals—pay your vows! For the worthless man will not again pass through you; he is finished, cut off.2Go up, you who scatter upon your face. You have kept watch from the siege. Watch the way, strengthen the loins, make strength very strong.3For the LORD has restored the majesty of Jacob like the majesty of Israel, for plunderers have plundered them and have plundered their vines.4The shields of his mighty men are red; men of strength devour with fire of steels; the chariots rush on the day of their preparing, and the spearmen make red.5In the streets the chariots will act madly, the chariot will shake in the plazas, their appearances like torches, they will rush like lightnings.6He remembers his majestic ones—they stumble in their walking; they hasten to her wall and establish the covering.7The gates of the rivers are opened, and the temple melts away.8And the one stationed—her exile went up; and her slave women were moaning like the voice of doves, cooing over their hearts.9And Nineveh is like a pool of waters in her days. And they are fleeing. Stand! Stand! But no one turns back.10Spoiled silver, spoiled gold, and there is no end to its abundance, heavy beyond all vessels of desire.11Emptiness and emptiness, and Balak, and heart melted, and knees knock together, and trembling in all loins, and the faces of them gather pallor.12Where is the lair of lions, and the feeding place of villages, where the lion went, the lioness there, the lion cub sojourned, the lion, and there was none terrifying?13The lion has preyed with his hands on his sojourners and strangled for his lionesses, and he has filled his caves with prey and his lairs with torn flesh.