Before destruction the heart ¹  of a person is proud, but humility comes ²  before honor. ³ 

But false prophets arose among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you. ¹  These false teachers ²  will ³  infiltrate your midst ⁴  with destructive heresies, ⁵  even to the point of ⁶  denying the Master who bought them. As a result, they will bring ⁷  swift destruction on themselves.

These double disasters confronted you. But who feels sorry for you? Destruction and devastation, famine and sword. But who consoles you? ¹ 

Raise a signal flag that tells people to go to Zion. ¹  Run for safety! Do not delay! For I am about to bring disaster out of the north. It will bring great destruction. ² 

Those who long to be rich, however, stumble into temptation and a trap and many senseless and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction.

Destruction ¹  and Death say, ‘With our ears we have heard a rumor about where it can be found.’ ² 

the plague that comes in the darkness, or the disease that comes at noon. ¹ 

י (Yod) The hands of tenderhearted women ¹  cooked their own children, who became their food, ²  when my people ³  were destroyed. ⁴ 

They are eager to do evil, ¹  quick to shed innocent blood. ²  Their thoughts are sinful; they crush and destroy. ³ 

Sounds of violence ¹  will no longer be heard in your land, or the sounds of ²  destruction and devastation within your borders. You will name your walls, ‘Deliverance,’ and your gates, ‘Praise.’

Woe to them! For they have fled from me! Destruction to them! For they have rebelled against me! I want to deliver ¹  them, but they have lied to me.

But what if God, willing to demonstrate his wrath and to make known his power, has endured with much patience the objects ¹  of wrath ²  prepared for destruction? ³ 

For it is a fire that devours even to Destruction, ¹  and it would uproot ²  all my harvest.

Surely ¹  you put them in slippery places; you bring them down ²  to ruin.

Is your loyal love proclaimed in the grave, or your faithfulness in the place of the dead? ¹ 

He sent them an assuring word ¹  and healed them; he rescued them from the pits where they were trapped. ² 

Death and Destruction ¹  are before the Lord – how much more ²  the hearts of humans! ³ 

As ¹  Death and Destruction are never satisfied, ²  so the eyes of a person ³  are never satisfied. ⁴ 

The ¹  beast that was, and is not, is himself an eighth king and yet is one of the seven, and is going to destruction.

The city is left in ruins; ¹  the gate is reduced to rubble. ²