“ Surely nothing will escape them.
4They appear as if they were horses;
as horsemen, so they run along.
5Like the noise of chariots
they will leap upon the mountain tops,
like the sound of a flame of fire
devouring stubble,
like an army arrayed for battle.
6Seeing them, the nations will panic,
all faces will grow pale with terror.
7Like warriors they will run,
like soldiers they will climb a wall.
Each will march along his ways,
they will not deviate from their path.
8They do not push into each other,
each man walks straight forward. ”

“ Perhaps, if the people repent, God will, instead of destroying the land, leave a blessing (metaphorically "behind" him, as a "turns back") . The blessing would consist of allowing his people to remain in their land, rather than being conquered, and to allow the continuation of his agricultural blessings, which allow the people to continue to maintain the food and drink offerings given to the temple, which in turn maintain their proper relationship to Yahweh.↑ (2:20) east sea. ”

“ Its branches are white.
8Lament, like a virgin clothed in sackcloth
for the husband of her youth.
9The meal-offering and drink-offering have ceased from Yahweh's house;
the priests who serve Yahweh mourn.
10The field is plundered,
and the land mourns,
because the grain is plundered,
the new wine has dried up,
the olive oil runs out.
11Be ashamed, you farmers;
wail, you vintners;
for the wheat and for the barley,
because the harvest of the field is destroyed. ”