16 From the ends of the earth we hear songs:

The Splendor of the Righteous One.l

But I said, “I waste away! I waste away!B

Woe is me.”

The treacherous act treacherously;

the treacherous deal very treacherously.m

17 Panic, pit, and trap await youn

who dwell on the earth.o

18 Whoever flees at the sound of panic

will fall into a pit,

and whoever escapes from the pit

will be caught in a trap.

For the floodgates on high are opened,a

and the foundations of the earth are shaken.b

19 The earth is completely devastated;

the earth is split open;

the earth is violently shaken.

20 The earth staggers like a drunkardc

and sways like a hut.

Earth’s rebellion weighs it down,

and it falls, never to rise again.