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12 For man (A)does not know his time. Like fish that are taken in an evil net, and (B)like birds that are caught in a snare, so the children of man are (C)snared at an evil time, when it suddenly falls upon them.

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12 Moreover, no one knows when their hour will come:

As fish are caught in a cruel net,
    or birds are taken in a snare,
so people are trapped by evil times(A)
    that fall unexpectedly upon them.(B)

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22 Hyenas[a] will cry in its towers,
    and (A)jackals in (B)the pleasant palaces;
its time is close at hand
    and its days will not be prolonged.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 13:22 Or foxes

22 Hyenas(A) will inhabit her strongholds,(B)
    jackals(C) her luxurious palaces.
Her time is at hand,(D)
    and her days will not be prolonged.(E)

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(A)All the nations shall serve him and (B)his son and (C)his grandson, (D)until the time of his own land comes. (E)Then many nations and great kings shall make him their slave.

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All nations will serve(A) him and his son and his grandson until the time(B) for his land comes; then many nations and great kings will subjugate(C) him.

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You shall say, Thus says the Lord God: A city that sheds blood in her midst, so that (A)her time may come, and that makes idols to defile herself!

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and say: ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: You city that brings on herself doom by shedding blood(A) in her midst and defiles herself by making idols,

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    (A)For the day is near,
    (B)the day of the Lord is near;
it will be (C)a day of clouds,
    a time of doom for[a] the nations.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 30:3 Hebrew lacks doom for

For the day is near,(A)
    the day of the Lord(B) is near—
a day of clouds,
    a time of doom for the nations.

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