²³ He makes rulers come to nothing; the judges of the earth are of no value.

⁴⁰ He puts an end to the pride of kings, and sends them wandering in the waste lands where there is no way.

²¹ He puts shame on chiefs, and takes away the power of the strong;

¹⁸ Jerusalem and the towns of Judah and their kings and their princes, to make them a waste place, a cause of fear and surprise and a curse, as it is this day;

¹⁹ Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and his servants and his princes and all his people;

²⁰ And all the mixed people and all the kings of the land of Uz, and all the kings of the land of the Philistines, and Ashkelon and Gaza and Ekron and the rest of Ashdod;

²¹ Edom and Moab and the children of Ammon,

²² And all the kings of Tyre, and all the kings of Zidon, and the kings of the lands across the sea;

²³ Dedan and Tema and Buz, and all who have the ends of their hair cut;

²⁴ And all the kings of Arabia, and all the kings of the mixed people living in the waste land;

²⁵ And all the kings of Zimri, and all the kings of Elam, and all the kings of the Medes;

²⁶ And all the kings of the north, far and near, one with another; and all the kingdoms of the world on the face of the earth.

²⁷ And you are to say to them, This is what the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said: Take of this cup and be overcome, and let it come out again from your lips, and from your fall you will never be lifted up again, because of the sword which I will send among you.

¹⁸ So that you may take for your food the flesh of kings, and of captains, and of strong men, and of horses and of those who are seated on them, and the flesh of all men, free and unfree, small and great.

¹⁹ And I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their armies, come together to make war against him who was seated on the horse and against his army.

²⁰ And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet who did the signs before him, by which they were turned from the true way who had the mark of the beast, and who gave worship to his image: these two were put living into the sea of ever-burning fire.

⁵¹ With his arm he has done acts of power; he has put to flight those who have pride in their hearts.

⁵² He has put down kings from their seats, lifting up on high the men of low degree.

¹² The jackals will be there, and her great ones will be gone; they will say, There is no longer a kingdom there, and all her chiefs will have come to an end.

²¹ And in that day the Lord will send punishment on the army of the high ones on high, and on the kings of the earth on the earth.

²² And they will be got together, like prisoners in the prison-house; and after a long time they will have their punishment.

⁹ It was the purpose of the Lord of armies to put pride to shame, to make sport of the glory of those who are honoured in the earth.

¹³ The chiefs of Zoan have become foolish, the chiefs of Noph are tricked, the heads of her tribes are the cause of Egypt's wandering out of the way.

¹⁴ The Lord has sent among them a spirit of error: and by them Egypt is turned out of the right way in all her doings, as a man overcome by wine is uncertain in his steps.

¹² He puts an end to the wrath of rulers; he is feared by the kings of the earth.

¹⁹ Who has no respect for rulers, and who gives no more attention to those who have wealth than to the poor, for they are all the work of his hands.

²⁰ Suddenly they come to an end, even in the middle of the night: the blow comes on the men of wealth, and they are gone, and the strong are taken away without the hand of man.