²⁰ When the men of Ai looked behind them, they saw, and, behold, the smoke of the city ascended up to heaven, and they had no power to flee this way or that way: and the people who fled to the wilderness turned back on the pursuers.

²⁸ He looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and looked, and saw that the smoke of the land went up as the smoke of a furnace.

²⁰ But the eyes of the wicked shall fail, They shall have no way to flee; Their hope shall be the giving up of the spirit."

⁵ They saw it, then they were amazed. They were dismayed, They hurried away.

⁶ Trembling took hold of them there, Pain, as of a woman in travail.

⁵ Valiant men lie plundered, They have slept their last sleep. None of the men of war can lift their hands.

¹⁰ It shall not be quenched night nor day; the smoke of it shall go up for ever; from generation to generation it shall lie waste; none shall pass through it forever and ever.

¹⁴ Flight will perish from the swift; And the strong won't strengthen his force; Neither shall the mighty deliver himself;

¹⁵ Neither shall he stand who handles the bow; And he who is swift of foot won't escape; Neither shall he who rides the horse deliver himself;

¹⁶ And he who is courageous among the mighty will flee away naked in that day," says Yahweh.

¹⁵ The kings of the earth, the princes, the commanding officers, the rich, the strong, and every slave and free person, hid themselves in the caves and in the rocks of the mountains.

¹⁶ They told the mountains and the rocks, "Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him who sits on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb,

¹⁷ for the great day of his wrath has come; and who is able to stand?"

⁹ The kings of the earth, who committed sexual immorality and lived wantonly with her, will weep and wail over her, when they look at the smoke of her burning,

³ A second said, "Hallelujah! Her smoke goes up forever and ever."