When the Lord gives the command, homes both great and small will be smashed to pieces.

看哪，耶和华出令，大房就被攻破，小屋就被打裂。

看哪，耶和华发命令，把大房子拆成碎片，小屋子裂为小块。

看哪，耶和华发命令，把大房子拆成碎片，小屋子裂为小块。

看啊，耶和华一声令下，大屋顿成瓦砾，小房化为碎片。

看哪！耶和华下令，大楼就粉碎，小屋也要破裂。

看哪，耶和華出令，大房就被攻破，小屋就被打裂。

看哪，耶和華發命令，把大房子拆成碎片，小屋子裂為小塊。

看哪，耶和華發命令，把大房子拆成碎片，小屋子裂為小塊。

看啊，耶和華一聲令下，大屋頓成瓦礫，小房化為碎片。

看哪！耶和華下令，大樓就粉碎，小屋也要破裂。

因為你看，永恆主一發命令，大房屋就被擊毁、成了碎片，小房屋則被打壞、到四分五裂。

蓋耶和華出令、巨室被擊而碎、小屋亦遭殘破、

蓋耶和華曾言必毀其室家、巨細不分、

蓋主已命毀其大室小室、皆傾圮為瓦礫、

For the Lord has given the command, and he will smash the great house into pieces and the small house into bits.

That’s because the Lord has already given an order. He will smash large houses to pieces. He will crush small houses to bits.

For behold, the Lord commands, and the great house shall be struck down into fragments, and the little house into bits.

For the LORD commands: The large house will be smashed to pieces, and the small house to rubble.

For behold, the Lord is going to command that the great house be smashed to pieces, and the small house to rubble.

For behold, the Lord gives a command: He will break the great house into bits, And the little house into pieces.

For, behold, Jehovah commandeth, and the great house shall be smitten with breaches, and the little house with clefts.

For the Lord commands: The large house will be smashed to pieces, and the small house to rubble.

For, behold, the LORD commandeth, and he will smite the great house with breaches, and the little house with clefts.

Indeed, look! The LORD is giving the command. He will smash the large house to bits, and the small house into little pieces.

“ For, behold, Yahweh commands, and the great house will be smashed to pieces, and the little house into bits.

And I will destroy the beautiful homes of the wealthy— their winter mansions and their summer houses, too— all their palaces filled with ivory,” says the Lord.

It is the same with my word. I send it out, and it always produces fruit. It will accomplish all I want it to, and it will prosper everywhere I send it.

He burned down the Temple of the Lord, the royal palace, and all the houses of Jerusalem. He destroyed all the important buildings in the city.

“ What sorrow awaits Assyria, the rod of my anger. I use it as a club to express my anger.I am sending Assyria against a godless nation, against a people with whom I am angry. Assyria will plunder them, trampling them like dirt beneath its feet.

“ For I will give the command and will shake Israel along with the other nations as grain is shaken in a sieve, yet not one true kernel will be lost.

The Sovereign Lord has sworn by his own name, and this is what he, the Lord God of Heaven’s Armies, says:“ I despise the arrogance of Israel, and I hate their fortresses. I will give this city and everything in it to their enemies.”

“ Son of man, the army of King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon fought so hard against Tyre that the warriors’ heads were rubbed bare and their shoulders were raw and blistered. Yet Nebuchadnezzar and his army won no plunder to compensate them for all their work.Therefore, this is what the Sovereign Lord says: I will give the land of Egypt to Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon. He will carry off its wealth, plundering everything it has so he can pay his army.Yes, I have given him the land of Egypt as a reward for his work, says the Sovereign Lord, because he was working for me when he destroyed Tyre.

When the ram’s horn blows a warning, shouldn’t the people be alarmed? Does disaster come to a city unless the Lord has planned it?Indeed, the Sovereign Lord never does anything until he reveals his plans to his servants the prophets.

He spoke, and hordes of locusts came— young locusts beyond number.

Only I can tell you the future before it even happens. Everything I plan will come to pass, for I do whatever I wish.I will call a swift bird of prey from the east— a leader from a distant land to come and do my bidding. I have said what I would do, and I will do it.

I will gather all the nations to fight against Jerusalem. The city will be taken, the houses looted, and the women raped. Half the population will be taken into captivity, and the rest will be left among the ruins of the city.

He called for a famine on the land of Canaan, cutting off its food supply.

Then I saw a vision of the Lord standing beside the altar. He said,“ Strike the tops of the Temple columns, so that the foundation will shake. Bring down the roof on the heads of the people below. I will kill with the sword those who survive. No one will escape!

When the Lord spoke, flies descended on the Egyptians, and gnats swarmed across Egypt.

And this is what the Lord says concerning the Assyrians in Nineveh:“ You will have no more children to carry on your name. I will destroy all the idols in the temples of your gods. I am preparing a grave for you because you are despicable!”

I, the Lord, have dedicated these soldiers for this task. Yes, I have called mighty warriors to express my anger, and they will rejoice when I am exalted.”

They will crush you into the ground, and your children with you. Your enemies will not leave a single stone in place, because you did not recognize it when God visited you.”

The people of Samaria must bear the consequences of their guilt because they rebelled against their God. They will be killed by an invading army, their little ones dashed to death against the ground, their pregnant women ripped open by swords.”

Laziness leads to a sagging roof; idleness leads to a leaky house.