they

To lower darkness [and then they shall know

How much impiety they wrought]; but the pious

They shall peer out the islands of the Sea.

Greatest in all the world, and they shall have

And strife shall be in Hellas; they shall rage

For that they without reason shall destroy

O wretched Antioch, they shall call thee

From thoughtlessness they utterly destroy

Raise mortals up, even as they were before.

[The pious; and they all shall see themselves

Utterly evil. But they labor hard,

They made them, vainly trusting such things. . . .

A man made equal to God, whom, they say,

Remained among them, and they quite destroyed

Didst perpetrate. They also shall behold

Did they unto God's children, when a king

A great wall they shall carry it aloft

Shall they be cut off; but they shall set up

Shall they be cut off; but they shall set up

Having great piety and faith they hoped.

Dead in Cymaean streams. And then shall they

Having a sign, shall know for what they toiled.

And then, when they shall have bewailed their land

That they might at the last be filled with joy.

And they and birds all mortals shall devour.

Because of which they did not understand

That they were unto gods of stone and clay

Shall cultivate their Egypt, they will then

May all occur. For they shall overthrow

Because they did not keep that which God gave.

Of Ocean they set all the earth on fire;

Be smitten whilst they crouch upon the ground.

And they shall mix much land with human blood.

From the force of the spear. But they shall leave

Because they knew not God, but always gave

Shall they be made to perish, but dissolved

For age-long years, they shall know that God's law

Through the changed air; and they shall undergo

But talking mere words over sorrows they

When they shall be by night and hunger slain.

Chose they before them. Of impiety

They may enslave them by a false pretense.

Shall mourn together; they alas, alas! Shall wail

Naked again to earth they haste away

And cease from life when they complete their time.

Judging for money; nor do they pour out

The shepherds. And then shall they take away

They'll perish; but they would not be persuaded,

Shall they again act, fearing not the wrath

In false words; they shall have no fill of wealth;

But shamelessly will they strip off still more;

Under the rule of tyrants they shall perish.

And faithless he shall come, and they will give

Elect, eternal. They shall pierce his side

With a reed that they may fulfill their law;

They gave him; this inhospitable board

From above, they might be no more enslaved

And they shall call death beautiful and death

Will they in vain ask God who rules on high,

There is not. They my image formed of wood

They sing their praises over idols dumb

Forsaking the Creator they were slaves

As if they for my honors deemed these things

For they flesh and bones full of marrow burn

Offering on altars, and they pour out blood

To demons, and they kindle lights to me

Of kings and tyrants they will do these things

And godless they their images call gods,

That from them they derive all hope and life,

But they are wholly ignorant of good.

Judgment to choose good life; but they themselves

The mouth of every one, that they themselves

Untiring; and they, setting themselves up

Fell; and against each other they stirred up

They do not make escape from in that day.

Of years shall they rule, and at last shall end.

And they shall build upon the seven hills

And they shall overthrow the famous walls

And they who dwell in the land of fair corn

Not of Zeus, not of Amnion shall they call

Of Cronos as they all imagine him.

Nor shall they in that day make their escape

Betrayer of her kingdom. But they shall

Shall bury; and against the king they all

Shall come, because they did not keep his law,

And their names shall be honored; and they shall

They shall not make a conquest of their laws.

And thee a city they shall never call,

Of Asia they shall treasure up their spoils,

And to the armies they, equipped for war,

After power, they shall barm disastrously

Then they, forgetful of their father's words

But they shall fall in wars, slain by strong Ares

And they will tear in pieces his dead corpse.

Shall they bring many evil things to pass,

Whom they shall surname Dionysus lord.

Shall rend, together they shall grasp the lungs

Bearing as no one else. They shall love Rome

But they shall not accomplish anything;

Because they have done many evil things.