“Look! The Lord is abut to destroy the earth and make it a vast wasteland. He devastates the surface of the earth and scatters the people. Priests and laypeople, servants and masters, maids and mistresses, buyers and sellers, lenders and borrowers, bankers and debtors – now will be spared. The earth will completely be emptied and looted. The Lord has spoken!” (vv. 1-4, NLT)