When God’s wrathful ire shakes the mountains and rivers,

He will no longer, on account of man’s cowardice,

bestow on him these different forms of succor.

At this moment, God will wax furious,

refusing all living things a chance to repent

and, abandoning all His hopes for man,

God will mete out the punishment man so richly deserves.

At this time, thunder and lightning flash and roar,

like the ocean’s waves raging in anger,

like ten thousand mountains crashing down.

For his rebelliousness, man is felled by the thunder and lightning,

and other creatures are wiped out in the blasts of thunder and lightning.

The whole universe descends abruptly into chaos,

and creation is unable to recover the primal breath of life.

The myriad hosts of humanity cannot escape the thunder’s roar;

in the midst of flashes of lightning,

human beings, horde upon horde, topple over into the swift flow,

to be swept away by torrents that cascade down from the mountains.

All of a sudden, the world of “men” converges

in the place of man’s “destination.”

Corpses drift about on the ocean’s surface.

All of humanity goes far away from God on account of His wrath,

for man has sinned against the essence of God’s Spirit,

and his rebellion has offended God, his rebellion has offended God.

Corpses drift about on the ocean’s surface.

All of humanity goes far away from God on account of His wrath,

for man has sinned against the essence of God’s Spirit,

and his rebellion has offended God, his rebellion has offended God.

But, in the places empty of water,

other men still enjoy, amid laughter and song,

the promises that God has vouchsafed unto them.

from Follow the Lamb and Sing New Songs