Isaiah 13:6–16

⁶Wail! For the day of the Lord is near.^s

It will come as destruction from the Almighty.^t

⁷Therefore everyone’s hands will become weak,

and every man will lose heart.

⁸They will be horrified;

pain and agony will seize them;

they will be in anguish like a woman in labor.^u

They will look at each other,

their faces flushed with fear.

⁹Look, the day^v of the Lord is coming—

cruel, with fury and burning anger—

to make the earth a desolation

and to destroy its sinners.^w

¹⁰Indeed, the stars of the sky and its constellations^B

will not give their light.

The sun will be dark when it rises,

and the moon will not shine.^a

¹¹I will punish the world for its evil,^b

and wicked people for their iniquities.

I will put an end to the pride of the arrogant^c

and humiliate the insolence of tyrants.

¹²I will make a human more scarce than fine gold,

and mankind more rare than the gold of Ophir.^d

¹³Therefore I will make the heavens tremble,

and the earth will shake from its foundations^e

at the wrath of the Lord of Armies,

on the day of his burning anger.

¹⁴Like wandering gazelles

and like sheep without a shepherd,^f

each one will turn to his own people,

each one will flee to his own land.

¹⁵Whoever is found will be stabbed,

and whoever is caught will die by the sword.

¹⁶Their children will be dashed to pieces before their eyes;^g

their houses will be looted,

and their wives raped.