Isaiah 13:6–16

^6mWail, for ⁿthe day of the Lord is near;

as destruction from the Almighty³ it will come!

⁷Therefore all hands will be feeble,

and every human heart ^owill melt.

⁸They will be dismayed:

^ppangs and agony will seize them;

^qthey will be in anguish like a woman in labor.

They will look aghast at one another;

their faces will be aflame.

⁹Behold, ⁿthe day of the Lord comes,

cruel, with wrath and fierce anger,

to make the land a desolation

and ^rto destroy its sinners from it.

^10sFor the stars of the heavens and their constellations

will not give their light;

^tthe sun will be dark at its rising,

and the moon will not shed its light.

¹¹I will punish ^uthe world for its evil,

and the wicked for their iniquity;

I will ^vput an end to the pomp of the arrogant,

^wand lay low the pompous pride of the ruthless.

¹²I will make ^xpeople more rare than fine gold,

and mankind than the ^ygold of Ophir.

¹³Therefore ^zI will make the heavens tremble,

and the earth will be shaken out of its place,

at the wrath of the Lord of hosts

in the day of his fierce anger.

¹⁴And like a hunted gazelle,

or like sheep with none to gather them,

^aeach will turn to his own people,

and each will flee to his own land.

¹⁵Whoever is found will be thrust through,

and whoever is caught will fall by the sword.

^16bTheir infants will be dashed in pieces

before their eyes;

their houses will be plundered

and their wives ravished.