Isaiah 13:6–16

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

It will come like destruction from the Almighty. ^u

⁷Therefore everyone’s hands will become weak,

and every man’s heart will melt.

⁸They will be horrified;

pain and agony will seize them;

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

They will look at each other,

their faces flushed with fear.

⁹Look, the day ^wof the Lord is coming—

cruel, with rage and burning anger—

to make the earth a desolation

and to destroy the sinners on it. ^x

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

will not give their light.

The sun will be dark when it rises,

and the moon will not shine. ^z

¹¹I will bring disaster on the world,

and their own iniquity, ^aon the wicked.

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

and humiliate the insolence of tyrants.

¹²I will make man scarcer than gold,

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

¹³Therefore I will make the heavens tremble,

and the earth will shake from its foundations ^d

at the wrath of the Lord of Hosts,

on the day of His burning anger.

¹⁴Like wandering gazelles

and like sheep without a shepherd, ^e

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 smashed to death before their eyes; ^f

their houses will be looted,

and their wives raped.