Isaiah 13:6–16

^6oHowl ye; ^pqfor the day of the Lord is at hand;

^qIt shall come ^ras a destruction from the Almighty.

⁷Therefore shall all hands ^||be faint,

And every man’s ^sheart shall melt:

⁸And they shall be afraid: ^tpangs and ^usorrows shall take hold of them;

^uvThey shall be in pain as a woman that travaileth:

They shall ^†be amazed ^†one at another;

Their faces shall be as ^†flames.

⁹Behold, ^wthe day of the Lord cometh,

Cruel both with ^xwrath and fierce anger,

To lay the land desolate:

And ^xxhe shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it.

¹⁰For the stars of heaven and ^ythe constellations thereof shall not ^zgive their light:

^aThe sun shall be darkened in his going forth,

And ^athe moon shall not cause her light to shine.

¹¹And I will ^bpunish the world for their evil,

And the wicked for their iniquity;

And I will ^ccause the arrogancy of the proud to cease,

And will ^dlay low the haughtiness of the terrible.

^12eI will make a man ^fmore precious than ^gfine gold;

Even a man than ^hthe golden wedge of Ophir.

¹³Therefore ⁱI will shake the heavens,

And ⁱthe earth shall remove out of her place,

In ^jthe wrath of the Lord of hosts,

And ^kin the day of his ^jfierce anger.

¹⁴And it shall be as the chased roe,

And as a sheep that no man taketh up:

^lThey shall every man turn to his own people,

And flee every one into his own land.

¹⁵Every one that is found ^mshall be thrust through;

And every one that is joined unto them shall fall by the sword.

¹⁶ⁿTheir children also shall be dashed to pieces before their eyes;

^oTheir houses shall be spoiled, and ^otheir wives ravished.