6 Wail, for the day of Yahweh is near;

it will come like destruction from Shaddai!c

7 Therefore all hands will grow slack,

and every human heart will melt,

8 and they will be dismayed.

Pangs and labor pains will seize them;

they will tremble like a woman giving birth.

⌊They will stare at one another⌋,d

⌊their faces flushing⌋.e

9 Look! The day of Yahweh is coming,

cruel and wrath and the burning of anger,

to make the earth a desolation,

and he will destroy its sinners from it.

10 For the stars of the heavens and their constellations will not flash forth their light;

the sun will keep back when it comes out,

and the moon will not cause its light to shine.

11 And I will punish the world for its evil

and the wicked for their iniquity.

And I will put an end to the pride of the arrogant,

and I will bring the haughtiness of tyrants low.

12 I will make humanity more rare than gold

and humankind more than the gold of Ophir.