Isaiah 13:6–16

⁶Wail, for the day of Yahweh is near;

it will come like destruction from Shaddai!^c

⁷Therefore all hands will grow slack,

and every human heart will melt,

⁸and 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

⁹Look! 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.

¹⁰For 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.

¹¹And 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.

¹²I will make humanity more rare than gold

and humankind more than the gold of Ophir.

¹³Therefore I will make the heavens tremble,

and the earth will quake from its place

because of the wrath of Yahweh of hosts,

and in the day his anger burns.

¹⁴And this shall happen:

like a hunted gazelle or sheep with none to gather them,^f

they will each turn to his own people,

and they will each flee to his own land.

¹⁵Everyone who is found will be pierced through,

and everyone who is carried away will fall by the sword.

¹⁶And their children will be dashed into pieces before their eyes;

their houses will be plundered, and their wives will be raped.^g