Isaiah 13:6–16

⁶Wail, for the ^aday of Yahweh is near!

It will come as ^bdestruction from ¹the Almighty.

⁷Therefore ^aall hands will fall limp,

And every man’s ^bheart will melt.

⁸They will be ^aterrified,

Pains and labor pangs will take hold of them;

They will ^bwrithe like a woman in labor,

They will look at one another in astonishment,

Their faces aflame.

⁹Behold, ^athe day of Yahweh is coming,

Cruel, with fury and burning anger,

To make the land a desolation;

And He will exterminate its sinners from it.

¹⁰For the ^astars of heaven and their constellations

Will not flash forth their light;

The ^bsun will be dark when it rises

And the moon will not shed its light.

¹¹Thus I will ^apunish the world for its evil

And the ^bwicked for their iniquity;

I will also put an end to the ^cpride of the arrogant

And bring low the ^dlofty pride of the ^1eruthless.

¹²I will make mortal man ^1ascarcer than fine gold

And mankind than the ^bgold of Ophir.

¹³Therefore I will make the ^aheavens tremble,

And ^bthe earth will be shaken from its place

At the fury of Yahweh of hosts

In ^cthe day of His burning anger.

¹⁴And it will be that like a hunted gazelle,

Or like ^asheep with none to gather them,

They will each turn to his own people,

And each one flee to his own land.

¹⁵Anyone who is found will be ^apierced through,

And anyone who is captured will fall by the sword.

¹⁶Their ^ainfants also will be dashed to pieces

Before their eyes;

Their houses will be plundered

And their wives ravished.