Isaiah 13:6–16

⁶Wail, ^jfor the day of the Lord is at hand!

^kIt will come as destruction from the Almighty.

⁷Therefore all hands will be limp,

Every man’s heart will melt,

⁸And they will be afraid.

^lPangs ⁴and sorrows will take hold of them;

They will be in pain as a woman in childbirth;

They will be amazed at one another;

Their faces will be like flames.

⁹Behold, ^mthe day of the Lord comes,

Cruel, with both wrath and fierce anger,

To lay the land desolate;

And He will destroy ⁿits sinners from it.

¹⁰For the stars of heaven and their constellations

Will not give their light;

The sun will be ^odarkened in its going forth,

And the moon will not cause its light to shine.

¹¹“I will ^ppunish the world for its evil,

And the wicked for their iniquity;

^qI will halt the arrogance of the proud,

And will lay low the haughtiness of the ⁵terrible.

¹²I will make a mortal more rare than fine gold,

A man more than the golden wedge of Ophir.

^13rTherefore I will shake the heavens,

And the earth will move out of her place,

In the wrath of the Lord of hosts

And in ^sthe day of His fierce anger.

¹⁴It shall be as the hunted gazelle,

And as a sheep that no man ⁶takes up;

^tEvery man will turn to his own people,

And everyone will flee to his own land.

¹⁵Everyone who is found will be thrust through,

And everyone who is captured will fall by the sword.

¹⁶Their children also will be ^udashed to pieces before their eyes;

Their houses will be plundered

And their wives ^vravished.