Isaiah 13:6–16

⁶Wail, for the day of the Lord is near;

it will come like destruction from the Almighty!^u*

⁷Therefore all hands will be feeble,

and every human heart will melt,^*

⁸and they will be terrified.

Pangs and agony will seize them;

they will be in anguish like a woman in labor.

They will look aghast at one another;

their faces will be aflame.^*

⁹See, the day of the Lord is coming,

cruel, with wrath and fierce anger,

to make the earth a desolation

and to destroy its sinners from it.^*

¹⁰For the stars of the heavens and their constellations

will not give their light;

the sun will be dark at its rising,

and the moon will not shed its light.^*

¹¹I will punish the world for its evil

and the wicked for their iniquity;

I will put an end to the pride of the arrogant

and lay low the insolence of tyrants.^*

¹²I will make mortals more rare than fine gold

and humans than the gold of Ophir.

¹³Therefore I will make the heavens tremble,

and the earth will be shaken out of its place

at the wrath of the Lord of hosts

in the day of his fierce anger.^*

¹⁴Like a gazelle on the run

or like sheep with no one to gather them,

all will turn back to their own people,

and all will flee to their own lands.^*

¹⁵Whoever is found will be thrust through,

and whoever is caught will fall by the sword.

¹⁶Their infants will be dashed to pieces

before their eyes;

their houses will be plundered

and their wives raped.^*