Isaiah 13:6–16

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

as destruction from the Almighty it will come!

⁷Therefore all hands will be feeble,

and every man’s heart will melt,

⁸and they will be dismayed.

Pangs and agony will seize them;

they will be in anguish like a woman in travail.

They will look aghast at one another;

their faces will be aflame.

⁹Behold, the day of the Lord comes,

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 haughtiness of the ruthless.

¹²I will make men more rare than fine gold,

and mankind 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.

¹⁴And like a hunted gazelle,

or like sheep with none to gather them,

every man will turn to his own people,

and every man will flee to his own land.

¹⁵Whoever is found will be thrust through,

and whoever is caught will fall by the sword.

¹⁶Their infants will be dashed in pieces

before their eyes;

their houses will be plundered

and their wives ravished.