7 Therefore shall all hands be slack, and every ’s heart shall melt,
8 And they shall be dismayed: pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them; they shall writhe as a travailing woman; they shall look aghast one at another: faces of flame are their faces.
9 Behold, the ’day of the LORD cometh, cruel, and wrath and fierce anger, to make the earth a desolation, and he will destroy the sinners thereof out of it.
10 For the stars of heaven, and the Orions thereof, shall not give forth their light; the sun shall be dark at his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine.
11 And I will punish the world for evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.
12 I will make a man more precious than fine gold, and man- kind than the (pure) gold of. Ophir.
13 Therefore will make the heavens tremble, and the earth shall be disquieted from her place, at the wrath of the LORD of Hosts, and in the day of the heat of his anger.
14 And it shall be as (with) a chased roe; and as sheep, and there is none that gathereth; they shall every man turn to his own people, and flee everyone to his own land.
15. Everyone that is found shall be thrust through, and every- one that is taken shall fall by the sword.
16 And their infants shall be dashed to pieces before their eyes; their houses shall be spoiled, and their wives ravished.
17 Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, which shall not regard silver; and as for gold, they shall not delight in it.
18 And bows shall dash youths in pieces; and they shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb; their eye shall not have mercy on children.
19 And Babylon, the beauty of kingdoms, the glory of the pride of the Chaldees, shall be as ’s overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah.
20 It shall not inhabited for ever, neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation; neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there, neither shall shepherds make (flocks) to lie down dwarf. But desert creatures shall lie there; and their houses shall groaners fill; and ostriches shall dwell there; and shaggy beasts shall dance there.
22 And wolves shall howl in their castles, and jackals in palaces ’of pleasure; and her time is near to come, and her days shall not be prolonged.
XIV. 1 For the LORD will have compassion on Jacob, and will yet (again) choose Israel, and set them on their own ground: and the stranger shall join himself unto them, and they shall cleave to the house of Jacob.
2 And peoples shall take them, and bring them to their place and the house of Israel shall take them as their possession upon the ’s ground for servants and for handmaids; and they shall be captors to their captors 3 and they shall rule over their oppressors.
3 And it shall be in that day that the LORD giveth thee rest from thy pain and thy disquiet, and from the hard bondage which was laid upon thee,
4 That thou shalt take up this ’parable over the king Of Babylon, and say, How hath the oppressor ceased, the insolence ceased!
5 The LORD hath broken the staff of the the rod of rulers,