5 They come from a far country, from the end of the heavens; the LORD, and the weapons of his indignation, to destroy the whole earth.

6 Howl ye; for the day of the LORD ’is at hand; it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty.

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.

3 ﬁn. Or, ‘my proudly exulting ones.’5 fin. ‘earth’: or, ‘land.’6 ﬁn. ‘as Shod from Shaddai.’

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.