5. They come from a distant land,from the end of the heavens,the Lord and the weapons of his indignation,to destroy the whole land.
6. Wail, for the day of the Lord is near;as destruction from the Almighty it will come!
7. Therefore all hands will be feeble,and every human heart will melt.
8. They will be dismayed: 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.
9. Behold, the day of the Lord comes,cruel, with wrath and fierce anger,to make the land a desolationand to destroy its sinners from it.
10. For the stars of the heavens and their constellationswill not give their light; the sun will be dark at its rising,and the moon will not shed its light.
11. I will punish the world for its evil,and the wicked for their iniquity;I will put an end to the pomp of the arrogant, and lay low the pompous pride of the ruthless.
12. I will make people more rare than fine gold,and mankind than the gold of Ophir.
13. Therefore I will make the heavens tremble,and the earth will be shaken out of its place,at the wrath of the Lord of hostsin the day of his fierce anger.
14. And like a hunted gazelle,or like sheep with none to gather them, each will turn to his own people,and each will flee to his own land.