13. Their wealth will be looted and their houses destroyed. They will never live in the houses they are building or drink wine from the vineyards they are planting.”
14. The great day of the Lord is near — very near and coming fast! That will be a bitter day, for even the bravest soldiers will cry out in despair!
15. It will be a day of fury, a day of trouble and distress, a day of ruin and destruction, a day of darkness and gloom, a black and cloudy day,
16. a day filled with the sound of war trumpets and the battle cry of soldiers attacking fortified cities and high towers.
17. The Lord says, “I will bring such disasters on mankind that everyone will grope about like someone blind. They have sinned against me, and now their blood will be poured out like water, and their dead bodies will lie rotting on the ground.”