1. The burden of Babylon, which Isaiah the son of Amoz saw.
2. Lift ye up a banner as an example upon the high mountain, exalt the voice unto them, raise the hand, that they may enter in by gates of princes.
3. I have commanded my sanctified ones; I have also called my mighty ones for my anger that they might rejoice with my glory.
4. The noise of a multitude in the mountains like as of a great people; a tumultuous noise of kingdoms, of Gentiles gathered together: the Lord of the hosts orders the host of the battle.
5. They come from a far land, from the end of the heavens, even the Lord, and the instruments of his indignation, to destroy the whole earth.
6. Howl; for the day of the Lord is at hand; it shall come as destruction from the Almighty.
7. Therefore all hands shall be faint, and every heart of man shall melt:
8. And they shall be filled with terror; anguish and pain shall take hold of them; they shall be in pain as a woman that travails: they shall be amazed one at another; their faces shall be as flames.
9. Behold, the day of the Lord comes, cruel and with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the earth desolate; and he shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it.
10. For this reason the stars of the heavens and the lights thereof shall not shine: the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not give forth her light.
11. And I will visit evil upon the world and iniquity upon the wicked, and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease and will lay low the haughtiness of the strong.
12. I will make the noble man more precious than fine gold and man more than the gold of Ophir.