4. The noise of an uproar in the mountains, like that of many people! A noise of uproar of the reigns of gentiles gathered together! יהוה of hosts is gathering an army for battle.
5. They are coming from a distant land, from the end of the heavens, even יהוה and His weapons of displeasure, to destroy all the earth.
6. Howl, for the day of יהוה is near! It comes as a destruction from the Almighty.
7. Therefore all hands go limp, every man’s heart melts,
8. and they shall be afraid. Pangs and sorrows take hold of them, they are in pain as a woman in labour; they are amazed at one another, their faces aflame!
9. See, the day of יהוה is coming, fierce, with wrath and heat of displeasure, to lay the earth waste, and destroy its sinners from it.
10. For the stars of the heavens and their constellations do not give off their light. The sun shall be dark at its rising, and the moon not send out its light.
11. “And I shall punish the world for its evil, and the wrong for their crookedness, and shall put an end to the arrogance of the proud, and lay low the pride of the ruthless.
12. “I shall make mortal man scarcer than fine gold, and mankind scarcer than the gold of Ophir.