1. Blow a ram’s horn in Tsiyon, and sound an alarm in My set-apart mountain! Let all the inhabitants of the earth tremble, for the day of יהוה is coming, for it is near:
2. a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and thick darkness, like the morning clouds spread over the mountains – a people many and strong, the like of whom has never been, nor shall there ever be again after them, to the years of many generations.
3. Ahead of them a fire has consumed, and behind them a flame burns. Before them the land is like the Garden of Ěḏen, and behind them a desert waste. And from them there is no escape.
4. Their appearance is like the appearance of horses, and they run like steeds.
5. As the noise of chariots they leap over mountaintops, as the noise of a flaming fire consuming stubble, as a mighty people set in battle array.
6. Before them peoples are in anguish, all faces become flushed.
7. They run like mighty men, they climb the wall like men of battle, every one goes on his way, and they do not break ranks.
8. And they do not press one another, every one goes in his path. They fall among the weapons, but they do not stop.
9. They rush on the city, they run on the wall. They climb into the houses, they enter at the windows like a thief.