1. The burden of Babylon, which Isaiah the son of Amoz saw:
2. Set up a banner on the bare mountain! Lift up your voice to them! Wave your hand, that they may go into the gates of the nobles.
3. I have commanded my consecrated ones; yes, I have called my mighty men for my anger, even my proudly exulting ones.
4. The noise of a multitude is in the mountains, as of a great people; the noise of an uproar of the kingdoms of the nations gathered together! Yahweh of Armies is mustering the army for the battle.
5. They come from a far country, from the uttermost part of heaven, even Yahweh, and the weapons of his indignation, to destroy the whole land.
6. Wail; for the day of Yahweh is at hand! It will come as destruction from the Almighty.
7. Therefore all hands will be feeble, and everyone’s heart will melt.
8. They will be dismayed. Pangs and sorrows will seize them. They will be in pain like a woman in labor. They will look in amazement one at another. Their faces will be faces of flame.
9. Behold, the day of Yahweh comes, cruel, with wrath and fierce anger; to make the land a desolation, and to destroy its sinners out of it.