1. Blow the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy mountain; let all the inhabitants of the land tremble: for the day of Jehovah cometh, for it is at hand;
2. a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and gross darkness, as the dawn spread upon the mountains; --a great people and a strong; there hath not been ever the like, neither shall be any more after them, to the years of generations and generations.
3. A fire devoureth before them, and behind them a flame burneth; the land is as a garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness: yea, and nothing escapeth them.
4. The appearance of them is as the appearance of horses; and as horsemen, so they run.
5. Like the noise of chariots, on the tops of the mountains, they leap; like the noise of a flame of fire that devoureth the stubble, as a strong people set in battle array.
6. Before them the peoples are in anguish: all faces turn pale.
7. They run like mighty men; they climb the wall like men of war; and they march every one on his ways, and break not their ranks.
8. Neither doth one press upon another; they march every one in his path; and fall amid weapons, but are not wounded.
9. They spread themselves over the city; they run upon the wall; they climb up into the houses; they enter in by the windows like a thief.