2. Raise a banner on the bare mountaintop.Call loudly to them.Signal them with your hand to enter the nobles’ gates.
3. I’ve commanded my holy ones.I’ve called my mighty men to carry out my anger.They find joy in my triumphs.
4. Listen to the noise on the mountains.It is like the sound of a large army.It is the sound of kingdoms and nations gathering together.The Lord of Armies is assembling his army for battle.
5. His army is coming from a distant land,from the ends of heaven.The Lord is coming with the weapons of his furyto destroy the whole world.
6. Cry loudly, for the day of the Lord is near.It will come like destruction from the Almighty.
7. That is why every hand will hang limp,and everyone’s courage will fail.
8. They’ll be terrified.Pain and anguish will seize them.They’ll writhe like a woman giving birth to a child.They’ll look at one another in astonishment.Their faces will be burning red.
9. The day of the Lord is going to come.It will be a cruel day with fury and fierce anger.He will make the earth desolate.He will destroy its sinners.
10. The stars in the sky and their constellationswon’t show their light anymore.The sun will be dark when it rises.The moon won’t shine.
11. I will punish the world for its eviland the wicked for their wrongdoing.I will put an end to arrogant peopleand humble the pride of tyrants.
12. I will make people harder to find than pure goldand human beings more rare than gold from Ophir.
13. I will make heaven tremble,and the earth will be shaken from its placewhen the Lord of Armies is angry.At that time he will be very angry.
14. They’ll be like hunted gazelleand like sheep with no one to gather them.Everyone will return to his own peopleand flee to his own land.
15. Whoever is found will be stabbed to death.Whoever is captured will be executed.