1. The oracle of Babylon that Isaiah son of Amoz saw:
2. Raise a signal on a bare hill, lift up your voice to them; wave the hand and may they enter the gateways of the noblemen.
3. I myself I have commanded my consecrated ones, I have also summoned my mighty warriors concerning my anger, the ones who exalt over my majesty.
4. A sound, a noise is on the mountains, the likeness of many people! A sound of the roar of the kingdoms, of nations gathering! Yahweh of hosts is mustering an army for battle.
5. They are coming from a distant land, from the end of the heavens, Yahweh and the weapons of his indignation, to destroy the whole earth.
6. Wail, for the day of Yahweh is near; it will come like destruction from Shaddai!
7. Therefore all hands will grow slack, and every human heart will melt,
8. and they will be dismayed. Pangs and labor pains will seize them; they will tremble like a woman giving birth. They will stare at one another, their faces flushing.
9. Look! The day of Yahweh is coming, cruel and wrath and the burning of anger, to make the earth a desolation, and he will destroy its sinners from it.
10. For the stars of the heavens and their constellations will not flash forth their light; the sun will keep back when it comes out, and the moon will not cause its light to shine.