1. The message concerning Baḇel which Yeshayahu son of Amots saw.
2. “Lift up a banner on the high mountain, raise your voice to them; wave your hand, let them enter the gates of the nobles.
3. “I have commanded My set-apart ones; I have also called My mighty men for My displeasure, My proudly exulting ones.”
4. The noise of an uproar in the mountains, like that of many people! A noise of uproar of the reigns of gentiles gathered together! יהוה of hosts is gathering an army for battle.
5. They are coming from a distant land, from the end of the heavens, even יהוה and His weapons of displeasure, to destroy all the earth.
6. Howl, for the day of יהוה is near! It comes as a destruction from the Almighty.
7. Therefore all hands go limp, every man’s heart melts,
8. and they shall be afraid. Pangs and sorrows take hold of them, they are in pain as a woman in labour; they are amazed at one another, their faces aflame!
9. See, the day of יהוה is coming, fierce, with wrath and heat of displeasure, to lay the earth waste, and destroy its sinners from it.
10. For the stars of the heavens and their constellations do not give off their light. The sun shall be dark at its rising, and the moon not send out its light.
11. “And I shall punish the world for its evil, and the wrong for their crookedness, and shall put an end to the arrogance of the proud, and lay low the pride of the ruthless.
12. “I shall make mortal man scarcer than fine gold, and mankind scarcer than the gold of Ophir.
13. “So I shall make the heavens tremble, and the earth shall shake from her place, in the wrath of יהוה of hosts and in the day of the heat of His displeasure.
14. “And it shall be as the hunted gazelle, and as a sheep that no man takes up – every man turns to his own people, and everyone flees to his own land.