LEB(i)
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.
11 And I will punish the world for its evil and the wicked for their iniquity. And I will put an end to the pride of the arrogant, and I will bring the haughtiness of tyrants low.
12 I will make humanity more rare than gold and humankind more than the gold of Ophir.
13 Therefore I will make the heavens tremble, and the earth will quake from its place because of the wrath of Yahweh of hosts, and in the day his anger burns.
14 And this shall happen:
like a hunted gazelle or sheep ⌊with none to gather them⌋,* they will each turn to his own people, and they will each flee to his own land. 15 Everyone who is found will be pierced through, and everyone who is carried away will fall by the sword. 16 And their children will be dashed into pieces before their eyes; their houses will be plundered, and their wives will be raped.* 17 Look! I am stirring the Medes up against them, who do not value silver and do not delight in gold.
like a hunted gazelle or sheep ⌊with none to gather them⌋,* they will each turn to his own people, and they will each flee to his own land. 15 Everyone who is found will be pierced through, and everyone who is carried away will fall by the sword. 16 And their children will be dashed into pieces before their eyes; their houses will be plundered, and their wives will be raped.* 17 Look! I am stirring the Medes up against them, who do not value silver and do not delight in gold.