NSB(i)
1 The pronouncement Isaiah the son of Amoz saw in vision.
2 »Lift up a standard high on the mountain. Raise your voice to them. Shake the hand so they may enter the doors of the nobles.
3 »I have commanded my consecrated ones. I have called my mighty warriors. My proud ones are to express my anger, those who rejoice in my majesty (excellency).
4 »Listen! A sound of tumult on the mountains is like that of many people! A sound of the uproar of kingdoms and nations gathered together! Jehovah of Hosts assembles (inspects) the army for battle.
5 »They come from a far country, from the extremities of the heavens (horizons). Jehovah and his instruments of indignation come to destroy the whole land.
6 »Shout (wail) (howl) for the Day of Jehovah is near! It will come as destruction from the Almighty.
7 »All hands will fall impaired (weakened). Every man's heart will melt (courage will fail).
8 »They will be terrified! Pains and anguish will possess them. They will writhe like a woman in labor. They will look at one another in amazement with their faces reddened with excitement (aflame).
9 »Behold! The Day of Jehovah is coming! It will be cruel, with fury and burning anger. It will make the land desolation and exterminate the sinners from it.
10 »The stars of heaven and their constellations will not shine forth their light. The sun will be dark when it rises and the moon will not shine its light.
11 »I will punish the world for its evil and the wicked for their iniquity. I will also end the arrogance of the proud. I will demean (disgrace) the arrogance of tyranny.
12 »I will make mortal man harder to find than pure gold and mankind than the gold of Ophir.
13 »Therefore I will make the heavens tremble. The earth will shake from its place at the fury of Jehovah of Hosts in the day of his burning anger.
14 »They will each turn to his own people, and each one escape to his own land just like a hunted gazelle, or like sheep without a shepherd.