Isaiah 13:6-13

Common English Bible

⁶ Wail, for the day of the Lord is near.
    Like destruction from the Almighty^[a] it will come.
⁷ Then all hands will fall limp;
    every human heart will melt,
⁸     and they will be terrified.
Like a woman writhing in labor,
    they will be seized by spasms and agony.
They will look at each other aghast,
    their faces blazing.

⁹ Look, the day of the Lord is coming with cruel rage and burning anger,
    making the earth a ruin,
    and wiping out its sinners.
¹⁰ Heaven’s stars and constellations won’t show their light.
The sun will be dark when it rises;
    the moon will no longer shine.
¹¹ I will bring disaster upon the world for its evil,
    and bring their own sin upon the wicked.
I will end the pride of the insolent,
    and the conceit of tyrants I will lay low.
¹² I will make humans scarcer than fine gold;
    people rarer than the gold of Ophir.
¹³ I will rattle the heavens;
    the earth will shake loose from its place—because of the rage
    of the Lord of heavenly forces
        on the day his anger burns.