¹⁰ “On that day,” declares the Lord,
    “a cry will be heard from ^(U)the Fish Gate,
^(V)a wail from ^(W)the Second Quarter,
    a loud crash from the hills.
^11 (X)Wail, O inhabitants of the Mortar!
    For all the traders^[d] are no more;
    all who weigh out silver are cut off.
¹² At that time ^(Y)I will search Jerusalem with lamps,
    and I will punish the men
^(Z)who are complacent,^{[e]
    (AA)}those who say in their hearts,
‘The Lord will not do good,
    nor will he do ill.’
¹³ Their goods shall be ^(AB)plundered,
    and their houses laid waste.
^(AC)Though they build houses,
    they shall not inhabit them;
^(AD)though they plant vineyards,
    they shall not drink wine from them.”

^14 (AE)The great day of the Lord is near,
    near and hastening fast;
the sound of the day of the Lord is bitter;
    ^(AF)the mighty man cries aloud there.
^15 (AG)A day of wrath is that day,
    a day of distress and anguish,
a day of ^(AH)ruin and devastation,
    ^(AI)a day of darkness and gloom,
^(AJ)a day of clouds and thick darkness,
^{16     (AK)}a day of trumpet blast and battle cry
^(AL)against the fortified cities
    and against the lofty battlements.

^17 (AM)I will bring distress on mankind,
    so that they shall walk ^(AN)like the blind,
    because they have sinned against the Lord;
^(AO)their blood shall be poured out like dust,
    and their flesh ^(AP)like dung.
^18 (AQ)Neither their silver nor their gold
    shall be able to deliver them
    on the day of the wrath of the Lord.
^(AR)In the fire of his jealousy,
    ^(AS)all the earth shall be consumed;
^(AT)for a full and sudden end
    he will make of all the inhabitants of the earth.

⁴ Your foes have ^(K)roared in the midst of your meeting place;
    ^(L)they set up their ^(M)own signs for ^(N)signs.
⁵ They were like those who swing ^(O)axes
    in a forest of trees.^[b]
6 And all its ^(P)carved wood
    they broke down with hatchets and hammers.
⁷ They ^(Q)set your sanctuary on fire;
    they ^(R)profaned ^(S)the dwelling place of your name,
    bringing it down to the ground.
⁸ They ^(T)said to themselves, “We will utterly subdue them”;
    they burned all the meeting places of God in the land.

⁹ We do not see our ^(U)signs;
    ^(V)there is no longer any prophet,
    and there is none among us who knows how long.
¹⁰ How long, O God, ^(W)is the foe to scoff?
    Is the enemy to revile your name forever?
¹¹ Why ^(X)do you hold back your hand, your right hand?
    Take it from the fold of your garment^[c] and destroy them!

¹² Yet ^(Y)God my King is from of old,
    working salvation in the midst of the earth.
¹³ You ^(Z)divided the sea by your might;
    you ^(AA)broke the heads of ^(AB)the sea monsters^[d] on the waters.
¹⁴ You crushed the heads of ^(AC)Leviathan;
    you gave him as food for the creatures of the wilderness.
¹⁵ You ^(AD)split open springs and brooks;
    you ^(AE)dried up ever-flowing streams.
¹⁶ Yours is the day, yours also the night;
    you have established ^(AF)the heavenly lights and the sun.
¹⁷ You have ^(AG)fixed all the boundaries of the earth;
    you have made ^(AH)summer and winter.

^18 (AI)Remember this, O Lord, how the enemy scoffs,
    and ^(AJ)a foolish people reviles your name.
¹⁹ Do not deliver the soul of your ^(AK)dove to the wild beasts;
    ^(AL)do not forget the life of your poor forever.

²⁰ Have regard for ^(AM)the covenant,
    for ^(AN)the dark places of the land are full of the habitations of violence.
²¹ Let not ^(AO)the downtrodden ^(AP)turn back in shame;
    let ^(AQ)the poor and needy praise your name.

²² Arise, O God, ^(AR)defend your cause;
    ^(AS)remember how the foolish scoff at you all the day!
²³ Do not forget the clamor of your foes,
    ^(AT)the uproar of those who rise against you, which goes up continually!