6 Wail, for the day of the Lord is near.Like destruction from the Almighty 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.