8 They will be horrified;pain and agony will seize them;they will be in anguish like a woman in labor. They will look at each other,their faces flushed with fear.
9 Look, the day of the Lord is coming —cruel, with rage and burning anger —to make the earth a desolationand to destroy the sinners on it.
10 Indeed, the stars of the sky and its constellations will not give their light.The sun will be dark when it rises,and the moon will not shine.
11 I will bring disaster on the world,and their own iniquity, on the wicked.I will put an end to the pride of the arrogant and humiliate the insolence of tyrants.
12 I will make man scarcer than gold,and mankind more rare than the gold of Ophir.
13 Therefore I will make the heavens tremble,and the earth will shake from its foundations at the wrath of the Lord of Hosts,on the day of His burning anger.
14 Like wandering gazellesand like sheep without a shepherd, each one will turn to his own people,each one will flee to his own land.