1 Blow the trumpet in Zion;sound the alarm signal on my holy mountain!Let all the inhabitants of the land shake with fear,for the day of the Lord is about to come.Indeed, it is near!
2 It will be a day of dreadful darkness,a day of foreboding storm clouds,like blackness spread over the mountains.It is a huge and powerful army – there has never been anything like it ever before,and there will not be anything like it for many generations to come!
3 Like fire they devour everything in their path;a flame blazes behind them. The land looks like the Garden of Eden before them,but behind them there is only a desolate wilderness – for nothing escapes them!
4 They look like horses;they charge ahead like war horses.
5 They sound like chariots rumbling over mountain tops,like the crackling of blazing fire consuming stubble,like the noise of a mighty army being drawn up for battle.
6 People writhe in fear when they see them.All of their faces turn pale with fright.