2 “Lift up a banner on the high mountain, raise your voice to them; wave your hand, let them enter the gates of the nobles.
3 “I have commanded My set-apart ones; I have also called My mighty men for My displeasure, My proudly exulting ones.”
4 The noise of an uproar in the mountains, like that of many people! A noise of uproar of the reigns of gentiles gathered together! יהוה of hosts is gathering an army for battle.
5 They are coming from a distant land, from the end of the heavens, even יהוה and His weapons of displeasure, to destroy all the earth.
6 Howl, for the day of יהוה is near! It comes as a destruction from the Almighty.
7 Therefore all hands go limp, every man’s heart melts,
8 and they shall be afraid. Pangs and sorrows take hold of them, they are in pain as a woman in labour; they are amazed at one another, their faces aflame!