3 I have commanded My sanctified ones; I have also called My mighty ones, For Mine anger is not upon them that rejoice in My highness."
4 The noise of the multitude in the mountains, like as of a great people! A tumultuous noise of the kingdoms of nations gathered together! The Lord of Hosts mustereth the hosts of the battle.
5 They come from a far country, from the end of heaven - Yea, the Lord and the weapons of His indignation - To destroy the whole land.
6 Howl ye, for the day of the Lord is at hand! It shall come as a destruction from the Almighty.
7 Therefore shall all hands be faint; Every man's heart shall melt,
8 And they shall be afraid. Pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them; They shall be amazed one at another; Their faces shall be as flames.
9 Behold, the day of the Lord cometh - cruel, both with wrath and fierce anger - to lay the land desolate; And He shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it.
10 For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light; The sun shall be darkened in His going forth, And the moon shall not cause her light to shine.
11 "And I will punish the world for evil and the wicked for their iniquity; I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease and will lay down the haughtiness of the terrible.
12 I will make a man more precious than fine gold, even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir.
13 Therefore I will shake the heavens and the earth shall remove out of her place in the wrath of the Lord of Hosts and in the day of His fierce anger.