And what will you do in the day of visitation, and in the desolation which shall come from afar? to whom will you flee for help? and where will you leave your treasures?
Behold, the day of the LORD comes, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it.
Howl, O gate; cry, O city; you, all Philistia, are dissolved: for there shall come from the north a smoke, and none shall be alone in his appointed times.
The burden of Tyre. Howl, you ships of Tarshish; for it is laid waste, so that there is no house, no entering in: from the land of Chittim it is revealed to them.
For the indignation of the LORD is upon all nations, and his fury upon all their armies: he has completely destroyed them, he has delivered them to the slaughter.
Therefore shall evil come upon you; you shall not know from where it arises: and mischief shall fall upon you; you shall not be able to put it off: and desolation shall come upon you suddenly, which you shall not know.
Now therefore, what have I here, says the LORD, that my people are taken away for nothing? those who rule over them make them to howl, says the LORD; and my name continually every day is blasphemed.
Howl, you shepherds, and cry; and roll yourselves in the ashes, you chief of the flock: for the days of your slaughter and of your scattering are accomplished; and you shall fall like a pleasant vessel.
Howl, O Heshbon, for Ai is laid waste: cry, you daughters of Rabbah, clothe yourselves with sackcloth; lament, and run to and fro by the hedges; for their king shall go into captivity, and his priests and his princes together.
Cry and howl, son of man: for it shall be upon my people, it shall be upon all the princes of Israel: terrors because of the sword shall be upon my people: strike therefore upon your thigh.
Clothe yourselves, and lament, you priests: howl, you ministers of the altar: come, lie all night in sackcloth, you ministers of my God: for the food offering and the drink offering is withheld from the house of your God.
Blow the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy mountain: let all the inhabitants of the land tremble: for the day of the LORD comes, for it is near at hand;
And the LORD shall speak forth his voice before his army: for his camp is very great: for he is strong who executes his word: for the day of the LORD is great and very terrible; and who can endure it?