6Send out a cry of grief; for the day of the Lord is near; it comes as destruction from the Most High.
7For this cause all hands will be feeble, and every heart of man be turned to water;
8Their hearts will be full of fear; pains and sorrows will overcome them; they will be in pain like a woman in childbirth; they will be shocked at one another; their faces will be like flames.
9See, the day of the Lord is coming, cruel, with wrath and burning passion: to make the land a waste, driving the sinners in it to destruction.
10For the stars of heaven and its bright armies will not give their light: the sun will be made dark in his journey through the heaven, and the moon will keep back her light.
11And I will send punishment on the world for its evil, and on the sinners for their wrongdoing; and I will put an end to all pride, and will make low the power of the cruel.
12I will make men so small in number, that a man will be harder to get than gold, even the best gold of Ophir.
