Isaiah 13:6-14

6Wail, for the Lord’s day of judgment is near; it comes with all the destructive power of the sovereign judge.

7For this reason all hands hang limp, every human heart loses its courage.

8They panic – cramps and pain seize hold of them like those of a woman who is straining to give birth. They look at one another in astonishment; their faces are flushed red.

9Look, the Lord’s day of judgment is coming; it is a day of cruelty and savage, raging anger, destroying the earth and annihilating its sinners.

10Indeed the stars in the sky and their constellations no longer give out their light; the sun is darkened as soon as it rises, and the moon does not shine.

11I will punish the world for its evil, and wicked people for their sin. I will put an end to the pride of the insolent, I will bring down the arrogance of tyrants.

12I will make human beings more scarce than pure gold, and people more scarce than gold from Ophir.

13So I will shake the heavens, and the earth will shake loose from its foundation, because of the fury of the Lord who commands armies, in the day he vents his raging anger.

14Like a frightened gazelle or a sheep with no shepherd, each will turn toward home, each will run to his homeland.