6. Wail, for the day of the Lord is near;as destruction from the Almighty it will come!
7. Therefore all hands will be feeble,and every human heart will melt.
8. They will be dismayed: pangs and agony will seize them; they will be in anguish like a woman in labor.They will look aghast at one another;their faces will be aflame.
9. Behold, the day of the Lord comes,cruel, with wrath and fierce anger,to make the land a desolationand to destroy its sinners from it.
10. For the stars of the heavens and their constellationswill not give their light; the sun will be dark at its rising,and the moon will not shed its light.
11. I will punish the world for its evil,and the wicked for their iniquity;I will put an end to the pomp of the arrogant, and lay low the pompous pride of the ruthless.