⁹ Behold, ^(A)the day of the Lord comes,
    cruel, with wrath and fierce anger,
to make the land a desolation
    and ^(B)to destroy its sinners from it.

¹⁵ Alas for the day!
^(A)For the day of the Lord is near,
    and as destruction from the Almighty^[a] it comes.