¹⁰ “On that day,” declares the Lord,
    “a cry will be heard from ^(U)the Fish Gate,
^(V)a wail from ^(W)the Second Quarter,
    a loud crash from the hills.
^11 (X)Wail, O inhabitants of the Mortar!
    For all the traders^[d] are no more;
    all who weigh out silver are cut off.
¹² At that time ^(Y)I will search Jerusalem with lamps,
    and I will punish the men
^(Z)who are complacent,^{[e]
    (AA)}those who say in their hearts,
‘The Lord will not do good,
    nor will he do ill.’
¹³ Their goods shall be ^(AB)plundered,
    and their houses laid waste.
^(AC)Though they build houses,
    they shall not inhabit them;
^(AD)though they plant vineyards,
    they shall not drink wine from them.”

^14 (AE)The great day of the Lord is near,
    near and hastening fast;
the sound of the day of the Lord is bitter;
    ^(AF)the mighty man cries aloud there.
^15 (AG)A day of wrath is that day,
    a day of distress and anguish,
a day of ^(AH)ruin and devastation,
    ^(AI)a day of darkness and gloom,
^(AJ)a day of clouds and thick darkness,
^{16     (AK)}a day of trumpet blast and battle cry
^(AL)against the fortified cities
    and against the lofty battlements.

^17 (AM)I will bring distress on mankind,
    so that they shall walk ^(AN)like the blind,
    because they have sinned against the Lord;
^(AO)their blood shall be poured out like dust,
    and their flesh ^(AP)like dung.
^18 (AQ)Neither their silver nor their gold
    shall be able to deliver them
    on the day of the wrath of the Lord.
^(AR)In the fire of his jealousy,
    ^(AS)all the earth shall be consumed;
^(AT)for a full and sudden end
    he will make of all the inhabitants of the earth.

⁵ Woe to ^(BE)you inhabitants of the seacoast,
    you nation of ^(BF)the Cherethites!
^(BG)The word of the Lord is against you,
    ^(BH)O Canaan, land of the Philistines;
    and I will destroy you ^(BI)until no inhabitant is left.
^6 (BJ)And you, O seacoast, ^(BK)shall be pastures,
    with meadows^[h] for shepherds
    and folds for flocks.
^7 (BL)The seacoast shall become the possession
    of ^(BM)the remnant of the house of Judah,
    ^(BN)on which they shall graze,
and in the houses of Ashkelon
    they shall lie down at evening.
For the Lord their God ^(BO)will be mindful of them
    and ^(BP)restore their fortunes.

⁸ “I have heard ^(BQ)the taunts of Moab
    and ^(BR)the revilings of the Ammonites,
how they have taunted my people
    and made boasts ^(BS)against their territory.
⁹ Therefore, ^(BT)as I live,” declares the Lord of hosts,
    the God of Israel,
“Moab shall become ^(BU)like Sodom,
    and the Ammonites ^(BV)like Gomorrah,
a land possessed by nettles and salt pits,
    and a waste forever.
The remnant of my people shall plunder them,
    and the survivors of my nation shall possess them.”
¹⁰ This shall be their lot in return ^(BW)for their pride,
    because they taunted and boasted
    against the people of the Lord of hosts.
¹¹ The Lord will be awesome against them;
    ^(BX)for he will famish all the gods of the earth,
and ^(BY)to him shall bow down,
    each in its place,
    all ^(BZ)the lands of the nations.

^12 (CA)You also, O Cushites,
    shall be slain by my sword.

¹³ And he will stretch out his hand against the north
    ^(CB)and destroy Assyria,
and he ^(CC)will make Nineveh a desolation,
    a dry waste like the desert.
^14 (CD)Herds shall lie down in her midst,
    all kinds of beasts;^[i]
(CE)even the owl and the hedgehog^[j]
    shall lodge in her capitals;
a voice shall hoot in the window;
    devastation will be on the threshold;
    for ^(CF)her cedar work will be laid bare.
¹⁵ This is the exultant city
    ^(CG)that lived securely,
that said in her heart,
    “I am, and there is no one else.”
What a desolation she has become,
    ^(CH)a lair for wild beasts!
^(CI)Everyone who passes by her
    hisses and ^(CJ)shakes his fist.