¹⁴ Therefore, I will set fire to the walls of Rabbah,^(A)
and it will consume its citadels.
There will be shouting on the day of battle^(B)
and a violent wind on the day of the storm.^(C)

¹⁸ Woe to you who long for the day of the Lord!^(A)
What will the day of the Lord be for you?
It will be darkness and not light.^(B)
19 It will be like a man who flees from a lion^(C)
only to have a bear confront him.
He goes home and rests his hand against the wall
only to have a snake bite him.
²⁰ Won’t the day of the Lord
be darkness rather than light,^(D)
even gloom without any brightness in it?^(E)

¹² Do not^[a] gloat over your brother^(A)
in the day of his calamity;
do not rejoice over the people of Judah^(B)
in the day of their destruction;
do not boastfully mock^[b](C)
in the day of distress.^(D)
13 Do not enter my people’s city gate
in the day of their disaster.^(E)
Yes, you—do not gloat over their misery
in the day of their disaster,
and do not appropriate their possessions^(F)
in the day of their disaster.
¹⁴ Do not stand at the crossroads^[c](G)
to cut off their fugitives,
and do not hand over their survivors
in the day of distress.