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.
^10 (C)For the stars of the heavens and their constellations
    will not give their light;
^(D)the sun will be dark at its rising,
    and the moon will not shed its light.
¹¹ I will punish ^(E)the world for its evil,
    and the wicked for their iniquity;
I will ^(F)put an end to the pomp of the arrogant,
    ^(G)and lay low the pompous pride of the ruthless.
¹² I will make ^(H)people more rare than fine gold,
    and mankind than the ^(I)gold of Ophir.
¹³ Therefore ^(J)I will make the heavens tremble,
    and the earth will be shaken out of its place,
at the wrath of the Lord of hosts
    in the day of his fierce anger.
¹⁴ And like a hunted gazelle,
    or like sheep with none to gather them,
^(K)each will turn to his own people,
    and each will flee to his own land.
¹⁵ Whoever is found will be thrust through,
    and whoever is caught will fall by the sword.
^16 (L)Their infants will be dashed in pieces
    before their eyes;
their houses will be plundered
    and their wives ravished.