⁶ “I have cut off nations,
Their fortresses are devastated;
I have made their streets desolate,
With none passing by.
Their cities are destroyed;
There is no one, no inhabitant.

⁶ Wail, ^(A)for the day of the Lord is at hand!
^(B)It will come as destruction from the Almighty.
⁷ Therefore all hands will be limp,
Every man’s heart will melt,
⁸ And they will be afraid.
^(C)Pangs^[a] and sorrows will take hold of them;
They will be in pain as a woman in childbirth;
They will be amazed at one another;
Their faces will be like flames.

²¹ It shall come to pass in that day
That the Lord will punish on high the host of exalted ones,
And on the earth ^(A)the kings of the earth.

⁴ For behold, ^(A)the kings assembled,
They passed by together.
⁵ They saw it, and so they marveled;
They were troubled, they hastened away.
⁶ Fear ^(B)took hold of them there,
And pain, as of a woman in birth pangs,

¹⁰ Now therefore, be wise, O kings;
Be instructed, you judges of the earth.