So I will kindle a fire in the wall of Rabbah, and it shall devour her strongholds, with shouting on the day of battle, with a tempest in the day of the whirlwind;

and he who is stout of heart among the mighty shall flee away naked in that day,” declares the Lord.

“that on the day I punish Israel for his transgressions, I will punish the altars of Bethel, and the horns of the altar shall be cut off and fall to the ground.

He who made the Pleiades and Orion, and turns deep darkness into the morning and darkens the day into night, who calls for the waters of the sea and pours them out on the surface of the earth, the Lord is his name;

Let Justice Roll Down

Woe to you who desire the day of the Lord! Why would you have the day of the Lord? It is darkness, and not light,

Is not the day of the Lord darkness, and not light, and gloom with no brightness in it?

O you who put far away the day of disaster and bring near the seat of violence?

The Coming Day of Bitter Mourning

This is what the Lord God showed me: behold, a basket of summer fruit.

The songs of the temple shall become wailings in that day,” declares the Lord God. “So many dead bodies!” “They are thrown everywhere!” “Silence!”

“And on that day,” declares the Lord God, “I will make the sun go down at noon and darken the earth in broad daylight.

I will turn your feasts into mourning and all your songs into lamentation; I will bring sackcloth on every waist and baldness on every head; I will make it like the mourning for an only son and the end of it like a bitter day.

“In that day the lovely virgins and the young men shall faint for thirst.

The Restoration of Israel

“In that day I will raise up the booth of David that is fallen and repair its breaches, and raise up its ruins and rebuild it as in the days of old,