Isaiah 13:4-17

Listen, a commotion on the mountains, like that of a mighty people! Listen, an uproar among the kingdoms, like nations being gathered together! The LORD of Armies is mobilizing an army for war. They are coming from a distant land, from the farthest horizon — the LORD and the weapons of his wrath — to destroy the whole country.  Wail! For the day of the  LORD is near.  It will come as destruction from the Almighty.  Therefore everyone’s hands will become weak, and every man will lose heart. They will be horrified; pain and agony will seize them; they will be in anguish like a woman in labor.  They will look at each other, their faces flushed with fear. Look, the day  of the  LORD is coming — cruel, with fury and burning anger — to make the earth a desolation and to destroy its sinners.  Indeed, the stars of the sky and its constellations  will not give their light. The sun will be dark when it rises, and the moon will not shine.  I will punish the world for its evil,  and wicked people for their iniquities. I will put an end to the pride of the arrogant  and humiliate the insolence of tyrants. I will make a human more scarce than fine gold, and mankind more rare than the gold of Ophir.  Therefore I will make the heavens tremble, and the earth will shake from its foundations  at the wrath of the  LORD of Armies, on the day of his burning anger. Like wandering gazelles and like sheep without a shepherd,  each one will turn to his own people, each one will flee to his own land. Whoever is found will be stabbed, and whoever is caught will die by the sword. Their children will be dashed to pieces before their eyes;  their houses will be looted, and their wives raped. Look! I am stirring up the Medes against them,  who cannot be bought off with   silver and who have no desire for gold.