aBlow a trumpet in Zion,
And make a loud shout on My holy mountain!
Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble,
For the bday of Yahweh is coming;
Surely it is near,
2 A day of adarkness and thick darkness,
A day of clouds and dense gloom.
As the dawn is spread over the mountains,
So there is a bnumerous and mighty people;
There has cnever been anything like it,
Nor will there be again after it
For the years from generation to generation.
3 A afire consumes before them,
And behind them a flame burns.
The land is blike the garden of Eden before them
But a cdesolate wilderness behind them,
And nothing at all escapes them.
4 Their aappearance is like the appearance of horses;
And like war horses, so they run.
5 With a anoise as of chariots
They leap on the tops of the mountains,
Like the crackling of a bflame of fire consumes the stubble,
Like a mighty people arranged for battle.
6 Before them the peoples are awrithing;
All bfaces turn pale.
7 They run like mighty men;
They climb up the wall like men of war;
And they each amarch in line,
And they do not deviate from their paths.
8 They do not crowd each other;
They march everyone in his path;
When they fall against the defending weapons,
They do not break ranks.
9 They rush on the city;
They run on the wall;
They climb up into the ahouses;
They benter through the windows like a thief.
10 Before them the earth atrembles;
The heavens quake;
The bsun and the moon grow dark,
And the stars lose their brightness.
11 But Yahweh agives forth His voice before bHis military force;
Surely His camp is very numerous,
For cmighty is he who does His word.
The dday of Yahweh is indeed great and very awesome,
And ewho can endure it?