23:013:004 The noise of a multitude in the mountains, like as of a great people; a tumultuous noise of the kingdoms of nations gathered together: the LORD of hosts mustereth the host of the battle. 23:013:005 They come from a far country, from the end of heaven, even the LORD, and the weapons of his indignation, to destroy the whole land. 23:013:006 Howl ye; for the day of the LORD is at hand; it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty. 23:013:007 Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every man's heart shall melt: 23:013:008 And they shall be afraid: pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them; they shall be in pain as a woman that travaileth: they shall be amazed one at another; their faces shall be as flames. 23:013:009 Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it. 23:013:010 For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light: the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine. 23:013:011 And I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible. 23:013:012 I will make a man more precious than fine gold; even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir. 23:013:013 Therefore I will shake the heavens, and the earth shall remove out of her place, in the wrath of the LORD of hosts, and in the day of his fierce anger. 23:013:014 And it shall be as the chased roe, and as a sheep that no man taketh up: they shall every man turn to his own people, and flee every one into his own land. 23:013:015 Every one that is found shall be thrust through; and every one that is joined unto them shall fall by the sword. 23:013:016 Their children also shall be dashed to pieces before their eyes; their houses shall be spoiled, and their wives ravished. 23:013:017 Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, which shall not regard silver; and as for gold, they shall not delight in it. 23:013:018 Their bows also shall dash the young men to pieces; and they shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb; their eyes shall not spare children. 23:013:019 And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldees' excellency, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. 23:013:020 It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation: neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there; neither shall the shepherds make their fold there.