Zephaniah 1:14-18

14

The great day of the Lord is near,

    near and hastening fast;

the sound of the day of the Lord is bitter;

    the mighty man cries aloud there.

15 

A day of wrath is that day,

    a day of distress and anguish,

a day of ruin and devastation,

    a day of darkness and gloom,

a day of clouds and thick darkness,

16 

    a day of trumpet blast and battle cry

against the fortified cities

    and against the lofty battlements.

17 

I will bring distress on mankind,

    so that they shall walk like the blind,

    because they have sinned against the Lord;

their blood shall be poured out like dust,

    and their flesh like dung.

18 

Neither their silver nor their gold

    shall be able to deliver them

    on the day of the wrath of the Lord.

In the fire of his jealousy,

    all the earth shall be consumed;

for a full and sudden end

    he will make of all the inhabitants of the earth.