³ What will you do on the day of punishment
when devastation comes from far away?
Who will you run to for help?
Where will you leave your wealth?

⁹ Look, the day^(A) of the Lord is coming—
cruel, with fury and burning anger—
to make the earth a desolation
and to destroy its sinners.^(B)

² The Lord is angry with all the nations,
furious with all their armies.^(A)
He will set them apart for destruction,^(B)
giving them over to slaughter.

⁸ For the Lord has a day of vengeance,^(A)
a time of paying back Edom
for its hostility against Zion.

² to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor,^(A)
and the day of our God’s vengeance;^(B)
to comfort^(C) all who mourn,

³ For a day is near;
a day belonging to the Lord is near.^(A)
It will be a day of clouds,^(B)
a time of doom^[a] for the nations.

¹⁸ Woe to you who long for the day of the Lord!^(A)
What will the day of the Lord be for you?
It will be darkness and not light.^(B)

⁷ Be silent in the presence of the Lord God,^(A)
for the day of the Lord is near.^(B)
Indeed, the Lord has prepared a sacrifice;^(C)
he has consecrated his guests.^(D)