2 Blow the trumpet^[a] in Zion,
    and sound the alarm on my holy mountain!^[b]
Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble,
    for the day of Yahweh is coming
        —it is indeed near.
² A day of darkness and gloom,
    a day of cloud and thick darkness,
like the dawn spreads on the mountains,
    a great and strong army!
There has been nothing like it from old,
    and after it nothing will be again for generations to come.^[c]
3 Before them^[d] a fire devours,
    and behind them a flame burns.
Like the garden of Eden is the land before them,^[e]
    and after them it is like a desolate desert,
    and nothing can escape them.