2 Lift you up a banner on the high mountain, exalt the voice to them, shake the hand, that they may go into the gates of the nobles. Compare verse4 commentaries
3 I have commanded my sanctified ones, I have also called my mighty ones for my anger, even them that rejoice in my highness. Compare verse2 commentaries
4 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 musters the host of the battle. Compare verse2 commentaries
5 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. Compare verse3 commentaries
6 Howl you; for the day of the LORD is at hand; it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty. Compare verse3 commentaries
8 And they shall be afraid: pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them; they shall be in pain as a woman that travails: they shall be amazed one at another; their faces shall be as flames. Compare verse4 commentaries
9 Behold, the day of the LORD comes, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it. Compare verse4 commentaries
10 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. Compare verse3 commentaries
11 And I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogance of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible. Compare verse4 commentaries
12 I will make a man more precious than fine gold; even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir. Compare verse3 commentaries
13 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. Compare verse3 commentaries
14 And it shall be as the chased roe, and as a sheep that no man takes up: they shall every man turn to his own people, and flee every one into his own land. Compare verse4 commentaries
15 Every one that is found shall be thrust through; and every one that is joined to them shall fall by the sword. Compare verse3 commentaries
16 Their children also shall be dashed to pieces before their eyes; their houses shall be spoiled, and their wives ravished. Compare verse3 commentaries
17 Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, which shall not regard silver; and as for gold, they shall not delight in it. Compare verse5 commentaries
18 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. Compare verse4 commentaries
19 And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldees' excellency, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. Compare verse2 commentaries
20 It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelled in from generation to generation: neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there; neither shall the shepherds make their fold there. Compare verse2 commentaries
21 But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and owls shall dwell there, and satyrs shall dance there. Compare verse3 commentaries
22 And the wild beasts of the islands shall cry in their desolate houses, and dragons in their pleasant palaces: and her time is near to come, and her days shall not be prolonged. Compare verse2 commentaries