12  ^tFor the Lord of hosts has a day

against all that is proud and lofty,

against all that is lifted up—and it shall be brought low;

13  ^uagainst all the cedars of Lebanon,

lofty and lifted up;

and against all the oaks of Bashan;

14  against all the lofty mountains,

and against all the uplifted hills;

15  against every high tower,

and against every fortified wall;

16  against all the ^vships of ^wTarshish,

and against all the beautiful craft.

17  And the haughtiness of man shall be humbled,

and the lofty pride of men shall be brought low,

and the Lord alone will be exalted in that day.

18  And the idols shall utterly pass away.

19  And people shall enter the caves of the rocks

and the holes of the ground,¹

from before the terror of the Lord,

and from the splendor of his majesty,

when he rises to terrify the earth.

20  ^xIn that day mankind will cast away

their idols of silver and their idols of gold,

which they made for themselves to worship,

to the moles and to the bats,

21  to enter the caverns of the rocks

and the clefts of the cliffs,

from before the terror of the Lord,

and from the splendor of his majesty,

when he rises to terrify the earth.

22  Stop regarding man

in whose nostrils is breath,

for of what account is he?

1  Behold, the Lord will empty the earth¹ and make it desolate,

and he will twist its surface and scatter its inhabitants.

2  And it shall be, ^sas with the people, so with the priest;

as with the slave, so with his master;

as with the maid, so with her mistress;

as with the buyer, so with the seller;

as with the lender, so with the borrower;

as with the creditor, so with the debtor.

3  The earth shall be utterly empty and utterly plundered;

for the Lord has spoken this word.

4  The earth mourns and withers;

the world languishes and withers;

the highest people of the earth languish.

5  The earth lies ^tdefiled

under its inhabitants;

for they have transgressed the laws,

violated the statutes,

broken the everlasting covenant.

6  Therefore a curse devours the earth,

and its inhabitants suffer for their guilt;

therefore the inhabitants of the earth are scorched,

and few men are left.

7  The wine mourns,

the vine languishes,

all the merry-hearted sigh.

8  The mirth of the tambourines is stilled,

the noise of the jubilant has ceased,

the mirth of the lyre is stilled.

9  No more do they drink wine with singing;

strong drink is bitter to those who drink it.

10  The wasted city is broken down;

every house is shut up so that none can enter.

11  There is an outcry in the streets for lack of wine;

all joy has grown dark;

the gladness of the earth is banished.

12  Desolation is left in the city;

the gates are battered into ruins.

13  For thus it shall be in the midst of the earth

among the nations,

^uas when an olive tree is beaten,

as at the gleaning when the grape harvest is done.

14  They lift up their voices, they sing for joy;

over the majesty of the Lord they shout from the west.²

15  Therefore in the east³ give glory to the Lord;

in the coastlands of the sea, ^vgive glory to the name of the Lord, the God of Israel.

16  From the ends of the earth we hear songs of praise,

of glory to the Righteous One.

But I say, “I waste away,

I waste away. Woe is me!

For ^wthe traitors have betrayed,

with betrayal the traitors have betrayed.”

17  ^xTerror and the pit and the snare⁴

are upon you, O inhabitant of the earth!

18  He who flees at the sound of the terror

shall fall into the pit,

and he who climbs out of the pit

shall be caught in the snare.

For the ^ywindows of heaven are opened,

and the foundations of the earth tremble.

19  The earth is utterly broken,

the earth is split apart,

the earth is violently shaken.

20  The earth staggers like a drunken man;

it sways like a hut;

its transgression lies heavy upon it,

and it falls, and will not rise again.

21  On that day the Lord will punish

the ^zhost of heaven, in heaven,

and the kings of the earth, on the earth.

22  They will be gathered together

as prisoners in a pit;

they will be shut up in a prison,

and after many days they will be punished.

23  Then the ^amoon will be confounded

and the sun ashamed,

for the Lord of hosts ^breigns

on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem,

and his glory will be before his elders.