Today is a day of affliction, and reproach, and rebuke, and anger; for the pangs have come upon the travailing [woman], but she has not the strength to bring forth.

And they said to him, Thus says Hezekiah: This day [is] a day of tribulation and rebuke and provocation; for the children have come to the birth, but the mother has no strength.

For that day is great, and there is none like it; and it is a time of Jacob's trouble, but he shall be saved out of it.

Woe to you that desire the day of the Lord! What is this day of the Lord to you? Seeing that it is darkness, and not light.

Is not the day of the Lord darkness, and not light? And is not this day gloom without brightness?

And now I will tell you what I will do to My vineyard; I will take away its hedge, and it shall be for a spoil; and I will pull down its walls, and it shall be [left] to be trodden down.

I will send My wrath against a sinful nation, and I will command My people to take plunder and spoil, and to trample the cities, and to make dust out of them.

God will give rest on this mountain, and the country of Moab shall be trodden down, as they tread the floor with wagons.

And the business was hastened, and [that] at Susa. And the king and Haman began to drink, but the city was troubled.

therefore I will take away their goods as a devouring moth, and as one who acts by a [rigid] rule in a day of visitation. Woe, woe, your times of vengeance have come; now shall be their lamentations.

And the force of the Chaldeans pulled down the wall of Jerusalem round about.

HE. Her oppressors have become the head, and her enemies have prospered; for the Lord has afflicted her because of the multitude of her sins. Her young children have gone into captivity before the face of the oppressor.

BETH. In the day of His wrath the Lord has overwhelmed [her] as in the sea, [and] not spared. He has brought down in His fury all the beautiful things of Jacob; He has brought down to the ground the strongholds of the daughter of Judah; He has profaned her kings and her princes.

And the altars of On, the sins of Israel shall be taken away. Thorns and thistles shall come up on their altars; and they shall say to the mountains, Cover us; and to the hills, Fall on us.

then let those who are in Judea flee upon the mountains.

Then they will begin 'to say to the mountains, "Fall on us!" and to the hills, "Cover us!"'

And they said to the mountains and crags, "Fall on us and hide us from [the] face of Him that sits on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb!

For the great day of His wrath has come, and who shall be able to stand?"