So it will be on that day—this is Yahweh's declaration—that a cry of distress will come from the Fish Gate, wailing from the Second District, and a great crashing sound from the hills. Wail, inhabitants of the Market District, for all the people of Canaan will be ruined; all those who weigh out silver will be cut off. It will come about at that time that I will search Jerusalem with lamps and punish the men who have settled into their wine and say in their heart, 'Yahweh will not do anything, either good or evil.' Their wealth will become plunder, and their houses will be an abandoned devastation! They will build houses but not live in them, and plant vineyards but not drink their wine. The great day of Yahweh is near, near and hurrying quickly! The sound of the day of Yahweh will be that of a crying bitterly! That day will be a day of fury, a day of distress and, a day of storm and devastation, a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and thick darkness. will be a day of rams' horns and alarms against the fortified cities and the high battlements. For I will bring distress upon mankind, so that they will walk about like blind men since they have sinned against Yahweh. Their blood will be poured out like dust, and their inner parts like dung. Neither their silver nor their gold will be able to deliver them on the day of Yahweh's fury. In the fire of his jealousy the whole earth will be consumed, for he will bring a complete, a terrible end of all the inhabitants of the earth.
