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² Raise a flag on the bare mountain.
    Call out to the men.
Raise your hand to signal them
    to enter through the gates for important people.
³ I myself have commanded those people
    whom I have separated as mine.
I have called those warriors to carry out my anger.
    They rejoice and are glad to do my will.

⁴ Listen to the loud noise in the mountains,
    the sound of many people.
Listen to the noise among the kingdoms,
    the sound of nations gathering together.
The Lord All-Powerful is calling
    his army together for battle.
⁵ This army is coming from a faraway land,
    from the edge of the horizon.
In anger the Lord is using this army like a weapon
    to destroy the whole country.

⁶ Cry, because the Lord's day of judging is near;
    the Almighty is sending destruction.
⁷ People will be weak with fear,
    and their courage will melt away.
⁸ Everyone will be afraid.
    Pain and hurt will grab them;
    they will hurt like a woman giving birth to a baby.
They will look at each other in fear,
    with their faces red like fire.

⁹ Look, the Lord's day of judging is coming—
    a terrible day, a day of God's anger.
He will destroy the land
    and the sinners who live in it.
¹⁰ The stars will not show their light;
    the skies will be dark.
The sun will grow dark as it rises,
    and the moon will not give its light.

¹¹ The Lord says, "I will punish the world for its evil
    and wicked people for their sins.
I will cause proud people to lose their pride,
    and I will destroy the pride of those who are cruel to others.
¹² People will be harder to find than pure gold;
    there will be fewer people than there is fine gold in Ophir.
¹³ I will make the sky shake,
    and the earth will be moved from its place
by the anger of the Lord All-Powerful
    at the time of his burning anger.

¹⁴ "Then the people from Babylon will run away like hunted deer
    or like sheep who have no shepherd.
Everyone will turn back to his own people;
    each will run back to his own land.
¹⁵ Everyone who is captured will be killed;
    everyone who is caught will be killed with a sword.
¹⁶ Their little children will be beaten to death in front of them.
    Their houses will be robbed
    and their wives raped.

¹⁷ "Look, I will cause the armies of Media to attack Babylon.
    They do not care about silver
    or delight in gold.
¹⁸ Their soldiers will shoot the young men with arrows;
    they will show no mercy on children,
    nor will they feel sorry for little ones.
¹⁹ Babylon is the most beautiful of all kingdoms,
    and the Babylonians are very proud of it.
But God will destroy it
    like Sodom and Gomorrah.
²⁰ No one will ever live there
    or settle there again.
No Arab will put a tent there;
    no shepherd will bring sheep there.
²¹ Only desert animals will live there,
    and their houses will be full of wild dogs.
Owls will live there,
    and wild goats will leap about in the houses.
²² Wolves will howl within the strong walls,
    and wild dogs will bark in the beautiful buildings.
The end of Babylon is near;
    its time is almost over."