Look, the Lord’s day of judgment is coming; it is a day of cruelty and savage, raging anger, destroying the earth and annihilating its sinners.

For I looked forward to the day of vengeance, and then payback time arrived.

So the Lord cut off Israel’s head and tail, both the shoots and stalk in one day.

Proud men will be brought low, arrogant men will be humiliated; the Lord alone will be exalted in that day.

I, the Lord, protect it; I water it regularly. I guard it night and day, so no one can harm it.

Proud men will be humiliated, arrogant men will be brought low; the Lord alone will be exalted in that day.

For the Lord has planned a day of revenge, a time when he will repay Edom for her hostility toward Zion.

to announce the year when the Lord will show his favor, the day when our God will seek vengeance, to console all who mourn,

The day you begin cultivating, you do what you can to make it grow; the morning you begin planting, you do what you can to make it sprout. Yet the harvest will disappear in the day of disease and incurable pain.

Wail, for the Lord’s day of judgment is near; it comes with all the destructive power of the sovereign judge.

I cry out until morning; like a lion he shatters all my bones; you turn day into night and end my life.

Indeed, the Lord who commands armies has planned a day of judgment, for all the high and mighty, for all who are proud – they will be humiliated;

Wild dogs will yip in her ruined fortresses, jackals will yelp in the once-splendid palaces. Her time is almost up, her days will not be prolonged.

I post watchmen on your walls, O Jerusalem; they should keep praying all day and all night. You who pray to the Lord, don’t be silent!

I spread out my hands all day long to my rebellious people, who lived in a way that is morally unacceptable, and who did what they desired.

Is this really the kind of fasting I want? Do I want a day when people merely humble themselves, bowing their heads like a reed and stretching out on sackcloth and ashes? Is this really what you call a fast, a day that is pleasing to the Lord?

This very day, standing in Nob, they shake their fist at Daughter Zion’s mountain – at the hill of Jerusalem.

Then the guard cries out: “On the watchtower, O sovereign master, I stand all day long; at my post I am stationed every night.

When you summon her for divorce, you prosecute her; he drives her away with his strong wind in the day of the east wind.

Night and day it will burn; its smoke will ascend continually. Generation after generation it will be a wasteland and no one will ever pass through it again.