Hear this, O elders,
Listen closely, all inhabitants of the land!
Has such a thing as this occurred in your days,
Or even in the days of your fathers?

Make thy moan as a virgin doth that girdeth herself with sack, because of her bridegroom.

Blow out the trumpet in Zion, and cry upon my holy hill: that all such as dwell in the land, may tremble at it. For the day of the LORD cometh, and is hard at hand:

a day of darkness and gloom,
a day of clouds and dense overcast,
like the dawn spreading over the mountains;
a great and strong people appears,
such as never existed in ages past
and never will again
in all the generations to come.

The earth quakes before them;
the sky shakes.
The sun and moon grow dark,
and the stars cease their shining.

Gather the people, sanctify the congregation, assemble the elders, gather the children, and those that suck the breasts: let the bridegroom go forth of his chamber, and the bride out of her closet.

And the LORD envied for his land's sake and had compassion on his people.

I will produce portents both in the sky and on the earth -- blood, fire, and columns of smoke.