⁴ Listen! There is restlessness and rumbling on the mountains,
    as a powerful company assembles.
Listen! There is an uproar among the nations
    as they gather their might together.
The Eternal, Commander of heavenly armies,
    is mustering an army—thousands, maybe millions—for war.
⁵ They come from lands far away,
    beyond distant horizons.
That’s where the Eternal calls up His weapons of wrath—
    in order to destroy the whole land!

⁶ Cry out in terror!—the time is coming;
    the day of the Eternal is nearly here,
Violence and destruction as only God-All-Powerful can wreak.