¹² For the Lord of hosts will have a day of reckoning
Against ^(A)everyone who is proud and lofty
And against everyone who is lifted up,
That he may be abased.

³ Now ^(A)what will you do in the ^(B)day of punishment,
And in the devastation which will come ^(C)from afar?
^(D)To whom will you flee for help?
And where will you leave your ^[a]wealth?

⁹ Behold, ^(A)the day of the Lord is coming,
Cruel, with fury and burning anger,
To make the land a desolation;
And He will exterminate its sinners from it.

² For the Lord’s ^(A)indignation is against all the nations,
And His wrath against all their armies;
He has ^[a](B)utterly destroyed them,
He has given them over to ^(C)slaughter.

⁸ For the Lord has a day of ^(A)vengeance,
A year of recompense for the ^[a]cause of Zion.

² To ^(A)proclaim the favorable year of the Lord
And the ^(B)day of vengeance of our God;
To ^(C)comfort all who mourn,

³ “For the day is near,
Even ^(A)the day of the Lord is near;
It will be a day of ^(B)clouds,
A time of doom for the nations.