¹⁷ Gather up your bundle from the ground,
    O you who live under siege!

¹⁸ For thus says the Lord:
I am going to sling out the inhabitants of the land
    at this time,
and I will bring distress on them,
    so that they shall feel it.

¹⁵ That day will be a day of wrath,
    a day of distress and anguish,
a day of ruin and devastation,
    a day of darkness and gloom,
a day of clouds and thick darkness,^(A)

¹⁶     a day of trumpet blast and battle cry
against the fortified cities
    and against the lofty battlements.