1Blow a shofar in Zion and sound an alarm on my holy mountain. Let all the inhabitants of the earth tremble, for the day of the LORD is coming; it is near.2A day of darkness and gloom, a day of cloud and thick darkness—like dawn spread out over the mountains: a numerous and mighty people. Like it there has not been from the world, and after it he will not add until years of generation and generation.3Before him fire has devoured, and behind him a flame blazes; the land is like the Garden of Eden before him, and behind him it is a wilderness desolation, and also there was no escape for him.4His appearance is like the appearance of the mirrors of horses, and like judicial decisions so they will run.5Like the sound of chariots on the heads of the mountains they will dance, like the sound of the flame of fire devouring straw, like a mighty people arrayed for warfare.6Before him peoples writhe in pain, all faces gather pallor.7Like mighty ones they will run; like men of war they will go up a wall. And they will walk a man in his ways, and they will not stray from their paths.8And they will not thrust a man his brother aside; they will walk a man in his highway. And through the missile they will fall—they will not be cut off.9They run to and fro in the city; they run on the wall; they go up into houses; they come through the windows like a thief.10Before him the earth trembles, the heavens quake, the sun and moon grow dark, and the stars gather in their brightness.11And the LORD utters his voice before his army, for his camp is very great; he who does his word is mighty, for the day of the LORD is great and very fearsome. Who can endure it?