Old Testament Lesson

Isa. 13:6-13 (NRSV)

6 Wail, for the day of the LORD is near; it will come like destruction from the Almighty! 7Therefore all hands will
be feeble, and every human heart will melt, 8and they will be dismayed. Pangs and agony will seize them; they
will be in anguish like a woman in labor. They will look aghast at one another; their faces will be aflame. 9See,
the day of the LORD comes, cruel, with wrath and fierce anger, to make the earth a desolation, and to destroy its
sinners from it. 10For the stars of the heavens and their constellations will not give their light; the sun will be
dark at its rising, and the moon will not shed its light. 11I will punish the world for its evil, and the wicked for
their iniquity; I will put an end to the pride of the arrogant, and lay low the insolence of tyrants. 12I will make
mortals more rare than fine gold, and humans than the gold of Ophir. 13Therefore I will make the heavens
tremble, and the earth will be shaken out of its place, at the wrath of the LORD of hosts in the day of his fierce
anger.

The Word of the Lord.

Thanks be to God.