Sofonias 1

14 The Yom Hashem HaGadol is near,

near and hastening quickly;

the sound of the Yom Hashem is mar (bitter);

there the gibbor (mighty man, warrior) cries aloud.

15 That Yom is a Yom Evrah (day of wrath),

a Yom Tzarah and Metzukah (a day of trouble and distress, pressure),

a Yom of Sho’ah (catastrophe) and Meshoah (desolation),

a Yom of Choshech and Afelah (gloom),

a Yom of Anan and Arafel (thick darkness),

16 A Yom of the Shofar and Teruah (battle cry)

against the fortified cities,

and against the high battlements.

17 And I will bring distress upon adam,

that they shall walk like ivrim,

because they have sinned against Hashem;

and their dahm shall be poured out like dust,

and their bowels like dung.

18 Neither their kesef nor their zahav

shall be able to save them in the Yom Evrat Hashem

(Day of Hashem ʼs Wrath);

but kol ha’aretz (the whole earth) shall be devoured

by the eish of Hashemʼs kina (jealousy, zeal, passion);

for He shall make a complete end, a terrible end,

of kol yoshvei ha’aretz (all them that dwell on the earth).