The Terror of the Day of the Lord

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Wail, for the Day of the LORD is near; it will come as destruction from the Almighty.

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Therefore all hands will fall limp, and every man’s heart will melt.

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Terror, pain, and anguish will seize them; they will writhe like a woman in labor. They will look at one another, their faces flushed with fear.

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Behold, the Day of the LORD is coming— cruel, with fury and burning anger— to make the earth a desolation and to destroy the sinners within it.

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For the stars of heaven and their constellations will not give their light. The rising sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light.

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I will punish the world for its evil and the wicked for their iniquity. I will end the haughtiness of the arrogant and lay low the pride of the ruthless.

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I will make man scarcer than pure gold, and mankind rarer than the gold of Ophir.

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Therefore I will make the heavens tremble, and the earth will be shaken from its place at the wrath of the LORD of Hosts on the day of His burning anger.

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Like a hunted gazelle, like a sheep without a shepherd, each will return to his own people, each will flee to his native land.

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Whoever is caught will be stabbed, and whoever is captured will die by the sword.

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Their infants will be dashed to pieces before their eyes, their houses will be looted, and their wives will be ravished.

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