The Terror of the Day of the Lord

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Howl! for the Day of ADONAI is at hand, destruction coming from Shaddai.

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This is why every arm will hang limp and everyone's courage melt away.

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They will be gripped by panic, seized with pain and agony, writhing like a woman in labor, looking aghast at each other, faces aflame.

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Here comes the Day of ADONAI, full of cruelty, rage and hot fury, to desolate the earth and destroy the sinners in it.

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For the stars, the constellations in the sky, will no longer give their light; the sun will be dark when it rises; and the moon will no longer shine.

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"I will punish the world for its evil and the wicked for their iniquity. I will end the arrogance of the proud and humble the insolence of tyrants.

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I will make humans rarer than gold, scarcer than Ofir's pure gold.

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This is why I will make the heavens tremble, and the earth will be shaken from its place at the wrath of ADONAI-Tzva'ot on the day of his fierce anger.

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Then, like a hunted gazelle, like sheep with no one to gather them, everyone will head back to his own people; everyone will flee to his own land.

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Anyone found will be pierced through; anyone caught will fall by the sword,

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their babies dashed to pieces before their eyes, their houses looted, their wives raped.

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