The Terror of the Day of the Lord

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Wail; for the day of the LORD is at hand! It will come as destruction from the Almighty.

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Therefore all hands will be feeble, and everyone’s heart will melt.

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They will be dismayed. Pangs and sorrows will seize them. They will be in pain like a woman in labor. They will look in amazement one at another. Their faces will be faces of flame.

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Behold, the day of the LORD comes, cruel, with wrath and fierce anger; to make the land a desolation, and to destroy its sinners out of it.

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For the stars of the sky and its constellations will not give their light. The sun will be darkened in its going out, and the moon will not cause its light to shine.

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I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity. I will cause the arrogance of the proud to cease, and will humble the haughtiness of the terrible.

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I will make people more rare than fine gold, even a person than the pure gold of Ophir.

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Therefore I will make the heavens tremble, and the earth will be shaken out of its place in the wrath of the LORD of Hosts, and in the day of his fierce anger.

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It will happen that like a hunted gazelle, and like sheep that no one gathers, they will each turn to their own people, and will each flee to their own land.

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Everyone who is found will be thrust through. Everyone who is captured will fall by the sword.

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Their infants also will be dashed in pieces before their eyes. Their houses will be ransacked, and their wives raped.

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