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Behold, the day of the Lord comes, Cruel, with both wrath and fierce anger, To lay the land desolate; And He will destroy its sinners from it.
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For the stars of heaven and their constellations Will not give their light; The sun will be darkened in its going forth, And the moon will not cause its light to shine.
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"I will punish the world for its evil, And the wicked for their iniquity; I will halt the arrogance of the proud, And will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.
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I will make a mortal more rare than fine gold, A man more than the golden wedge of Ophir.
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Therefore I will shake the heavens, And the earth will move out of her place, In the wrath of the Lord of hosts And in the day of His fierce anger.
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It shall be as the hunted gazelle, And as a sheep that no man takes up; Every man will turn to his own people, And everyone will flee to his own land.
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Everyone who is found will be thrust through, And everyone who is captured will fall by the sword.
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Their children also will be dashed to pieces before their eyes; Their houses will be plundered And their wives ravished.
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"Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, Who will not regard silver; And as for gold, they will not delight in it.
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Also their bows will dash the young men to pieces, And they will have no pity on the fruit of the womb; Their eye will not spare children.
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And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, The beauty of the Chaldeans' pride, Will be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.