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Therefore shall all hands be feeble, and every heart of man shall melt,

and they shall be terrified: pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them, they shall writhe as a woman that travaileth; they shall be amazed one at another, their faces shall be as flames.

Behold, the day of Jehovah cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the earth desolate; and he will destroy the sinners thereof out of it.

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Because of this, all hands will go limp,(A)
    every heart will melt with fear.(B)
Terror(C) will seize them,
    pain and anguish will grip(D) them;
    they will writhe like a woman in labor.(E)
They will look aghast at each other,
    their faces aflame.(F)

See, the day(G) of the Lord is coming
    —a cruel(H) day, with wrath(I) and fierce anger(J)
to make the land desolate
    and destroy the sinners within it.

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