Therefore shall all hands be weakened, and all men’s hearts shall melt.

And they shall be afraid: anguish and sorrow shall take them, and they shall have pain, as a woman that travaileth: everyone shall be amazed at his neighbor, and their faces shall be like [a]flames of fire.

Behold, the day of the Lord cometh, cruel, with wrath and fierce anger to lay the land waste: and he shall destroy the sinners out of it.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 13:8 The Babylonians’ anger and grief shall be so much, that their faces shall burn as fire.

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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