⁷ Therefore, every hand will hang limp
    and every man’s courage will fade;
⁸ they will all be panic-stricken,
    overcome with pangs and agony
    and writhing like a woman in labor.
They will look aghast at each other,
    with their faces aflame with fear.
⁹ Behold, the day of the Lord is coming,
    a cruel day of wrath and burning anger,
to reduce the land to a desert waste
    and to destroy all the sinners within it.