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18 Anyone who tries to escape from the terror will fall in a pit, and anyone who escapes from the pit will be caught in a trap. Torrents of rain will pour from the sky, and earth's foundations will shake. 19 The earth will crack and shatter and split open. 20 The earth itself will stagger like a drunk, sway like a hut in a storm. The world is weighed down by its sins; it will collapse and never rise again.

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18 Whoever flees(A) at the sound of terror
    will fall into a pit;(B)
whoever climbs out of the pit
    will be caught in a snare.(C)

The floodgates of the heavens(D) are opened,
    the foundations of the earth shake.(E)
19 The earth is broken up,(F)
    the earth is split asunder,(G)
    the earth is violently shaken.
20 The earth reels like a drunkard,(H)
    it sways like a hut(I) in the wind;
so heavy upon it is the guilt of its rebellion(J)
    that it falls(K)—never to rise again.(L)

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