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6 Wail, for the day of the LORD is near; it will come like destruction from Shaddai!
7 Therefore all hands will grow slack, and every human heart will melt,
8 and they will be dismayed. Pangs and labor pains will seize them; they will tremble like a woman giving birth. They will stare at one another, their faces flushing.
9 Look, the day of the LORD comes, cruel, with wrath and fierce anger; to make the land a desolation, and to destroy its sinners out of it.
10 "The stars of heaven and their constellations will not shine forth their light. The sun will be dark when it rises and the moon will not shine its light.
11 I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity. I will cause the arrogance of the proud to cease, and will humble the arrogance of the terrible.
12 I will make a man more precious than fine gold, even man than the gold of Ophir.
13 "Therefore I will make the heavens tremble. The earth will shake from its place at the fury of the LORD Almighty in the day of his burning anger.
14 It will happen that like a hunted gazelle, and like sheep that no one gathers, they will each turn to their own people, and will each flee to their own land.
15 "All who are found will be pierced through. All who are captured will fall by the sword.
16 Their infants also will be dashed in pieces before their eyes. Their houses will be rifled and their wives ravished.
17 Behold, I will stir up against them the Medes; who will not regard silver, and who will not delight in gold.
18 "And their bows will mow down the young men. They will not even have compassion on the fruit of the womb. Nor will they have compassion on children.
19 Babylon, the beauty (honor) (glory) of kingdoms, the majesty of Chaldean pride, will be overthrew by God like Sodom and Gomorrah.
20 »It will never be inhabited or lived in from generation to generation! Nor will the Arab pitch his tent there. Nor will shepherds take their flocks there.
21 But wild animals of the desert will lie there, and their houses will be full of jackals. Ostriches will dwell there, and wild goats will frolic there.
22 Wolves will cry in their castles, and jackals in the pleasant palaces. Her time is near to come, and her days will not be prolonged.