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The noise of a multitude in the mountains, like as of a great people; a tumultuous noise of the kingdoms of nations gathered together: the Lord of hosts mustereth the host of the battle (13:4) They come from a far country, from the end of heaven, [even] the Lord, and the weapons of his indignation, to destroy the whole land (13:5) Howl ye; for the day of the Lord [is] at hand; it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty. (13:6) com1 Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every man's heart shall melt: (13:7) And they shall be afraid: pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them; they shall be in pain as a woman that travaileth: they shall be amazed one at another; their faces [shall be as] flames (13:8) Behold, the day of the Lord cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it (13:9) For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light: the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine (13:10) And I will punish the world for [their] evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible (13:11) I will make a man more precious than fine gold; even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir (13:12) Therefore I will shake the heavens, and the earth shall remove out of her place, in the wrath of the Lord of hosts, and in the day of his fierce anger (13:13) And it shall be as the chased roe, and as a sheep that no man taketh up: they shall every man turn to his own people, and flee every one into his own land (13:14) Every one that is found shall be thrust through; and every one that is joined [unto them] shall fall by the sword (13:15) Their children also shall be dashed to pieces before their eyes; their houses shall be spoiled, and their wives ravished (13:16) Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, which shall not regard silver; and [as for] gold, they shall not delight in it (13:17) [Their] bows also shall dash the young men to pieces; and they shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb; their eye shall not spare children (13:18) And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldees' excellency, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah (13:19) It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation: neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there; neither shall the shepherds make their fold there (13:20) But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and owls shall dwell there, and satyrs shall dance there (13:21) And the wild beasts of the islands shall cry in their desolate houses, and dragons in [their] pleasant palaces: and her time [is] near to come, and her days shall not be prolonged
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