Isaiah 13
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Isaiah 13:6-14

6Wail, for the day of the Lord is near; as destruction from the Almighty it will come!

7Therefore all hands will be feeble, and every human heart will melt.

8They will be dismayed: pangs and agony will seize them; they will be in anguish like a woman in labor. They will look aghast at one another; their faces will be aflame.

9Behold, the day of the Lord comes, cruel, with wrath and fierce anger, to make the land a desolation and to destroy its sinners from it.

10For the stars of the heavens and their constellations will not give their light; the sun will be dark at its rising, and the moon will not shed its light.

11I will punish the world for its evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; I will put an end to the pomp of the arrogant, and lay low the pompous pride of the ruthless.

12I will make people more rare than fine gold, and mankind than the gold of Ophir.

13Therefore I will make the heavens tremble, and the earth will be shaken out of its place, at the wrath of the Lord of hosts in the day of his fierce anger.

14And like a hunted gazelle, or like sheep with none to gather them, each will turn to his own people, and each will flee to his own land.

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