And they shall be afraid: anguish and sorrow shall take them, and they shall have pain, as a woman that travaileth: everyone shall be amazed at his neighbor, and their faces shall be like [a]flames of fire.

Behold, the day of the Lord cometh, cruel, with wrath and fierce anger to lay the land waste: and he shall destroy the sinners out of it.

10 For the [b]stars of heaven and the planets 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.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 13:8 The Babylonians’ anger and grief shall be so much, that their faces shall burn as fire.
  2. Isaiah 13:10 They that are overcome shall think that all the powers of heaven and earth are against them, Ezek. 32:7; Joel 3:15; Matt. 24:29.

Terror(A) will seize them,
    pain and anguish will grip(B) them;
    they will writhe like a woman in labor.(C)
They will look aghast at each other,
    their faces aflame.(D)

See, the day(E) of the Lord is coming
    —a cruel(F) day, with wrath(G) and fierce anger(H)
to make the land desolate
    and destroy the sinners within it.
10 The stars of heaven and their constellations
    will not show their light.(I)
The rising sun(J) will be darkened(K)
    and the moon will not give its light.(L)

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