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7-8 This is why all hands will shake and tremble;
    every heart will flutter and melt.
People will be paralyzed with fear, weakened with terror.
    Taut and shaking, they’ll be overcome like a woman in labor.
They’ll look to each other dumbfounded,
    their faces flushed with fear.

See here! The fury of God has been building and is too great to stop;
    the day of the Eternal is nearly here.
It will come down in all its cruelty, fury, and fiery anger,
    to make the land a wasteland, to wipe out all who failed God.

So complete, so persistent are the nation’s sins that even the lights of heaven go out.

10 For the stars that define the constellations in the heavens
    will fail to give their light.
The sun will go dark even when it’s high in the sky;
    the moon will not shine.[a]

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