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

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

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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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