⁴The noise of a multitude in the mountains, as it were of many people, the noise of the sound of kings, of nations gathered together: the Lord of hosts hath given charge to the troops of war.

⁵To them that come from a country afar off, from the end of heaven: the Lord and the instruments of his wrath, to destroy the whole land.

⁶Howl ye, for the day of the Lord is near: it shall come as a destruction from the Lord.

⁷Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every heart of man shall melt,

⁸And shall be broken. Gripings and pains, shall take hold of them, they shall be in pain as a woman in labour. Every one shall be amazed at his neighbour, their countenances shall be as faces burnt.

⁹Behold, the day of the Lord shall come, a cruel day, and full of indignation, and of wrath, and fury, to lay the land desolate, and to destroy the sinners thereof out of it.

¹⁰For the stars of heaven, and their brightness shall not display their light: the sun shall be darkened in his rising, and the moon shall not shine with her light.

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