- Therefore thus says the LORD God of hosts, the Lord, "There is wailing in all the plazas, And in all the streets they say, 'Alas! Alas!' They also call the farmer to mourning And professional mourners to lamentation.
- "And in all the vineyards there is wailing, Because I will pass through the midst of you," says the LORD.
- Alas, you who are longing for the day of the LORD, For what purpose will the day of the LORD be to you? It will be darkness and not light;
- As when a man flees from a lion And a bear meets him, Or goes home, leans his hand against the wall And a snake bites him.
- Will not the day of the LORD be darkness instead of light, Even gloom with no brightness in it?
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- Therefore this is what the Lord, the LORD God Almighty, says: "There will be wailing in all the streets and cries of anguish in every public square. The farmers will be summoned to weep and the mourners to wail.
- There will be wailing in all the vineyards, for I will pass through your midst," says the LORD.
- Woe to you who long for the day of the LORD! Why do you long for the day of the LORD ? That day will be darkness, not light.
- It will be as though a man fled from a lion only to meet a bear, as though he entered his house and rested his hand on the wall only to have a snake bite him.
- Will not the day of the LORD be darkness, not light-- pitch-dark, without a ray of brightness?
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