6 Wail, afor the day of the Lordis at hand! bIt will come as destruction from the Almighty.
7 Therefore all hands will be limp, Every man’s heart will melt,
8 And they will be afraid. aPangs1 and sorrows will take hold of them; They will be in pain as a woman in childbirth; They will be amazed at one another; Their faces willbelike flames.
9 Behold, athe day of the Lord comes, Cruel, with both wrath and fierce anger, To lay the land desolate; And He will destroy bits sinners from it.
10 For the stars of heaven and their constellations Will not give their light; The sun will be adarkened in its going forth, And the moon will not cause its light to shine.
11 “I will apunish the world for its evil, And the wicked for their iniquity; bI will halt the arrogance of the proud, And will lay low the haughtiness of the1 terrible.
12 I will make a mortal more rare than fine gold, A man more than the golden wedge of Ophir.
13aTherefore I will shake the heavens, And the earth will move out of her place, In the wrath of the Lord of hosts And in bthe day of His fierce anger.
14 It shall be as the hunted gazelle, And as a sheep that no man1 takes up; aEvery man will turn to his own people, And everyone will flee to his own land.
15 Everyone who is found will be thrust through, And everyone who is captured will fall by the sword.
16 Their children also will be adashed to pieces before their eyes; Their houses will be plundered And their wives bravished.
17 “Behold,a I will stir up the Medes against them, Who will not1 regard silver; And asfor gold, they will not delight in it.
18 Also their bows will dash the young men to pieces, And they will have no pity on the fruit of the womb; Their eye will not spare children.
19aAnd Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, The beauty of the Chaldeans’ pride, Will be as when God overthrew bSodom and Gomorrah.
20aIt will never be inhabited, Nor will it be settled from generation to generation; Nor will the Arabian pitch tents there, Nor will the shepherds make their sheepfolds there.
21aBut wild beasts of the desert will lie there, And their houses will be full of1 owls; Ostriches will dwell there, And wild goats will caper there.
22 The hyenas will howl in their citadels, And jackals in their pleasant palaces. aHer time is near to come, And her days will not be prolonged.”
They shall be amazed one at another - They shall stare with a stupid gaze on one another, indicating a state of great distress, anxiety, and alarm. They shall look to each other for aid, and shall meet in the countenances of others the same expressions of wonder and consternation.
Their faces shall be as flames - Their faces shall glow or burn like fire. When grief and anguish come upon us, the face becomes inflamed. The face in fear is usually pale. But the idea here is not so much that of fear as of anguish; and, perhaps, there is mingled also here the idea of indignation against their invaders.
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