16 Therefore this is what the Lord, the Lord God Almighty, says:

“There will be wailing(A) in all the streets(B)
    and cries of anguish in every public square.
The farmers(C) will be summoned to weep
    and the mourners to wail.
17 There will be wailing(D) in all the vineyards,
    for I will pass through(E) your midst,”
says the Lord.(F)

The Day of the Lord

18 Woe to you who long
    for the day of the Lord!(G)
Why do you long for the day of the Lord?(H)
    That day will be darkness,(I) not light.(J)
19 It will be as though a man fled from a lion
    only to meet a bear,(K)
as though he entered his house
    and rested his hand on the wall
    only to have a snake bite him.(L)
20 Will not the day of the Lord be darkness,(M) not light—
    pitch-dark, without a ray of brightness?(N)

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