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16 This is what Adonay Yahweh Elohe Tsebaoth, says:

There will be loud crying in every city square,
    and people will say in every street, “Oh, no!”
    They will call on farmers to mourn
    and on professional mourners to cry loudly.
17 There will be loud crying in every vineyard,
    because I will pass through your land with death.

Yahweh has said this.

The Terrifying Day of the Lord

18 How horrible it will be for those who long for the day of Yahweh!
    Why do you long for that day?
    The day of Yahweh is one of darkness and not light.

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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)

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