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The Lord’s Day of Judging

18 How terrible it will be for you who want
    the Lord’s day of judging to come.
Why do you want that day to come?
    It will bring darkness for you, not light.
19 It will be like someone who runs from a lion
    and meets a bear,
or like someone who goes into his house
    and puts his hand on the wall,
    and then is bitten by a snake.
20 So the Lord’s day of judging will bring darkness, not light;
    it will be very dark, not light at all.

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The Day of the Lord

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

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