20 Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doors about thee: hide thyself as it were for a little moment, until the indignation be overpast.

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20 Go, my people, enter your rooms
    and shut the doors(A) behind you;
hide(B) yourselves for a little while
    until his wrath(C) has passed by.(D)

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21 For, behold, the Lord cometh out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain.

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21 See, the Lord is coming(A) out of his dwelling(B)
    to punish(C) the people of the earth for their sins.
The earth will disclose the blood(D) shed on it;
    the earth will conceal its slain no longer.

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Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob's trouble, but he shall be saved out of it.

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How awful that day(A) will be!
    No other will be like it.
It will be a time of trouble(B) for Jacob,
    but he will be saved(C) out of it.

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21 For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.

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21 For then there will be great distress, unequaled from the beginning of the world until now—and never to be equaled again.(A)

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