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powerless, and every soul of man shall be dismayed.
8.
The
elders shall be troubled, and pangs shall seize them, as of
a woman in travail: and they shall mourn one to another,
and shall be amazed, and shall change their countenance
as a flame.
9.
For behold! the day of the Lord is coming
which cannot be escaped, of wrath and anger, to make the
world desolate, and to destroy sinners out of it.
10.
For the
stars of heaven, and Orion, and all the host of heaven,
shall not give their light; and it shall be dark at sunrise,
and the moon shall not give her light.
11.
And I will
command evils for the whole world, and [will visit] their
sins on the ungodly: and I will destroy the pride of
transgressors, and will bring low the pride of the haughty.
12.
And they that are left shall be more precious than gold
tried by fire; and a man shall be more precious than the
stone that is in Suphir.
13.
For the heaven shall be enraged,
and the earth shall be shaken from her foundation,
because of the fierce anger of the Lord of hosts, in the day
in which his wrath shall come on.
Reader:
The Prokeimenon, Psalm 58, in the 7th Tone: O
God, my helper art Thou, and Thy mercy shall go before
me.
Stichos:
Rescue me from mine enemies, O God, and from
them that rise up against me redeem me.