Holy Scripture
Isaiah 13:8
A church father on this verse
“The day of the Lord comes suddenly, it says, and in an unexpected way like the pains of childbirth, which forestall all one's efforts to hide them.”
Source: Septuagint
Original
8The 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.
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In context
6Howl ye, for the day of the Lord is near, and destruction from God shall arrive.
7Therefore every hand shall become powerless, and every soul of man shall be dismayed.
— Isaiah 13:8 —
9For behold! the day of the Lord is coming which cannot be escaped, a day of wrath and anger, to make the world desolate, and to destroy sinners out of it.
10For 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.