“And they shall be afraid: pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them; they shall be in pain as a woman that travaileth: they shall be amazed one at another; their faces shall be as flames.”
And every one shall be amazed at his neighbour; they shall not spare one another—the breakdown of all social bonds and human compassion in the face of overwhelming judgment, with even family members and neighbors abandoning each other. The refusal to spare suggests the complete inversion of normal ethical restraints and the triumph of self-interest and fear. This verse depicts the moral dissolution that accompanies divine judgment.
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