⁴³ Audivit rex Babylonis famam eorum, et dissolutæ sunt manus ejus : angustia apprehendit eum, dolor quasi parturientem.

¹ "Behold, I send my messenger, and he will prepare the way before me; and the Lord, whom you seek, will suddenly come to his temple; and the messenger of the covenant, whom you desire, behold, he comes!" says Yahweh of Armies.

² "But who can endure the day of his coming? And who will stand when he appears? For he is like a refiner's fire, and like launderer's soap;