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Look! A day of darkness and gloom, misery and suffering, distress and chaos on the earth.
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The entire righteous nation was thrown into a state of panic, dreading the evil that was coming against them. They expected to die.
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So they cried out to God. Their cry was small at first, like a little spring, but soon it became loud as a mighty river, an abundance of water.
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Then the sun with its light shone, the lowly were raised up high, and it devoured those who were held in honor.
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Then Mordecai, who had this dream and saw what God had planned to do, woke up and kept it secret. He wished to examine it in every detail before nightfall.