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Amos 5:18

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Woe unto you that desire the day of the LORD! to what end [is] it for you? the day of the LORD [is] darkness, and not light.

Woe {H1945} unto you that desire {H183} the day {H3117} of the LORD {H3068}! to what end {H4100} is it for you? the day {H3117} of the LORD {H3068} is darkness {H2822}, and not light {H216}.

Woe to you who want the Day of ADONAI! Why do you want it, this Day of ADONAI? It is darkness, not light;

Woe to you who long for the Day of the LORD! What will the Day of the LORD be for you? It will be darkness and not light.

Woe unto you that desire the day of Jehovah! Wherefore would ye have the day of Jehovah? It is darkness, and not light.

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Cross-References

  • Joel 1:15 (10 votes)

    Alas for the day! for the day of the LORD [is] at hand, and as a destruction from the Almighty shall it come.

  • Joel 2:1 (9 votes)

    ¶ Blow ye the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy mountain: let all the inhabitants of the land tremble: for the day of the LORD cometh, for [it is] nigh at hand;

  • Joel 2:2 (9 votes)

    A day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds and of thick darkness, as the morning spread upon the mountains: a great people and a strong; there hath not been ever the like, neither shall be any more after it, [even] to the years of many generations.

  • Joel 2:31 (8 votes)

    The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the LORD come.

  • Jeremiah 30:7 (7 votes)

    Alas! for that day [is] great, so that none [is] like it: it [is] even the time of Jacob's trouble; but he shall be saved out of it.

  • Malachi 4:1 (6 votes)

    ¶ For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.

  • Isaiah 9:19 (5 votes)

    Through the wrath of the LORD of hosts is the land darkened, and the people shall be as the fuel of the fire: no man shall spare his brother.