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Joel 1:15

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

Alas {H162} for the day {H3117}! for the day {H3117} of the LORD {H3068} is at hand {H7138}, and as a destruction {H7701} from the Almighty {H7706} shall it come {H935}.

"Oh no! The Day! The Day of ADONAI is upon us! As destruction from Shaddai it is coming!

Alas for the day! For the Day of the LORD is near, and it will come as destruction from the Almighty.

Alas for the day! for the day of Jehovah is at hand, and as destruction from the Almighty shall it come.

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Cross-References

  • Isaiah 13:6 (7 votes)

    ¶ Howl ye; for the day of the LORD [is] at hand; it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty.

  • Isaiah 13:9 (7 votes)

    Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it.

  • Zephaniah 1:14 (6 votes)

    ¶ The great day of the LORD [is] near, [it is] near, and hasteth greatly, [even] the voice of the day of the LORD: the mighty man shall cry there bitterly.

  • Zephaniah 1:18 (6 votes)

    Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of the LORD'S wrath; but the whole land shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy: for he shall make even a speedy riddance of all them that dwell in the land.

  • Jeremiah 30:7 (5 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.

  • Ezekiel 7:2 (5 votes)

    Also, thou son of man, thus saith the Lord GOD unto the land of Israel; An end, the end is come upon the four corners of the land.

  • Ezekiel 7:12 (5 votes)

    The time is come, the day draweth near: let not the buyer rejoice, nor the seller mourn: for wrath [is] upon all the multitude thereof.