Joel 1:15

15 Alas for that day! For the day of the LORD is near; it will come like destruction from the Almighty.[a]

Joel 1:15 in Other Translations

KJV
15 Alas for the day! for the day of the LORD is at hand, and as a destruction from the Almighty shall it come.
ESV
15 Alas for the day! For the day of the LORD is near, and as destruction from the Almighty it comes.
NLT
15 The day of the LORD is near, the day when destruction comes from the Almighty. How terrible that day will be!
MSG
15 What a day! Doomsday! God's Judgment Day has come. The Strong God has arrived. This is serious business!
CSB
15 Woe because of that day! For the Day of the Lord is near and will come as devastation from the Almighty.

Joel 1:15 In-Context

13 Put on sackcloth, you priests, and mourn; wail, you who minister before the altar. Come, spend the night in sackcloth, you who minister before my God; for the grain offerings and drink offerings are withheld from the house of your God.
14 Declare a holy fast; call a sacred assembly. Summon the elders and all who live in the land to the house of the LORD your God, and cry out to the LORD.
15 Alas for that day! For the day of the LORD is near; it will come like destruction from the Almighty.
16 Has not the food been cut off before our very eyes— joy and gladness from the house of our God?
17 The seeds are shriveled beneath the clods.The storehouses are in ruins, the granaries have been broken down, for the grain has dried up.

Cross References 3

  • 1. S Isaiah 2:12; Jeremiah 30:7; S Jeremiah 46:10; S Ezekiel 30:3; Malachi 4:5
  • 2. Isaiah 13:6,9; Joel 2:1,11,31; Joel 3:14; Amos 5:18; Zephaniah 1:14; Zechariah 14:1
  • 3. S Genesis 17:1

Footnotes 1

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