For the day is near,
Indeed, (A)the day of the Lord is near;
It will be a day of (B)clouds,
A time of doom for the nations.

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For the day is near,(A)
    the day of the Lord(B) is near—
a day of clouds,
    a time of doom for the nations.

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15 (A)Woe for the day!
For the (B)day of the Lord is near,
And it will come as (C)destruction from the [a]Almighty.

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Footnotes

  1. Joel 1:15 Heb Shaddai

15 Alas for that(A) day!
    For the day of the Lord(B) is near;
    it will come like destruction from the Almighty.[a](C)

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Footnotes

  1. Joel 1:15 Hebrew Shaddai

The Terrible Visitation

(A)Blow a trumpet in Zion,
And sound an alarm on My holy mountain!
Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble,
For the (B)day of the Lord is coming;
Indeed, it is near,

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An Army of Locusts

Blow the trumpet(A) in Zion;(B)
    sound the alarm on my holy hill.(C)

Let all who live in the land tremble,
    for the day of the Lord(D) is coming.
It is close at hand(E)

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11 The Lord (A)utters His voice before (B)His army;
His camp is indeed very great,
For (C)mighty is one who carries out His word.
The (D)day of the Lord is indeed great and very awesome,
And (E)who can endure it?

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11 The Lord(A) thunders(B)
    at the head of his army;(C)
his forces are beyond number,
    and mighty is the army that obeys his command.
The day of the Lord is great;(D)
    it is dreadful.
    Who can endure it?(E)

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31 The (A)sun will be turned into darkness,
And the moon into blood,
Before the (B)great and awesome day of the Lord comes.

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31 The sun will be turned to darkness(A)
    and the moon to blood
    before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord.(B)

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18 Woe to you who are longing for the (A)day of the Lord,
For what [a]purpose will the day of the Lord be to you?
It will be (B)darkness and not light;

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Footnotes

  1. Amos 5:18 Lit will this be to you, the day

The Day of the Lord

18 Woe to you who long
    for the day of the Lord!(A)
Why do you long for the day of the Lord?(B)
    That day will be darkness,(C) not light.(D)

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20 Will the day of the Lord not be (A)darkness instead of light,
Even gloom with no brightness in it?

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20 Will not the day of the Lord be darkness,(A) not light—
    pitch-dark, without a ray of brightness?(B)

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