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Isaiah 2:12-21
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Isaiah 2:12-21
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12 For the Lord of hosts will have his day
against all that is proud and arrogant,
against all that is high, and it will be brought low;
13 Yes, against all the cedars of Lebanon[a]
and against all the oaks of Bashan,
14 Against all the lofty mountains
and all the high hills,
15 Against every lofty tower
and every fortified wall,
16 Against all the ships of Tarshish
and all stately vessels.
17 Then human pride shall be abased,
the arrogance of mortals brought low,
And the Lord alone will be exalted on that day.
18 The idols will vanish completely.
19 People will go into caves in the rocks
and into holes in the earth,
At the terror of the Lord
and the splendor of his majesty,
as he rises to overawe the earth.
20 On that day people shall throw to moles and bats
their idols of silver and their idols of gold
which they made for themselves to worship.
21 And they shall go into caverns in the rocks
and into crevices in the cliffs,
At the terror of the Lord
and the splendor of his majesty,
as he rises to overawe the earth.
Footnotes
- 2:13 Lebanon: Mount Lebanon in Syria, famed for its cedars. Bashan: the fertile uplands east of the Sea of Galilee.
Isaiah 2:12-21
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Isaiah 2:12-21
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12 The Lord Almighty has a day(A) in store
for all the proud(B) and lofty,(C)
for all that is exalted(D)
(and they will be humbled),(E)
13 for all the cedars of Lebanon,(F) tall and lofty,(G)
and all the oaks of Bashan,(H)
14 for all the towering mountains
and all the high hills,(I)
15 for every lofty tower(J)
and every fortified wall,(K)
16 for every trading ship[a](L)
and every stately vessel.
17 The arrogance of man will be brought low(M)
and human pride humbled;(N)
the Lord alone will be exalted in that day,(O)
18 and the idols(P) will totally disappear.(Q)
19 People will flee to caves(R) in the rocks
and to holes in the ground(S)
from the fearful presence(T) of the Lord
and the splendor of his majesty,(U)
when he rises to shake the earth.(V)
20 In that day(W) people will throw away
to the moles and bats(X)
their idols of silver and idols of gold,(Y)
which they made to worship.(Z)
21 They will flee to caverns in the rocks(AA)
and to the overhanging crags
from the fearful presence of the Lord
and the splendor of his majesty,(AB)
when he rises(AC) to shake the earth.(AD)
Footnotes
- Isaiah 2:16 Hebrew every ship of Tarshish
Jeremiah 46:10
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Jeremiah 46:10
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10 Today belongs to the Lord God of hosts,
a day of vengeance, vengeance on his foes!
The sword devours and is sated, drunk with their blood:
for the Lord God of hosts holds a sacrifice
in the land of the north, on the River Euphrates.(A)
Jeremiah 46:10
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Jeremiah 46:10
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10 But that day(A) belongs to the Lord, the Lord Almighty—
a day of vengeance(B), for vengeance on his foes.
The sword will devour(C) till it is satisfied,
till it has quenched its thirst with blood.(D)
For the Lord, the Lord Almighty, will offer sacrifice(E)
in the land of the north by the River Euphrates.(F)
Amos 5:18-20
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Amos 5:18-20
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Second Woe
18 Woe to those who yearn
for the day of the Lord![a]
What will the day of the Lord mean for you?
It will be darkness, not light!(A)
19 As if someone fled from a lion
and a bear met him;
Or as if on entering the house
he rested his hand against the wall,
and a snake bit it.
20 Truly, the day of the Lord will be darkness, not light,
gloom without any brightness!
Footnotes
- 5:18 The day of the Lord: first mentioned in Amos, this refers to a specific time in the future, known to the Lord alone, when God’s enemies would be decisively defeated. The common assumption among Israelites was that the Lord’s foes and Israel’s foes were one and the same. But Amos makes it clear that because the people have become God’s enemies by refusing to heed the prophetic word, they too would experience the divine wrath on that fateful day. However, during the exile this expression comes to mean a time when God would avenge Israel against its oppressors and bring about its restoration (Jer 50:27; Ez 30:3–5).
Amos 5:18-20
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Amos 5:18-20
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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)
19 It will be as though a man fled from a lion
only to meet a bear,(E)
as though he entered his house
and rested his hand on the wall
only to have a snake bite him.(F)
20 Will not the day of the Lord be darkness,(G) not light—
pitch-dark, without a ray of brightness?(H)
Joel 1:15
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Joel 1:15
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15 O! The day![a]
For near is the day of the Lord,
like destruction from the Almighty it is coming!(A)
Footnotes
- 1:15 As in Am 5:18–20, the day of the Lord in Joel’s first speech brings punishment, not victory, for Judah. In his second speech, this event means victory for those faithful to the Lord and death for the nations who are the Lord’s enemies. Almighty: Hebrew shaddai. There is wordplay between shod (“destruction”) and shaddai.
Zephaniah 1:7
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Zephaniah 1:7
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7 Silence in the presence of the Lord God!
for near is the day of the Lord,
Yes, the Lord has prepared a sacrifice,
he has consecrated his guests.[a](A)
Footnotes
- 1:7 He has consecrated his guests: God has consecrated the troops, presumably foreign, who have been invited to share in the spoil on the day of slaughter.
Zephaniah 1:7
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Zephaniah 1:7
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Revelation 6:17
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Revelation 6:17
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17 because the great day of their[a] wrath has come and who can withstand it?”
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- 6:17 Their: this reading is attested in the best manuscripts, but the vast majority read “his” in reference to the wrath of the Lamb in the preceding verse.
Revelation 6:17
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Revelation 6:17
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Footnotes
- Revelation 6:17 Some manuscripts his
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