Alas, for this [a]day is great: none hath been like it: it is even the time of Jacob’s trouble, yet shall he be delivered from it.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 30:7 Meaning, that the time of their captivity should be grievous.

How awful that day(A) will be!
    No other will be like it.
It will be a time of trouble(B) for Jacob,
    but he will be saved(C) out of it.

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18 Woe unto you, that [a]desire the day of the Lord: what have you to do with it? the day of the Lord is darkness and not light,

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Footnotes

  1. Amos 5:18 Thus he speaketh, because the wicked and hypocrites said they were content to abide God’s judgments, whereas the godly tremble and fear, Jer. 30:7; Joel 2:2, 11; Zeph. 1:15.

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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15 (A)That day is a day of wrath, a day of trouble and heaviness, a day of destruction and desolation, a day of obscurity and darkness, a day of clouds and blackness,

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15 That day will be a day of wrath—
    a day of distress and anguish,
        a day of trouble and ruin,
    a day of darkness(A) and gloom,
        a day of clouds and blackness(B)

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