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15 Woe to us on that day!
    For the day of the Lord[a] is near,
    coming as destruction from the Almighty.
16 Has not the food been cut off
    before our very eyes?
Have not joy and gladness disappeared
    from the house of our God?
17 The seed has shriveled under the clods;
    the storehouses are empty,
and the granaries are deserted
    because the grain has dried up.

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Footnotes

  1. Joel 1:15 The day of the Lord is that of a judgment: which one often imagines under the form of a general catastrophe preceding the reestablishment of the reign of God. Almighty: i.e., an ancient biblical name for God (El-shaddai) used here because of its play on words in Hebrew.