Joel 1:15

Joel 1:15 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)Alas for the day! for the day of the Lord is at hand, and as a destruction from the Almighty shall it come.
• New International Version (NIV)Alas for that day! For the day of the Lord is near; it will come like destruction from the Almighty.
• English Standard Version (ESV)Alas for the day! For the day of the Lord is near, and as destruction from the Almighty it comes.
• New King James Version (NKJV)Alas for the day! For the day of the Lord is at hand; It shall come as destruction from the Almighty.

Context of Joel 1:15

13Gird yourselves, and lament, ye priests; howl, ministers of the altar; come, lie all night in sackcloth, ye ministers of my God: for the oblation and the drink-offering are withholden from the house of your God. 14Hallow a fast, proclaim a solemn assembly, gather the elders, [and] all the inhabitants of the land to the house of Jehovah your God, and cry unto Jehovah. Alas for the day! for the day of Jehovah is at hand, and as destruction from the Almighty shall it come. 16Is not the food cut off before our eyes, joy and gladness from the house of our God? 17The seeds are rotten under their clods, the granaries are laid desolate, the barns are broken down; for the corn is withered.

Joel 1:15 word by word

אֲהָ֖הּ לַיּ֑וֹם כִּ֤י קָרוֹב֙ י֣וֹם יְהוָ֔ה וּכְשֹׁ֖ד מִשַׁדַּ֥י יָבֽוֹא׃Read the interlinear

• Alasאֲהָהּ'ăhâhh · alas!H162
• dayיוֹםyôm · dayH3117
• destructionשֹׁדshôd shôd · violenceH7701
• Almightyשַׁדַּיshadday · AlmightyH7706
• comeבּוֹאbô' · to come (in): comeH935

Cross-references for Joel 1:15

• Joel 2:2a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and gross darkness, as the dawn spread upon the mountains; — a great people and a strong; there hath not been ever the like, neither shall be any more after them, to the years of generations and generations.
• Jeremiah 30:7Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob's trouble; but he shall be saved out of it.
• Amos 5:16Therefore thus saith Jehovah, the God of hosts, the Lord: Wailing shall be in all broadways; and they shall say in all the streets, Alas! alas! And they shall call the husbandman to mourning, and such as are skilful of lamentation to wailing.
• Joel 2:1Blow the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy mountain; let all the inhabitants of the land tremble: for the day of Jehovah cometh, for it is at hand;
• Psalms 37:13The Lord laugheth at him; for he seeth that his day is coming.
• Isaiah 13:6Howl, for the day of Jehovah is at hand; it cometh as destruction from the Almighty.
• Ezekiel 7:2And thou, son of man, thus saith the Lord Jehovah unto the land of Israel: An end, the end is come upon the four corners of the land.
• Ezekiel 12:22Son of man, what is that proverb which ye have in the land of Israel, saying, The days shall be prolonged, and every vision faileth?
• Zephaniah 1:14The great day of Jehovah is near, it is near, and hasteth greatly. The voice of the day of Jehovah: the mighty man shall cry there bitterly.
• Luke 19:41And as he drew near, seeing the city, he wept over it,
• James 5:9Complain not one against another, brethren, that ye be not judged. Behold, the judge stands before the door.
• Revelation 6:17because the great day of his wrath is come, and who is able to stand?

Commentaries on Joel 1:15

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 15Alas for the day! - The Syriac repeats this, the Vulgate, Septuagint, and Arabic, thrice: "Alas, alas, alas, for the day!" As a destruction from the Almighty - The destruction that is now coming is no ordinary calamity; it is as a signal judgment immediately inflicted by the Almighty.Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 15Alas for the day! for the Day of the Lord is at hand - The judgment of God, then, which they were to deprecate, was still to come.: “All times and all days are God‘s. Yet they are said to be our days, in which God leaves us to our own freedom, to do as we will,” and which we may use to repent and turn to Him. “Whence Christ saith, O Jerusalem - if thou hadst known in this thy day the things which belong unto thy peace‘ Luke 19:42. That time, on the…Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 14-20Verses 14-20 The sorrow of the people is turned into repentance and humiliation before God. With all the marks of sorrow and shame, sin must be confessed and bewailed. A day is to be appointed for this purpose; a day in which people must be kept from their common employments, that they may more closely attend God's services; and there is to be abstaining from meat and drink. Every one had added to the national guilt, all shared in the national calamity…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 15The locust plague was not just a natural event. It was a sign that the day of the Lord was near. Starting with Amos in the 700s BC (Amos 5:18), prophets spoke of a future time when God would step into human history to judge the wicked and support the righteous. destruction from the Almighty: The Hebrew text emphasizes the similar sounds of the word destruction (shod) and the title the Almighty (shadday).Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1515. day of the Lord--(Joe 2:1, 11); that is, the day of His anger (Is 13:9; Ob 15; Zep 1:7, 15). It will be a foretaste of the coming day of the Lord as Judge of all men, whence it receives the same name. Here the transition begins from the plague of locusts to the worse calamities (Joe 2:1-11) from invading armies about to come on Judea, of which the locusts were the prelude.Read the comment

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In the dictionaries

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Commentaries on Joel 1

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings