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

13You priests, wear clothes that are not comfortable. That will show that you are sad. You cry, you who serve the Lord in his temple. Come, you who serve in front of my God. Sleep in the clothes that are not comfortable. Cry for the gifts of food and drink. Cry because they do not come to the house of your God any longer. 14Tell everyone that they must not eat any food. Tell the people that they must all come to hear the Lord. Speak to the older leaders, and all the people who live in this country. Tell them that they must all come. They must come to the house of the Lord your God and they must shout out to the Lord. Be afraid because of that day. Be afraid because the day of the Lord is near. It will be as if the great God would destroy everything. 16No food has come. We saw this with our own eyes. The house of our God cannot make us happy. 17The seeds under the earth are dry. The places where they were stored have fallen down. Someone has broken them up because the seed does not grow.

Joel 1:15 word by word

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

Words taken from the KJV.

• Alasאֲהָהּ'ăhâhh · alas!H162
• for the dayיוֹםyôm · dayH3117
• of the Lordיְהֹוָהyehôvâh · LORDH3068
• at handקָרֹבqârôb qârôb · nearH7138
• and as a destructionשֹׁדshôd shôd · violenceH7701
• from the Almightyשַׁדַּיshadday · AlmightyH7706
• shall it comeבּוֹאbô' · to come (in): comeH935

Cross-references for Joel 1:15

• Joel 2:2That day will be sad and dark. There will be dark clouds. A great big army is coming. It comes across the sky like light in the morning. A great army like this has never come before. And it will never come again in future years.
• Jeremiah 30:7It will be a time of terrible trouble, worse than anything that has happened before. It will be a time of great trouble for Jacob's descendants. But I will rescue them from their trouble.’
• Amos 5:16The Lord, the Lord God Almighty says, ‘All the people will be sad. They will weep and cry loudly in all the streets. They will tell the farmers to weep with them. They will tell the singers to sing sad songs for them.
• Joel 2:1Blow the trumpet in Zion. Tell the people on the Lord's hill that they must watch for trouble. All the people who live in this country will be afraid. They will be afraid because the day of the Lord is coming. It is very near.
• Psalms 37:13But my Lord laughs at those wicked people, because he knows that their day of punishment will come.
• Isaiah 13:6Weep, because the day of the Lord is near. That is the time when God Almighty will destroy his enemies.
• Ezekiel 7:2‘Son of man, this is what I, the Almighty Lord, say to the land of Israel: The end is now here! I will soon destroy the whole land.
• Ezekiel 12:22‘Son of man, you have this proverb in the land of Israel: “A long time passes and visions never truly happen.”
• Zephaniah 1:14The time for the great day of the Lord is coming very soon. It will happen quickly. Strong men will weep when they hear the noise of it.
• Luke 19:41When Jesus got near to the city, he looked at it. He cried because he felt very sorry for the people in it.
• James 5:9My Christian friends, do not complain against each other. If you do, God will punish you. So be careful! He is the Judge and he is ready now to judge people.
• Revelation 6:17Their great day has come. They will punish us because they are so angry. Nobody will be able to escape.’

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

• Ah; Aha
• Joel (2)

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