New King James Version
Joel 1:15
15Alas for the day! For the day of the Lord is at hand; It shall come as destruction from the Almighty.
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 Living Translation (NLT)The day of the Lord is near, the day when destruction comes from the Almighty. How terrible that day will be!
Context of Joel 1:15
13Gird yourselves and lament, you priests; Wail, you who minister before the altar; Come, lie all night in sackcloth, You who minister to my God; For the grain offering and the drink offering Are withheld from the house of your God. 14Consecrate a fast, Call a sacred assembly; Gather the elders And all the inhabitants of the land Into the house of the Lord your God, And cry out to the Lord. Alas for the day! For the day of the Lord is at hand; It shall come as destruction from the Almighty. 16Is not the food cut off before our eyes, Joy and gladness from the house of our God? 17The seed shrivels under the clods, Storehouses are in shambles; Barns are broken down, For the grain has withered.
Read all of Joel 1Joel 1:15 word by word
אֲהָ֖הּ לַיּ֑וֹם כִּ֤י קָרוֹב֙ י֣וֹם יְהוָ֔ה וּכְשֹׁ֖ד מִשַׁדַּ֥י יָבֽוֹא׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Joel 1:15
- Joel 2:2A day of darkness and gloominess, A day of clouds and thick darkness, Like the morning clouds spread over the mountains. A people come, great and strong, The like of whom has never been; Nor will there ever be any such after them, Even for many successive generations.
- Jeremiah 30:7Alas! For that day is great, So that none is like it; And it is the time of Jacob’s trouble, But he shall be saved out of it.
- Amos 5:16Therefore the Lord God of hosts, the Lord, says this: “There shall be wailing in all streets, And they shall say in all the highways, ‘Alas! Alas!’ They shall call the farmer to mourning, And skillful lamenters 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 the Lord is coming, For it is at hand:
- Psalms 37:13The Lord laughs at him, For He sees that his day is coming.
- Isaiah 13:6Wail, for the day of the Lord is at hand! It will come as destruction from the Almighty.
- Ezekiel 7:2“And you, son of man, thus says the Lord God to the land of Israel: ‘An end! The end has come upon the four corners of the land.
- Ezekiel 12:22“Son of man, what is this proverb that you people have about the land of Israel, which says, ‘The days are prolonged, and every vision fails’?
- Zephaniah 1:14The great day of the Lord is near; It is near and hastens quickly. The noise of the day of the Lord is bitter; There the mighty men shall cry out.
- Luke 19:41Now as He drew near, He saw the city and wept over it,
- James 5:9Do not grumble against one another, brethren, lest you be condemned. Behold, the Judge is standing at the door!
- Revelation 6:17For the great day of His wrath has 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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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
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