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Joel 1:15 KJV
Joel · chapter 1 · verse 15
Alas for the day! for the day of the LORD is at hand, and as a destruction from the Almighty shall it come.Joel 1:15 · King James Version
Joel 1:15 in context
13Gird yourselves, and lament, ye priests: howl, ye ministers of the altar: come, lie all night in sackcloth, ye ministers of my God: for the meat offering and the drink offering is withholden from the house of your God.
14Sanctify ye a fast, call a solemn assembly, gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the land into the house of the LORD your God, and cry unto the LORD.
15Alas for the day! for the day of the LORD is at hand, and as a destruction from the Almighty shall it come.
16Is not the meat cut off before our eyes, yea, joy and gladness from the house of our God?
17The seed is rotten under their clods, the garners are laid desolate, the barns are broken down; for the corn is withered.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- destructionshôdviolence, ravageH7701 →
- AlmightyShaddaythe AlmightyH7706 →
- AlasʼăhâhhOh!H162 →
- LORDYᵉhôvâhJehovah, Jewish national name of GodH3068 →
- handqârôwbnearH7138 →
- dayyôwma day , whether literal , or figurativeH3117 →
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We have observed abundance of tears shed for the destruction of the fruits of the earth by the locusts; now here we have those tears turned into the right channel, that of repentance and humiliation before God.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 14-20