Joel 2:11

And the Lord is thundering before his forces; for very great is his army; for he is strong who gives effect to his word: for the day of the Lord is great and greatly to be feared, and who has strength against it?

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In The King James Version

And the LORD shall utter his voice before his army: for his camp is very great: for he is strong that executeth his word: for the day of the LORD is great and very terrible; and who can abide it?

In Context

10The earth is troubled before them and the heavens are shaking: the sun and the moon have become dark, and the stars keep back their shining:

12But even now, says the Lord, come back to me with all your heart, keeping from food, with weeping and with sorrow:

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Cross References

2 Samuel 22:14The Lord made thunder in the heavens, and the voice of the Highest was sounding out.

Psalms 46:6\46:5\God has taken his place in her; she will not be moved: he will come to her help at the dawn of morning.

Isaiah 7:18And it will be in that day that the Lord will make a piping sound for the fly which is in the end of the rivers of Egypt, and for the bee which is in the land of Assyria.

Isaiah 42:13The Lord will go out as a man of war, he will be moved to wrath like a fighting-man: his voice will be strong, he will give a loud cry; he will go against his attackers like a man of war.

Jeremiah 30:7Ha! for that day is so great that there is no day like it: it is the time of Jacob's trouble: but he will get salvation from it.

Ezekiel 22:14Will your heart be high or your hands strong in the days when I take you in hand? I the Lord have said it and will do it.

Matthew Henry on Joel 2:2-12

Threatenings of Judgment. ( b. c. 720.) 1 Blow ye 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 cometh, for it is nigh at hand; 2 A day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds and of thick darkness, as the morning spread upon the mountains: a great people and a strong; there hath not been ever the like, neither shall be any more after it, even to the years of many generations. 3 A fire devoureth before them; and behind them… Read the whole commentary →

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