Joel 1:15
Alas for the day! for the day of Jehovah is at hand, and as destruction from the Almighty shall it come.
American Standard Version
In The King James Version
In Context
16Is not the food cut off before our eyes, [yea], joy and gladness from the house of our God?
Cross References
Isaiah 13:6Wail ye; for the day of Jehovah is at hand; as destruction from the Almighty shall it come.
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 7:7Thy doom is come unto thee, O inhabitant of the land: the time is come, the day is near, [a day of] tumult, and not [of] joyful shouting, upon the mountains.
Ezekiel 7:12The time is come, the day draweth near: let not the buyer rejoice, nor the seller mourn; for wrath is upon all the multitude thereof.
Joel 2:1Blow 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 Jehovah cometh, for it is nigh at hand;
Joel 2:31The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and terrible day of Jehovah cometh.
Matthew Henry on Joel 1:15-20
Threatenings of Judgment; A Proclamation for a Fast. ( b. c. 720.) 14 Sanctify 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 , 15 Alas for the day! for the day of the Lord is at hand, and as a destruction from the Almighty shall it come. 16 Is not the meat cut off before our eyes, yea, joy and gladness from the house of our God? 17 The seed is rotten under their clods, the garners are laid desolate, the barns are… Read the whole commentary →