Joel 2:11

And Hashem shall utter His voice before His army; 1 His machaneh (camp) is very great; 1 for the executor of His devar (word, command) is strong; 1 for the Yom Hashem is gadol and very terrible; 1 and who can endure it? 1

Orthodox Jewish Bible

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 eretz shall quake before them; 1 the Shomayim shall tremble; 1 the shemesh and the yarei'ach shall be dark, 1 and the kokhavim shall withdraw their shining; 1

12Therefore also now, saith Hashem, 1 turn ye back to Me with all your lev, 1 and with tzom, and with weeping, and with mourning; 1

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Cross References

2 Samuel 22:14Hashem thundered from Shomayim, 1 and Elyon uttered His voice. 1

Psalms 46:6Elohim is in the midst of it; + 46:6 i.e., the Ir Elohim it shall not be moved; 1 Elohim shall help it at early boker. 1

Isaiah 7:18And it shall come to pass in that yom, that Hashem shall whistle for the fly that is in the uttermost part of the Nile of Mitzrayim, and for the bee that is in Eretz Ashur.

Isaiah 42:13Hashem shall go forth like a Gibbor, 1 He shall arouse kina (zeal) like an ish milchamah; 1 He shall shout, indeed, raise a war cry; 1 He shall prevail against His oyevim. 1

Jeremiah 30:7Alas! For gadol hayom, 1 so that none is like it; 1 it is even the Et (Time) of Tzarah l'Ya'akov (Jacobʼs Trouble), 1 but he shall be saved out of it.

Ezekiel 22:14Can thine lev stand firm, or can thine hands be strong, in the days that I shall deal with thee? I Hashem have spoken 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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