Joel 1:15
Alas for the day! For the day of the LORD is at hand, and it will come as destruction from the Almighty.
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In Context
16Isn’t the food cut off before our eyes, joy and gladness from the house of our God?
Cross References
Isaiah 13:6Wail, for the LORD’s day is at hand! It will come as destruction from the Almighty.
Ezekiel 7:2“You, son of man, the Lord GOD says to the land of Israel, ‘An end! The end has come on the four corners of the land.
Ezekiel 7:7Your doom has come to you, inhabitant of the land! The time has come! The day is near, a day of tumult, and not of joyful shouting, on the mountains.
Ezekiel 7:12The time has come! The day draws near. Don’t let the buyer rejoice, nor the seller mourn; for wrath is on all its multitude.
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 comes, for it is close at hand:
Joel 2:31The sun will be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and terrible day of the LORD comes.
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 →