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Ezekiel 30:3

For the day is near, the day of the Lord is near, a day of cloud; it will be the time of the nations.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Day;   Scofield Reference Index - Day (of Jehovah);   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Clouds;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Ethiopia;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Cloud, Cloud of the Lord;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Repentance;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Clouds;   Day of the Lord;   Poetry;   Prophecy, Prophets;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Time (2);   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Egypt;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Cloud;   Day of the Lord (Yahweh);   Joel (2);   Near;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Day of the Lord;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
For a day is near;a day belonging to the Lord is near.It will be a day of clouds,a time of doom for the nations.
Hebrew Names Version
For the day is near, even the day of the LORD is near; it shall be a day of clouds, a time of the nations.
King James Version
For the day is near, even the day of the Lord is near, a cloudy day; it shall be the time of the heathen.
English Standard Version
For the day is near, the day of the Lord is near; it will be a day of clouds, a time of doom for the nations.
New American Standard Bible
"For the day is near, Indeed, the day of the LORD is near; It will be a day of clouds, A time of doom for the nations.
New Century Version
The day is near; the Lord 's day of judging is near. It is a cloudy day and a time when the nations will be judged.
Amplified Bible
"For the day is near, Even the day of the LORD is near, It will be a cloudy day; A time of doom for the nations.
World English Bible
For the day is near, even the day of Yahweh is near; it shall be a day of clouds, a time of the nations.
Geneva Bible (1587)
For the day is neere, & the day of the Lord is at hand, a cloudie day, and it shall be the time of the heathen.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"For the day is near, Even the day of the LORD is near; It will be a day of clouds, A time of doom for the nations.
Legacy Standard Bible
For the day is near,Even the day of Yahweh is near;It will be a day of clouds,A time of doom for the nations.
Berean Standard Bible
For the day is near, the Day of the LORD is near. It will be a day of clouds, a time of doom for the nations.
Contemporary English Version
because you will soon be punished! That will be a time of darkness and doom for all nations.
Complete Jewish Bible
For the day is near, the Day of Adonai , a day of clouds, the time of the Goyim.
Darby Translation
For the day is at hand, yea, the day of Jehovah is at hand, a day of clouds; it shall be the time of the nations.
Easy-to-Read Version
That day is near! Yes, the Lord 's day for judging is near. It will be a cloudy day, the time for judging the nations.
George Lamsa Translation
For the day is near, even the day of the LORD is near; a cloudy day; a time of reckoning for the nations.
Good News Translation
The day is near, the day when the Lord will act, A day of clouds and trouble for the nations.
Lexham English Bible
For a day is near; indeed, a day is near for Yahweh. A day of cloud, a time of the nations it will be.
Literal Translation
For the day is near, even the day of Jehovah is near, a day of clouds; it shall be the time of the nations.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
for the daye is here, the daye of ye LORDE is come: the darcke daye of ye Heithe the houre is at honde,
American Standard Version
For the day is near, even the day of Jehovah is near; it shall be a day of clouds, a time of the nations.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
For the day is near, even the day of the LORD is near, a day of clouds, it shall be the time of the nations.
King James Version (1611)
For the day is neere, euen the day of the Lord is neere, a cloudie day; it shalbe the time of the heathen.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
For the day is neare, the day of the Lorde is at hande, the darke day, the time of the nations shalbe,
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
For the day of the Lord is nigh, a day of cloud; it shall be the end of the nations.
English Revised Version
For the day is near, even the day of the LORD is near, a day of clouds; it shall be the time of the heathen.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
wo! to the dai, for the dai is niy; and the dai of the Lord neiyith, the dai of a cloude. The tyme of hethene men schal be;
Update Bible Version
For the day is near, even the day of Yahweh is near; it shall be a day of clouds, a time of the nations.
Webster's Bible Translation
For the day [is] near, even the day of the LORD [is] near, a cloudy day; it shall be the time of the heathen.
New English Translation
For the day is near, the day of the Lord is near; it will be a day of storm clouds, it will be a time of judgment for the nations.
New King James Version
For the day is near, Even the day of the LORD is near; It will be a day of clouds, the time of the Gentiles.
New Living Translation
for the terrible day is almost here— the day of the Lord ! It is a day of clouds and gloom, a day of despair for the nations.
New Life Bible
For the day is near. The day of the Lord is near. It will be a day of clouds, a time of trouble for the nations.
New Revised Standard
For a day is near, the day of the Lord is near; it will be a day of clouds, a time of doom for the nations.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
For near, is a day, Yea near, is a day pertaining to Yahweh, A day of cloud, A time of nations, shall it be!
Douay-Rheims Bible
For the day is near, yea the day of the Lord is near: a cloudy day, it shall be the time of the nations.
Revised Standard Version
For the day is near, the day of the LORD is near; it will be a day of clouds, a time of doom for the nations.
Young's Literal Translation
For near [is] a day, near [is] a day to Jehovah! A day of clouds, the time of nations it is.

Contextual Overview

1 The word of the Lord came to me again, saying, 2 Son of man, be a prophet, and say, These are the words of the Lord: Give a cry, Aha, for the day! 3 For the day is near, the day of the Lord is near, a day of cloud; it will be the time of the nations. 4 And a sword will come on Egypt, and cruel pain will be in Ethiopia, when they are falling by the sword in Egypt; and they will take away her wealth and her bases will be broken down. 5 Ethiopia and Put and Lud and all the mixed people and Libya and the children of the land of the Cherethites will all be put to death with them by the sword. 6 This is what the Lord has said: The supporters of Egypt will have a fall, and the pride of her power will come down: from Migdol to Syene they will be put to the sword in it, says the Lord. 7 And she will be made waste among the countries which have been made waste, and her towns will be among the towns which are unpeopled. 8 And they will be certain that I am the Lord, when I have put a fire in Egypt and all her helpers are broken. 9 In that day men will go out quickly to take the news, causing fear in untroubled Ethiopia; and bitter pain will come on them as in the day of Egypt; for see, it is coming. 10 This is what the Lord has said: I will put an end to great numbers of the people of Egypt by the hand of Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the day is: Ezekiel 7:7, Ezekiel 7:12, Psalms 37:13, Obadiah 1:15, Joel 2:1, Zephaniah 1:7, Zephaniah 1:14, Matthew 24:33, Philippians 4:5, James 5:9, Revelation 6:17

a cloudy: Ezekiel 30:18, Ezekiel 32:7, Ezekiel 34:12, Exodus 14:20, Exodus 14:24, Isaiah 19:1, Joel 2:1, Joel 2:2, Amos 5:16-20

the time: Ezekiel 29:12, Psalms 110:6, Psalms 149:7-9, Isaiah 24:21-23, Isaiah 34:2-17, Jeremiah 25:15-29, Joel 3:11-14, Zephaniah 3:6, Zephaniah 3:7, Zechariah 14:3-19, Revelation 19:13-21

Reciprocal: Job 3:5 - let a cloud Isaiah 13:6 - for the day Ezekiel 13:5 - the day Ezekiel 21:25 - whose Joel 3:12 - for

Cross-References

Genesis 30:2
But Jacob was angry with Rachel, and said, Am I in the place of God, who has kept your body from having fruit?
Genesis 30:3
Then she said, Here is my servant Bilhah, go in to her, so that she may have a child on my knees, and I may have a family by her.
Genesis 30:9
When it was clear to Leah that she would have no more children for a time, she gave Zilpah, her servant, to Jacob as a wife.
Genesis 50:23
And Joseph saw Ephraim's children of the third generation: and the children of Machir, the son of Manasseh, came to birth on Joseph's knees.
Ruth 4:11
And all the people who were in the public place, and the responsible men, said, We are witnesses. May the Lord make this woman, who is about to come into your house, like Rachel and Leah, which two were the builders of the house of Israel: and may you have wealth in Ephrathah, and be great in Beth-lehem;
Job 3:12
Why did the knees take me, or why the breasts that they might give me milk?

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For the day is near,.... The day of Egypt's destruction, the time fixed for it:

even the day of the Lord is near; the day appointed by him, and in which he would make himself known by the judgments he executed: Kimchi observes, that, the same year this prophecy was delivered, Egypt was given into the hands of the king of Babylon:

a cloudy day; or; "a day of cloud" e; which was seldom seen in Egypt in a literal sense, rarely having any rain, their country being watered by the Nile; but now, in a figurative sense, the clouds would gather thick and black, and threaten with a horrible tempest of divine wrath, and of ruin and destruction:

it shall be the time of the Heathen: both when the Heathen nation of the Chaldeans should distress and conquer others; and when Heathen nations, as the Egyptians, Ethiopians, and others, should be destroyed by them. The Targum is,

"it shall be the time of the breaking or destruction of the people.''

e יום ענן "dies nubis", V. L. Pagniaus, Montanus, Cocceius, Starckius.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The time of the pagan - The time when the pagan (Egyptians) shall be judged.


 
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