Ezekiel 30:3

THE MESSAGE

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.

Bible in Basic English
For the day is near, the day of the Lord is near, a day of cloud; it will be the 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 God , the Master, spoke to me: "Son of man, preach. Give them the Message of God , the Master. Wail: "‘Doomsday!' Time's up! God 's big day of judgment is near. Thick clouds are rolling in. It's doomsday for the nations. Death will rain down on Egypt. Terror will paralyze Ethiopia When they see the Egyptians killed, their wealth hauled off, their foundations demolished, And Ethiopia, Put, Lud, Arabia, Libya —all of Egypt's old allies— killed right along with them. ⁶"‘ God says: "‘Egypt's allies will fall and her proud strength will collapse— From Migdol in the north to Syene in the south, a great slaughter in Egypt! Decree of God , the Master. Egypt, most desolate of the desolate, her cities wasted beyond wasting, Will realize that I am God when I burn her down and her helpers are knocked flat. ⁹ "‘When that happens, I'll send out messengers by ship to sound the alarm among the easygoing Ethiopians. They'll be terrorized. Egypt's doomed! Judgment's coming! ¹⁰"‘ God , the Master, says: "‘I'll put a stop to Egypt's arrogance. I'll use Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon to do it. He and his army, the most brutal of nations, shall be used to destroy the country. They'll brandish their swords and fill Egypt with corpses. I'll dry up the Nile and sell off the land to a bunch of crooks. I'll hire outsiders to come in and waste the country, strip it clean. I, God , have said so. ¹³"‘And now this is what God , the Master, says: "‘I'll smash all the no-god idols; I'll topple all those huge statues in Memphis. The prince of Egypt will be gone for good, and in his place I'll put fear—fear throughout Egypt! I'll demolish Pathros, burn Zoan to the ground, and punish Thebes, Pour my wrath on Pelusium, Egypt's fort, and knock Thebes off its proud pedestal. I'll set Egypt on fire: Pelusium will writhe in pain, Thebes blown away, Memphis raped. The young warriors of On and Pi-beseth will be killed and the cities exiled. A dark day for Tahpanhes when I shatter Egypt, When I break Egyptian power and put an end to her arrogant oppression! She'll disappear in a cloud of dust, her cities hauled off as exiles. That's how I'll punish Egypt, and that's how she'll realize that I am God .'"

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
Jacob got angry with Rachel and said, "Am I God? Am I the one who refused you babies?"

Genesis 30:3
Rachel said, "Here's my maid Bilhah. Sleep with her. Let her substitute for me so I can have a child through her and build a family." So she gave him her maid Bilhah for a wife and Jacob slept with her. Bilhah became pregnant and gave Jacob a son.

Genesis 30:9
When Leah saw that she wasn't having any more children, she gave her maid Zilpah to Jacob for a wife. Zilpah had a son for Jacob. Leah said, "How fortunate!" and she named him Gad (Lucky). When Leah's maid Zilpah had a second son for Jacob, Leah said, "A happy day! The women will congratulate me in my happiness." So she named him Asher (Happy).

Ruth 4:11
All the people in the town square that day, backing up the elders, said, "Yes, we are witnesses. May God make this woman who is coming into your household like Rachel and Leah, the two women who built the family of Israel. May God make you a pillar in Ephrathah and famous in Bethlehem! With the children God gives you from this young woman, may your family rival the family of Perez, the son Tamar bore to Judah."

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.