Joel 1:15

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible

Alas for the day! For near is the day of Yahweh, and, as a veritable Destruction from the Destroyer, shall it come.

Parallel Translations

Complete Jewish Bible
"Oh no! The Day! The Day of Adonai is upon us! As destruction from Shaddai it is coming!

Darby Translation
Alas for the day! for the day of Jehovah is at hand, and as destruction from the Almighty shall it come.

Hebrew Names Version
Alas for the day! For the day of the LORD is at hand, And it will come as destruction from Shaddai.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Alas for the day! for the day of the LORD is at hand, and as a destruction from the Almighty shall it come.

American Standard Version
Alas for the day! for the day of Jehovah is at hand, and as destruction from the Almighty shall it come.

Bible in Basic English
Sorrow for the day! for the day of the Lord is near, and as destruction from the Ruler of all it will come.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Alas: for the day, for the day of the Lord is at hand, and it commeth as a destruction from the Almightie.

George Lamsa Translation
Alas, alas for the day! for the day of the LORD is at hand, and as plunder from God shall it come.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Alas for this day, for the day of the Lorde is at hande, euen as a destruction from the almightie shall it come.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Alas, Alas, Alas for the day! for the day of the Lord is nigh, and it will come as trouble upon trouble.

English Revised Version
Alas for the day! for the day of the LORD is at hand, and as destruction from the Almighty shall it come,

Amplified Bible
Alas for the day! For the [judgment] day of the LORD is at hand, And it will come [upon the nation] as a destruction from the Almighty.

World English Bible
Alas for the day! For the day of Yahweh is at hand, And it will come as destruction from the Almighty.

The Holy Bible, Berean Study Bible
Alas for the day! For the Day of the LORD is near, and it will come like destruction from the Almighty.

Contemporary English Version
We are in for trouble! Soon the Lord All-Powerful will bring disaster.

New Revised Standard
Alas for the day! For the day of the Lord is near, and as destruction from the Almighty it comes.

King James Version (1611)
Alas for the day: for the day of the Lord is at hand, and as a destruction from the Almightie shall it come.

King James Version
Alas for the day! for the day of the Lord is at hand, and as a destruction from the Almighty shall it come.

THE MESSAGE
What a day! Doomsday! God 's Judgment Day has come. The Strong God has arrived. This is serious business! Food is just a memory at our tables, as are joy and singing from God's Sanctuary. The seeds in the field are dead, barns deserted, Grain silos abandoned. Who needs them? The crops have failed! The farm animals groan—oh, how they groan! The cattle mill around. There's nothing for them to eat. Not even the sheep find anything.

New International Version (1984)
Alas for that day! For the day of the LORD is near; it will come like destruction from the Almighty.

New Century Version
What a terrible day it will be! The Lord 's day of judging is near, when punishment will come like a destroying attack from the Almighty.

New English Translation
How awful that day will be! For the day of the Lord is near; it will come as destruction from the Divine Destroyer.

New American Standard Bible
Woe for the day! For the day of the LORD is near, And it will come as destruction from the Almighty.

New International Version
Alas for that day! For the day of the Lord is near; it will come like destruction from the Almighty.

New King James Version
Alas for the day! For the day of the LORD is at hand; It shall come as destruction from the Almighty.

New Living Translation
The day of the Lord is near, the day when destruction comes from the Almighty. How terrible that day will be!

Lexham English Bible
Ah! For the day! For the day of Yahweh is near. It will come like destruction from Shaddai.

Literal Translation
Alas for the day! For the day of Jehovah is at hand. And it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
alas, alas for this daye. And why? the daye of the LORDE is at honde, and commeth as a destroyer from the Allmightie.

Update Bible Version
Alas for the day! for the day of Yahweh is at hand, and as destruction from the Almighty it shall come.

Webster's Bible Translation
Alas for the day! for the day of the LORD [is] at hand, and as a destruction from the Almighty shall it come.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Ah, ah, ah, for the day: because the day of the Lord is at hand, and it shall come like destruction from the mighty.

Revised Standard Version
Alas for the day! For the day of the LORD is near, and as destruction from the Almighty it comes.

New Life Bible
What a bad day it will be! The day of the Lord is near, when the All-powerful God will come to destroy.

Good News Translation
The day of the Lord is near, the day when the Almighty brings destruction. What terror that day will bring!

Christian Standard Bible®
Woe because of that day! For the Day of the Lord is near and will come as devastation from the Almighty.

Easy-to-Read Version
Be sad because the Lord 's special day is near. At that time punishment will come like an attack from God All-Powerful.

English Standard Version
Alas for the day! For the day of the Lord is near, and as destruction from the Almighty it comes.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
A! A! to the dai; for the dai of the Lord is niy, and schal come as a tempest fro the myyti.

Young's Literal Translation
And cry unto Jehovah, `Alas for the day! For near [is] a day of Jehovah, And as destruction from the mighty it cometh.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Alas for the day! For the day of the LORD is near, And it will come as destruction from the Almighty.

Contextual Overview

¹⁴ Hallow ye a fast, Call a solemn assembly, Gather, O elders, all the inhabitants of the land, unto the house of Yahweh your God, - and make ye outcry unto Yahweh. ¹⁵ Alas for the day! For near is the day of Yahweh, and, as a veritable Destruction from the Destroyer, shall it come. ¹⁶ Is it not, before our eyes, that, food, hath been cut off? From the house of our God, rejoicing and exultation. ¹⁷ Rotted hath the seed, under their clods, Laid waste are their stores, Thrown down are the garners, - Yea abashed is the corn. ¹⁸ How do the beasts groan! Perplexed are the herds of oxen, because there is no pasture for them, - even, the flocks of sheep, are destroyed! ¹⁹ Unto thee, O Yahweh, will I cry, - for, a fire, hath consumed the pastures of the wilderness, and, a flame, hath set ablaze all the trees of the field. ²⁰ Even the beasts of the field, moan unto thee, - because dried up are the channels of water, and, a fire, hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Alas: Joel 2:2, Jeremiah 30:7, Amos 5:16-18

the day of: Joel 2:1, Psalms 37:13, Isaiah 13:6-9, Ezekiel 7:2-12, Ezekiel 12:22-28, Zephaniah 1:14-18, Luke 19:41-44, James 5:9, Revelation 6:17

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 7:23 - shall destroy 1 Kings 17:12 - that we may eat it 1 Kings 18:2 - a sore Esther 4:16 - fast Job 23:16 - Almighty Job 31:23 - destruction Isaiah 24:11 - a crying Jeremiah 4:20 - upon destruction Jeremiah 46:10 - the day Ezekiel 6:11 - Alas Ezekiel 13:5 - the day Amos 5:18 - the day of the Lord is 2 Peter 3:10 - the day Revelation 4:8 - Lord God Almighty Revelation 18:10 - Alas

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Alas for the day! for the day of the Lord [is] at hand,.... A time of severer and heavier judgments than these of the locusts, caterpillars, c. which were a presage and emblem of greater ones, even of the total destruction of their city, temple, and nation, either by the Chaldeans, or by the Romans, or both:

and as a destruction from the Almighty shall it come unawares, suddenly, and irresistibly: there is in the Hebrew text an elegant play on words, which may be rendered, as "wasting from the waster", or "destruction from the destroyer, shall it come" x; even from the almighty God, who is able to save and destroy, and none can deliver out of his hands; see Isaiah 13:6; the word signifies one powerful and victorious, as Aben Ezra observes; and so it does in the Arabic language.

x כשד משדי "uti vastitas a Deo vastatore", Drusius.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Alas for the day! for the Day of the Lord is at hand - The judgment of God, then, which they were to deprecate, was still to come. : “All times and all days are God’s. Yet they are said to be our days, in which God leaves us to our own freedom, to do as we will,” and which we may use to repent and turn to Him. “Whence Christ saith, ‘O Jerusalem - if thou hadst known in this thy day the things which belong unto thy peace’ Luke 19:42. That time, on the contrary, is said to be God’s Day, in which He doth any new, rare, or special thing, such as is the Day of Judgment or vengeance.” All judgment in time is an image of the Judgment for eternity. “The Day of the Lord” is, then, each “day of vengeance in which God doth to man according to His will and just judgment, inflicting the punishment which he deserves, as man did to Him in his day, manifoldly dishonoring Him, according to his own perverse will.” That Day “is at hand;” suddenly to come. Speed then must be used to prevent it. Prevented it may be by speedy repentance before it comes; but when it does come, there will be no avoiding it, for

As a destruction from the Almighty shall it come - The name “the Almighty” or “God Almighty” is but seldom used in Holy Scripture. God revealed Himself by this Name to Abraham, when renewing to him the promise which was beyond nature, that he should be a father of many nations, when he and Sarah were old and well stricken in age. He said, I am God Almighty; walk before Me and be thou perfect Genesis 17:1-6, Genesis 17:16-21; Genesis 18:10-14; Romans 4:17-21. God Almighty uses it again of Himself in renewing the blessing to Jacob Genesis 35:11; and Isaac and Jacob use it in blessing in His Name Genesis 28:3; Genesis 43:14; Genesis 48:3; Genesis 49:25. It is not used as a mere name of God, but always in reference to His might, as in the book of Job which treats chiefly of His power . In His days of judgment God manifests Himself as the All-mighty and All-just. Hence, in the New Testament, it occurs almost exclusively in the Revelations, which reveal His judgments to come . Here the words form a sort of terrible proverb, from where they are adopted from Joel by the prophet Isaiah Isaiah 13:6. The word “destruction, שׁד shôd,” is formed from the same root as “Almighty, שׁדי shadday. It shall come as might from the Mighty.” Only, the word “might” is always used of “might” put forth to destroy, a “mighty destruction.” He says then, in fact, that that Day shall come, like might put forth by the Almighty Himself; to destroy His enemies, irresistible, inevitable, unendurable, overwhelming the sinner.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 15. Alas for the day! — The Syriac repeats this, the Vulgate, Septuagint, and Arabic, thrice: "Alas, alas, alas, for the day!"

As a destruction from the Almighty — The destruction that is now coming is no ordinary calamity; it is as a signal judgment immediately inflicted by the Almighty.