12 The Lord Almighty has a day in store
    for all the proud and lofty,
for all that is exalted
    (and they will be humbled),

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15 Alas for that day!
    For the day of the Lord is near;
    it will come like destruction from the Almighty.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Joel 1:15 Hebrew Shaddai

The day of the Lord

18 Woe to you who long
    for the day of the Lord!
Why do you long for the day of the Lord?
    That day will be darkness, not light.
19 It will be as though a man fled from a lion
    only to meet a bear,
as though he entered his house
    and rested his hand on the wall
    only to have a snake bite him.
20 Will not the day of the Lord be darkness, not light –
    pitch-dark, without a ray of brightness?

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