(A)Wail, for (B)the day of the Lord is near;
    as destruction from the Almighty[a] it will come!

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 13:6 The Hebrew words for destruction and almighty sound alike

15 Alas for the day!
(A)For the day of the Lord is near,
    and as destruction from the Almighty[a] it comes.

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Footnotes

  1. Joel 1:15 Destruction sounds like the Hebrew for Almighty

The Day of the Lord Is Near

(A)Be silent before the Lord God!
    For (B)the day of the Lord is near;
(C)the Lord has prepared a sacrifice
    and (D)consecrated his guests.

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Let Justice Roll Down

18 Woe to you who desire (A)the day of the Lord!
    Why would you have the day of the Lord?
(B)It is darkness, and not light,

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Behold, (A)the day of the Lord comes,
    cruel, with wrath and fierce anger,
to make the land a desolation
    and (B)to destroy its sinners from it.

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10 (A)They will stand far off, in fear of her torment, and say,

“Alas! Alas! (B)You great city,
    you mighty city, Babylon!
For (C)in a single hour your judgment has come.”

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For you yourselves are fully aware that (A)the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night. While people are saying, “There is peace and security,” then (B)sudden destruction will come upon them (C)as labor pains come upon a pregnant woman, and they will not escape.

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11 (A)The Lord utters his voice
    before (B)his army,
for his camp is exceedingly great;
    (C)he who executes his word is powerful.
(D)For the day of the Lord is (E)great and very awesome;
    (F)who can endure it?

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(A)“Son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus says the Lord God:

(B)“Wail, ‘Alas for the day!’
    (C)For the day is near,
    (D)the day of the Lord is near;
it will be (E)a day of clouds,
    a time of doom for[a] the nations.

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  1. Ezekiel 30:3 Hebrew lacks doom for

(A)Suddenly Babylon has fallen and been broken;
    (B)wail for her!
(C)Take balm for her pain;
    perhaps she may be healed.

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(A)For the Lord has a day of vengeance,
    a year of recompense for the cause of Zion.

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12 (A)For the Lord of hosts has a day
    against all that is proud and lofty,
    against all that is lifted up—and it shall be brought low;

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Warning to the Rich

Come now, (A)you rich, weep and howl for the (B)miseries that are coming upon you.

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(A)“Behold, I will send you (B)Elijah the prophet (C)before the great and awesome day of the Lord comes.

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(A)before the decree takes effect[a]
    —before the day passes away (B)like chaff—
(C)before there comes upon you
    the burning anger of the Lord,
before there comes upon you
    the day of the anger of the Lord.
(D)Seek the Lord, (E)all you humble of the land,
    who do his just commands;[b]
(F)seek righteousness; seek humility;
    (G)perhaps (H)you may be hidden
    on the day of the anger of the Lord.

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  1. Zephaniah 2:2 Hebrew gives birth
  2. Zephaniah 2:3 Or who carry out his judgment

14 (A)The great day of the Lord is near,
    near and hastening fast;
the sound of the day of the Lord is bitter;
    (B)the mighty man cries aloud there.

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31 (A)The sun shall be turned to darkness, (B)and the moon to blood, (C)before the great and awesome day of the Lord comes.

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A Call to Repentance

13 (A)Put on sackcloth and lament, (B)O priests;
    (C)wail, O ministers of the altar.
Go in, (D)pass the night in sackcloth,
    (E)O ministers of my God!
(F)Because grain offering and drink offering
    are withheld from the house of your God.

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Awake, you drunkards, and weep,
    and (A)wail, all you drinkers of wine,
because of (B)the sweet wine,
    for it is cut off from your mouth.

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31 (A)Wail, O (B)gate; cry out, O city;
    melt in fear, (C)O Philistia, all of you!
(D)For smoke comes out of the north,
    and there is no straggler in his ranks.

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23 For I was (A)in terror of calamity from God,
    and I could not have faced his (B)majesty.

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11 (A)Be ashamed,[a] O tillers of the soil;
    wail, O vinedressers,
for the wheat and the barley,
    (B)because the harvest of the field has perished.

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  1. Joel 1:11 The Hebrew words for dry up and be ashamed in verses 10–12, 17 sound alike

12 (A)Cry out and wail, son of man, for it is against my people. It is against all the princes of Israel. They are delivered over to the sword with my people. (B)Strike therefore upon your thigh.

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“Wail, O (A)Heshbon, for Ai is laid waste!
    Cry out, O daughters of (B)Rabbah!
(C)Put on sackcloth,
    lament, and run to and fro among the hedges!
For (D)Milcom shall go into exile,
    (E)with his priests and his officials.

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14 behold, (A)my servants shall sing for gladness of heart,
    but you shall cry out for pain of heart
    and shall wail for breaking of spirit.

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