The Day of the Lord Is Near

15 For (A)the day of the Lord is near upon all the nations.
(B)As you have done, it shall be done to you;
    your deeds shall return on your own head.

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(A)Because you have plundered many nations,
    all the remnant of the peoples shall plunder you,
(B)for the blood of man and (C)violence to the earth,
    to cities and all who dwell in them.

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13 For (A)judgment is without mercy to one who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.

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(A)For with the judgment you pronounce you will be judged, and (B)with the measure you use it will be measured to you.

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    (A)For the day is near,
    (B)the day of the Lord is near;
it will be (C)a day of clouds,
    a time of doom for[a] the nations.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 30:3 Hebrew lacks doom for

15 And in anger and wrath (A)I will execute vengeance
    on the nations that did not obey.

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11 (A)Hasten and come,
    all you surrounding nations,
    and gather yourselves there.
(B)Bring down your warriors, O Lord.
12 Let the nations stir themselves up
    and come up to (C)the Valley of Jehoshaphat;
(D)for there I will sit to judge
    all the surrounding nations.

13 (E)Put in the sickle,
    (F)for the harvest is ripe.
(G)Go in, tread,
    (H)for the winepress is full.
The vats overflow,
    for their evil is great.

14 Multitudes, multitudes,
    in the valley of decision!
For (I)the day of the Lord is near
    in the valley of decision.

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29 (A)“Summon archers against Babylon, all those who bend the bow. (B)Encamp around her; let no one escape. (C)Repay her according to her deeds; do to her according to all that she has done. For she has (D)proudly defied the Lord, the Holy One of Israel.

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O daughter of Babylon, (A)doomed to be destroyed,
    blessed shall he be who (B)repays you
    with what you have done to us!

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Behold, I will stir them up from the place to which you have sold them, and (A)I will return your payment on your own head. I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hand of the people of Judah, and they will sell them to the (B)Sabeans, to a nation far away, for the Lord has spoken.”

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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

15 As you (A)rejoiced over the inheritance of the house of Israel, because it was desolate, so I will deal with you; you shall be desolate, (B)Mount Seir, and all Edom, all of it. Then (C)they will know that I am the Lord.

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12 For thus says the Lord: (A)“If those who did not deserve to drink the cup must drink it, (B)will you go unpunished? You shall not go unpunished, but you must drink.

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