14 The great day of the Lord is near, it is near, and hasteth greatly, even the voice of the day of the Lord: the mighty man shall cry there bitterly.

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14 The great day of the Lord(A) is near(B)
    near and coming quickly.
The cry on the day of the Lord is bitter;
    the Mighty Warrior shouts his battle cry.

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For the day is near, even the day of the Lord is near, a cloudy day; it shall be the time of the heathen.

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For the day is near,(A)
    the day of the Lord(B) is near—
a day of clouds,
    a time of doom for the nations.

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Hold thy peace at the presence of the Lord God: for the day of the Lord is at hand: for the Lord hath prepared a sacrifice, he hath bid his guests.

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Be silent(A) before the Sovereign Lord,
    for the day of the Lord(B) is near.
The Lord has prepared a sacrifice;(C)
    he has consecrated those he has invited.

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11 And the Lord shall utter his voice before his army: for his camp is very great: for he is strong that executeth his word: for the day of the Lord is great and very terrible; and who can abide it?

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11 The Lord(A) thunders(B)
    at the head of his army;(C)
his forces are beyond number,
    and mighty is the army that obeys his command.
The day of the Lord is great;(D)
    it is dreadful.
    Who can endure it?(E)

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Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord:

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“See, I will send the prophet Elijah(A) to you before that great and dreadful day of the Lord comes.(B)

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12 The time is come, the day draweth near: let not the buyer rejoice, nor the seller mourn: for wrath is upon all the multitude thereof.

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12 The time has come!
    The day has arrived!
Let not the buyer(A) rejoice
    nor the seller grieve,
    for my wrath is on the whole crowd.(B)

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16 For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:

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16 For the Lord himself will come down from heaven,(A) with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel(B) and with the trumpet call of God,(C) and the dead in Christ will rise first.(D)

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

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

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Footnotes

  1. Joel 1:15 Hebrew Shaddai

An end is come, the end is come: it watcheth for thee; behold, it is come.

The morning is come unto thee, O thou that dwellest in the land: the time is come, the day of trouble is near, and not the sounding again of the mountains.

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The end(A) has come!
    The end has come!
It has roused itself against you.
    See, it comes!
Doom has come upon you,
    upon you who dwell in the land.
The time has come! The day(B) is near!(C)
    There is panic, not joy, on the mountains.

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Behold, their valiant ones shall cry without: the ambassadors of peace shall weep bitterly.

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Look, their brave men(A) cry aloud in the streets;
    the envoys(B) of peace weep bitterly.

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Therefore said I, Look away from me; I will weep bitterly, labour not to comfort me, because of the spoiling of the daughter of my people.

For it is a day of trouble, and of treading down, and of perplexity by the Lord God of hosts in the valley of vision, breaking down the walls, and of crying to the mountains.

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Therefore I said, “Turn away from me;
    let me weep(A) bitterly.
Do not try to console me
    over the destruction of my people.”(B)

The Lord, the Lord Almighty, has a day(C)
    of tumult and trampling(D) and terror(E)
    in the Valley of Vision,(F)
a day of battering down walls(G)
    and of crying out to the mountains.

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And Heshbon shall cry, and Elealeh: their voice shall be heard even unto Jahaz: therefore the armed soldiers of Moab shall cry out; his life shall be grievous unto him.

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Heshbon(A) and Elealeh(B) cry out,
    their voices are heard all the way to Jahaz.(C)
Therefore the armed men of Moab cry out,
    and their hearts are faint.

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15 And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every free man, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains;

16 And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb:

17 For the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand?

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15 Then the kings of the earth, the princes, the generals, the rich, the mighty, and everyone else, both slave and free,(A) hid in caves and among the rocks of the mountains.(B) 16 They called to the mountains and the rocks, “Fall on us(C) and hide us[a] from the face of him who sits on the throne(D) and from the wrath of the Lamb! 17 For the great day(E) of their[b] wrath has come, and who can withstand it?”(F)

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Footnotes

  1. Revelation 6:16 See Hosea 10:8.
  2. Revelation 6:17 Some manuscripts his