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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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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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)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

(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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12 (A)The time has come; the day has arrived. Let not (B)the buyer rejoice, nor (C)the seller mourn, (D)for wrath is upon all their multitude.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 7:12 Or abundance; also verses 13, 14

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

Alas! (A)That day is so great
    (B)there is none like it;
it is a time of distress for Jacob;
    yet he shall be saved out of it.

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Behold, their heroes cry in the streets;
    (A)the envoys of peace weep bitterly.

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15 Then the kings of the earth and the great ones and the generals and the rich and the powerful, and everyone, slave[a] and free, (A)hid themselves in the caves and among the rocks of the mountains, 16 (B)calling to the mountains and rocks, “Fall on us and hide us from the face of (C)him who is seated on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb, 17 for (D)the great day of their wrath has come, and (E)who can stand?”

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Footnotes

  1. Revelation 6:15 For the contextual rendering of the Greek word doulos, see Preface

And (A)in their greed they will exploit you (B)with false words. (C)Their condemnation from long ago is not idle, and their destruction is not asleep.

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Do not grumble against one another, brothers, (A)so that you may not be judged; behold, (B)the Judge is standing (C)at the door.

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26 At that time (A)his voice shook the earth, but now he has promised, (B)“Yet once more I will shake not only the earth but also the heavens.”

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16 For (A)the Lord himself will descend (B)from heaven (C)with a cry of command, with the voice of (D)an archangel, and (E)with the sound of the trumpet of God. And (F)the dead in Christ will rise first.

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Let your reasonableness[a] be known to everyone. (A)The Lord is at hand;

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  1. Philippians 4:5 Or gentleness

20 (A)the sun shall be turned to darkness
    and the moon to blood,
    before (B)the day of the Lord comes, the great and magnificent day.

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10 “On that day,” declares the Lord,
    “a cry will be heard from (A)the Fish Gate,
(B)a wail from (C)the Second Quarter,
    a loud crash from the hills.

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And he said, (A)“Amos, what do you see?” And I said, (B)“A basket of summer fruit.” Then the Lord said to me,

(C)“The end[a] has come upon my people Israel;
    I will never again pass by them.

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  1. Amos 8:2 The Hebrew words for end and summer fruit sound alike

16 (A)The Lord roars from Zion,
    and (B)utters his voice from Jerusalem,
    (C)and the heavens and the earth quake.
But the Lord is (D)a refuge to his people,
    a stronghold to the people of Israel.

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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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The Day of the Lord

(A)Blow a trumpet in (B)Zion;
    sound an alarm on (C)my holy mountain!
Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble,
    for (D)the day of the Lord is coming; it is near,

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23 Tell them therefore, ‘Thus says the Lord God: I will put an end to this proverb, and they shall no more use it as a proverb in Israel.’ But say to them, (A)The days are near, and the fulfillment[a] of every vision.

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  1. Ezekiel 12:23 Hebrew word

(A)An end has come; the end has come; it has awakened against you. Behold, it comes. (B)Your doom[a] has come to you, O inhabitant of the land. (C)The time has come; the day is near, a day of tumult, and not (D)of joyful shouting on the mountains.

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  1. Ezekiel 7:7 The meaning of the Hebrew word is uncertain; also verse 10

41 (A)the cities shall be taken
    and the strongholds seized.
(B)The heart of the warriors of Moab shall be in that day
    like the heart of (C)a woman in her birth pains;

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36 A voice—the cry (A)of the shepherds,
    (B)and the wail of the lords of the flock!
For the Lord is laying waste their pasture,

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