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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20 But (A)the Lord is in his holy temple;
    (B)let all the earth keep silence before him.”

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13 Be silent, all flesh, before the Lord, for he has roused himself from his holy dwelling.

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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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10 (A)That day is the day of the Lord God of hosts,
    (B)a day of vengeance,
    (C)to avenge himself on his foes.
(D)The sword shall devour and be sated
    and drink its fill of their blood.
For the Lord God of hosts holds (E)a sacrifice
    (F)in the north country (G)by the river Euphrates.

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The Lord has a sword; it is sated with blood;
    it is gorged with fat,
    with the blood of lambs and goats,
    with the fat of the kidneys of rams.
(A)For the Lord has a sacrifice in Bozrah,
    a great slaughter in the land of Edom.

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(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

And he said, “Peaceably; I have come to sacrifice to the Lord. (A)Consecrate yourselves, and come with me to the sacrifice.” And he consecrated Jesse and his sons and invited them to the sacrifice.

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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,
19     (C)as if a man fled from a lion,
    and a bear met him,
or went into the house and leaned his hand against the wall,
    and a serpent bit him.
20 (D)Is not the day of the Lord darkness, and not light,
    and gloom with no brightness in it?

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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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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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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,
(E)a day of darkness and gloom,
    (F)a day of clouds and thick darkness!
Like blackness there is spread upon the mountains
    (G)a great and powerful people;
(H)their like has never been before,
    nor will be again after them
    through the years of all generations.

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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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17 Then I saw an angel standing in the sun, and with a loud voice he called to (A)all the birds that fly directly overhead, (B)“Come, gather for (C)the great supper of God, 18 (D)to eat the flesh of kings, the flesh of captains, the flesh of mighty men, the flesh of horses and their riders, and the flesh of all men, both free and slave,[a] both small and great.”

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Footnotes

  1. Revelation 19:18 For the contextual rendering of the Greek word doulos, see Preface

10 But (A)the day of the Lord will come like a thief, and then (B)the heavens will pass away with a roar, and (C)the heavenly bodies[a] will be burned up and dissolved, and the earth and the works that are done on it will be exposed.[b]

11 Since all these things are thus to be dissolved, (D)what sort of people ought you to be in lives of holiness and godliness, 12 (E)waiting for and hastening the coming of the day of God, because of which the heavens will be set on fire and dissolved, and (F)the heavenly bodies will melt as they burn!

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Peter 3:10 Or elements; also verse 12
  2. 2 Peter 3:10 Greek found; some manuscripts will be burned up

12 (A)giving thanks[a] to the Father, who has qualified you[b] to share in (B)the inheritance of the saints in light.

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Footnotes

  1. Colossians 1:12 Or patience, with joy giving thanks
  2. Colossians 1:12 Some manuscripts us

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

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Footnotes

  1. Philippians 4:5 Or gentleness

20 But who are you, O man, (A)to answer back to God? (B)Will what is molded say to its molder, “Why have you made me like this?”

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19 Now we know that whatever (A)the law says it speaks to those who are under the law, (B)so that every mouth may be stopped, and (C)the whole world may be held accountable to God.

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16 But he said to him, (A)“A man once (B)gave a great banquet and invited many. 17 And at the time for the banquet he (C)sent his servant[a] to say to those who had been invited, ‘Come, for everything is now ready.’

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Footnotes

  1. Luke 14:17 Or bondservant; also verses 21 (twice), 22, 23

(A)Again he sent other servants, saying, ‘Tell those who are invited, “See, I have prepared my (B)dinner, (C)my oxen and my fat calves have been slaughtered, and everything is ready. Come to the wedding feast.”’

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The Great Day of the Lord

[a] “For behold, (A)the day is coming, (B)burning like an oven, when (C)all the arrogant and (D)all evildoers (E)will be stubble. The day that is coming (F)shall set them ablaze, says the Lord of hosts, so that it will leave them neither root nor branch.

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Footnotes

  1. Malachi 4:1 Ch 4:1–6 is ch 3:19–24 in Hebrew

10 And when one's relative, (A)the one who anoints him for burial, shall take him up to bring the bones out of the house, and shall say to him who is in the innermost parts of the house, “Is there still anyone with you?” he shall say, “No”; and he shall say, (B)“Silence! We must not mention the name of the Lord.”

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17 “As for you, (A)son of man, thus says the Lord God: (B)Speak to (C)the birds of every sort and to (D)all beasts of the field: ‘Assemble and come, gather from all around to (E)the sacrificial feast that I am preparing for you, a great sacrificial feast on the mountains of Israel, and you shall eat flesh and drink blood. 18 (F)You shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of the princes of the earth—of rams, of lambs, and of he-goats, of bulls, all of them (G)fat beasts of Bashan. 19 And you shall eat fat till you are filled, and drink blood till you are drunk, at the sacrificial feast that I am preparing for you. 20 And you shall be filled at my table with horses and charioteers, with mighty men and all kinds of warriors,’ declares the Lord God.

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10 (A)“Behold, the day! Behold, it comes! (B)Your doom has come; (C)the rod has blossomed; pride has budded.

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