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Be silent before the Lord God,
    for the day of the Lord is at hand!
The Lord has prepared a sacrifice;
    he has consecrated his guests.(A)

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

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

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The Great Day of the Lord

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

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10 That day is the day of the Lord God of hosts,
    a day of retribution,
    to gain vindication from his foes.
The sword shall devour and be sated
    and drink its fill of their blood.
For the Lord God of hosts holds a sacrifice
    in the land of the north by the River Euphrates.(A)

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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.
For the Lord has a sacrifice in Bozrah,
    a great slaughter in the land of Edom.(A)

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

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Footnotes

  1. 13.6 Traditional rendering of Heb Shaddai

Again he sent other slaves, saying, ‘Tell those who have been invited: Look, I have prepared my dinner, my oxen and my fat calves have been slaughtered, and everything is ready; come to the wedding banquet.’(A)

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The Day of the Lord a Dark Day

18 Woe to you who desire the day of the Lord!
    Why do you want the day of the Lord?
It is darkness, not light,(A)
19     as if someone fled from a lion
    and was met by a bear
or went into the house and rested a hand against the wall
    and was bitten by a snake.(B)
20 Is not the day of the Lord darkness, not light,
    and gloom with no brightness in it?(C)

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

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12 For the Lord of hosts has a day
    against all that is proud and lofty,
    against all that is lifted up and high;[a](A)

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Footnotes

  1. 2.12 Cn Compare Gk: Heb low

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

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The Beast and Its Armies Defeated

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

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10 But the day of the Lord will come like a thief, and then the heavens will pass away with a loud noise, and the elements will be destroyed with fire, and the earth and everything that is done on it will be disclosed.[a](A)

11 Since all these things are to be destroyed in this way, what sort of persons ought you to be in leading lives of holiness and godliness, 12 waiting for and hastening[b] the coming of the day of God, because of which the heavens will be set ablaze and destroyed and the elements will melt with fire?

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Footnotes

  1. 3.10 Other ancient authorities read will not be found or will be burned up
  2. 3.12 Or earnestly desiring

The Great Day of the Lord

[a]See, the day is coming, burning like an oven, when all the arrogant and all evildoers will be stubble; the day that comes shall burn them up, says the Lord of hosts, so that it will leave them neither root nor branch.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 4.1 3.19 in Heb

10 And if a relative, one who burns it,[a] takes up the body to bring it out of the house and says to someone in the innermost parts of the house, “Is anyone else with you?” the answer will come, “No.” Then the relative[b] shall say, “Hush! We must not mention the name of the Lord.”

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  1. 6.10 Meaning of Heb uncertain
  2. 6.10 Heb he

11 The Lord utters his voice
    at the head of his army;
how vast is his host!
    Numberless are those who obey his command.
Truly the day of the Lord is great,
    terrible indeed—who can endure it?(A)

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17 As for you, mortal, thus says the Lord God: Speak to the birds of every kind and to all the wild animals: Assemble and come, gather from all around to 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.(A) 18 You shall eat the flesh of the mighty and drink the blood of the princes of the earth—of rams, of lambs, and of goats, of bulls, all of them fatted calves of Bashan.(B) 19 You shall eat fat until you are filled and drink blood until 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 chariots, with warriors and all kinds of soldiers, says the Lord God.(C)

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10 See, the day! See, it comes!
    Your doom[a] has gone out.
The rod has blossomed; pride has budded.

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Footnotes

  1. 7.10 Meaning of Heb uncertain

Your doom[a] has come to you,
    O inhabitant of the land.
The time has come; the day is near—
    of tumult, not of reveling on the mountains.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 7.7 Meaning of Heb uncertain

And I said, “Woe is me! I am lost, for I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips, yet my eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts!”(A)

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12 giving thanks to the Father,[a] who has enabled[b] you[c] to share in the inheritance of the saints in the light.

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Footnotes

  1. 1.12 Other ancient authorities read God the Father or the God and Father
  2. 1.12 Other ancient authorities read called
  3. 1.12 Other ancient authorities read us

Let your gentleness be known to everyone. The Lord is near.(A)

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20 But who indeed are you, a human, to argue with God? Will what is molded say to the one who molds it, “Why have you made me like this?”(A)

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

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