Zephaniah 1:14
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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)
Malachi 4:5
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5 See, I will send you the prophet Elijah before the great and terrible day of the Lord comes.(A)
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Ezekiel 30:3
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3 For a day is near,
the day of the Lord is near;
it will be a day of clouds,
a time of doom[a] for the nations.(A)
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- 30.3 Heb lacks of doom
Zephaniah 1:7
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7 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)
Joel 2:11
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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)
1 Thessalonians 4:16
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16 For the Lord himself, with a cry of command, with the archangel’s call and with the sound of God’s trumpet, will descend from heaven, and the dead in Christ will rise first.(A)
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Ezekiel 7:12
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12 The time has come; the day draws near;
let not the buyer rejoice nor the seller mourn,
for wrath is upon all their multitude.
Ezekiel 7:6-7
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6 An end has come; the end has come.
It has awakened against you; see, it comes!
7 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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- 7.7 Meaning of Heb uncertain
Isaiah 15:4
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4 Heshbon and Elealeh cry out;
their voices are heard as far as Jahaz;
therefore the loins of Moab quiver;[a]
his soul trembles.
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- 15.4 Or the armed men of Moab cry aloud
James 5:9
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9 Brothers and sisters, do not grumble against one another, so that you may not be judged. See, the Judge is standing at the doors!(A)
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Acts 2:20
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20 The sun shall be turned to darkness
and the moon to blood,
before the coming of the Lord’s great and glorious day.(A)
Joel 1:15
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15 Alas for the day!
For the day of the Lord is near,
and as destruction from the Almighty[a] it comes.(A)
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- 1.15 Traditional rendering of Heb Shaddai
Isaiah 33:7
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- 33.7 Heb mss: Meaning of MT uncertain
Isaiah 22:4-5
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4 Therefore I said:
“Look away from me;
let me weep bitter tears;
do not try to comfort me
for the destruction of my beloved people.”(A)
5 For the Lord God of hosts has a day
of tumult and trampling and confusion
in the valley of vision,
a battering down of walls
and a cry for help to the mountains.(B)
2 Peter 2:3
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3 And in their greed they will exploit you with deceptive words. Their condemnation, pronounced against them long ago, has not been idle, and their destruction is not asleep.(A)
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Amos 8:2
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2 He said, “Amos, what do you see?” And I said, “A basket of summer fruit.” Then the Lord said to me,
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- 8.2 In Heb the word for end is related to the word for summer fruit
Joel 2:31
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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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Revelation 6:15-17
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15 Then the kings of the earth and the magnates and the generals and the rich and the powerful and everyone, slave and free, hid in the caves and among the rocks of the mountains,(A) 16 calling to the mountains and rocks, “Fall on us and hide us from the face of the one seated on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb,(B) 17 for the great day of their[a] wrath has come, and who is able to stand?”(C)
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- 6.17 Other ancient authorities read his
Zephaniah 1:10
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10 On that day, says the Lord,
a cry will be heard from the Fish Gate,
a wail from the Second Quarter,
a loud crash from the hills.(A)
Joel 3:16
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16 The Lord roars from Zion
and utters his voice from Jerusalem,
and the heavens and the earth shake.
But the Lord is a refuge for his people,
a stronghold for the people of Israel.(A)
Joel 2:1
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2 Blow the trumpet in Zion;
sound the alarm on my holy mountain!
Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble,
for the day of the Lord is coming, it is near—(A)
Ezekiel 12:23
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23 Tell them therefore, “Thus says the Lord God: I will put an end to this proverb, and they shall use it no more as a proverb in Israel.” But say to them: “The days are near, and the fulfillment of every vision.(A)
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Jeremiah 48:41
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41 the towns[a] shall be taken
and the strongholds seized.
The hearts of the warriors of Moab, on that day,
shall be like the heart of a woman in labor.(A)
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- 48.41 Or Kerioth
Jeremiah 30:7
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7 Alas! that day is so great
there is none like it;
it is a time of distress for Jacob,
yet he shall be rescued from it.(A)
Jeremiah 25:36
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36 Listen! The cry of the shepherds
and the wail of the lords of the flock!
For the Lord is despoiling their pasture,
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