Alas for the day! for the day of the Lord [is] at hand,.... A time of severer and heavier judgments than these of the locusts, caterpillars, &c. which were a presage and emblem of greater ones, even of the total destruction of their city, temple, and nation, either by the Chaldeans, or by the Romans, or both:and as a destruction from the Almighty shall it come; unawares, suddenly, and irresistibly: there is in the Hebrew text an elegant play on words, which may be rendered, as "wasting from the waster", or "destruction from the destroyer, shall it come" ; even from the almighty God, who is able to save and destroy, and none can deliver out of his hands; see Isa 13:6; the word signifies one powerful and victorious, as Aben Ezra observes; and so it does in the Arabic language.
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Joel 1:15
Joel 1:15
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the day of: Joel 2:1; Psalms 37:13; Isaiah 13:6-9; Ezekiel 7:2-12, Ezekiel 12:22-28; Zephaniah 1:14-18; Luke 19:41-44; James 5:9; Revelation 6:17