For the day is near, Even the day of the Lord is near; It will be a day of clouds, the time of the Gentiles.
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- WEB For the day is near, even the day of Yahweh is near; it shall be a day of clouds, a time of the nations.
- KJV For the day is near, even the day of the LORD is near, a cloudy day; it shall be the time of the heathen.
- BSB For the day is near, the Day of the LORD is near. It will be a day of clouds, a time of doom for the nations.
- NASB “For the day is near, Indeed, the day of the Lord is near; It will be a day of clouds, A time of doom for the nations.
- NLT for the terrible day is almost here— the day of the Lord! It is a day of clouds and gloom, a day of despair for the nations.
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Quick answer
The day of the LORD is near, a dark day of judgment for the nations. God's reckoning is imminent and far-reaching.
Overview
The oracle proclaims a near "day of Yahweh," a time of clouds and doom not only for Egypt but for the nations. This day expresses God's decisive intervention in history to judge the proud. Throughout Scripture the day of the Lord carries both terror for the wicked and ultimate hope of God's righteous reign, consummated in Christ's return.
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- Obad 1:15For the day of Yahweh is near all the nations! As you have done, it will be done to you. Your deeds will return upon your own head.
- Joel 2:1–2Blow the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy mountain! Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble, for the day of Yahweh comes, for it is close at hand:
- Ezek 7:7Your doom has come to you, inhabitant of the land! The time has come! The day is near, a day of tumult, and not of joyful shouting, on the mountains.
- Joel 1:15Alas for the day! For the day of Yahweh is at hand, and it will come as destruction from the Almighty.
- Zeph 1:14The great day of Yahweh is near. It is near, and hurries greatly, the voice of the day of Yahweh. The mighty man cries there bitterly.
- Ezek 30:18At Tehaphnehes also the day shall withdraw itself, when I shall break there the yokes of Egypt, and the pride of her power shall cease in her: as for her, a cloud shall cover her, and her daughters shall go into captivity.
- Ezek 34:12As a shepherd seeks out his flock in the day that he is among his sheep that are scattered abroad, so will I seek out my sheep; and I will deliver them out of all places where they have been scattered in the cloudy and dark day.
- Isa 24:21–23It shall happen in that day that Yahweh will punish the army of the high ones on high, and the kings of the earth on the earth.
- Ezek 7:12The time has come! The day draws near. Don’t let the buyer rejoice, nor the seller mourn; for wrath is on all its multitude.
- Zeph 1:7Be silent at the presence of the Lord Yahweh, for the day of Yahweh is at hand. For Yahweh has prepared a sacrifice. He has consecrated his guests.
- Ps 110:6He will judge among the nations. He will heap up dead bodies. He will crush the ruler of the whole earth.
- Ezek 32:7When I shall extinguish you, I will cover the heavens, and make its stars dark; I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon shall not give its light.
- Amos 5:16–20Therefore Yahweh, the God of Armies, the Lord, says: “Wailing will be in all the wide ways; and they will say in all the streets, ‘Alas! Alas!’ and they will call the farmer to mourning, and those who are skillful in lamentation to wailing.
- Zech 14:3–19Then Yahweh will go out and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle.
- Zeph 3:6–7I have cut off nations. Their battlements are desolate. I have made their streets waste, so that no one passes by. Their cities are destroyed, so that there is no man, so that there is no inhabitant.
- Ps 37:13The Lord will laugh at him, for he sees that his day is coming.
- Ps 149:7–9To execute vengeance on the nations, and punishments on the peoples;
- Isa 19:1The burden of Egypt: “Behold, Yahweh rides on a swift cloud, and comes to Egypt. The idols of Egypt will tremble at his presence; and the heart of Egypt will melt within it.
- Phil 4:5Let your gentleness be known to all men. The Lord is at hand.
- Jas 5:9Don’t grumble, brothers, against one another, so that you won’t be judged. Behold, the judge stands at the door.
- Isa 34:2–17For Yahweh is enraged against all the nations, and angry with all their armies. He has utterly destroyed them. He has given them over for slaughter.
- Ezek 7:19They will cast their silver in the streets, and their gold will be as an unclean thing. Their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of Yahweh’s wrath. They won’t satisfy their souls, neither fill their bellies; because it has been the stumbling block of their iniquity.
- Rev 19:13–21He is clothed in a garment sprinkled with blood. His name is called “The Word of God.”
- Exod 14:20It came between the camp of Egypt and the camp of Israel; and there was the cloud and the darkness, yet gave it light by night: and one didn’t come near the other all night.
- Exod 14:24In the morning watch, Yahweh looked out on the Egyptian army through the pillar of fire and of cloud, and confused the Egyptian army.
- Ezek 29:12I will make the land of Egypt a desolation in the middle of the countries that are desolate; and her cities among the cities that are laid waste shall be a desolation forty years; and I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and will disperse them through the countries.”
- Jer 25:15–29For Yahweh, the God of Israel, says to me: “take this cup of the wine of wrath at my hand, and cause all the nations, to whom I send you, to drink it.
- Rev 6:17for the great day of his wrath has come; and who is able to stand?”
- Joel 3:11–14Hurry and come, all you surrounding nations, and gather yourselves together.” Cause your mighty ones to come down there, Yahweh.
- Matt 24:33Even so you also, when you see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors.
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