Behold, a day of Yahweh comes, when your plunder will be divided within you.
Parallel translations
- KJV Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, and thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee.
- BSB Behold, a day of the LORD is coming when your plunder will be divided in your presence.
- NKJV Behold, the day of the Lord is coming, And your spoil will be divided in your midst.
- NASB Behold, a day is coming for the Lord when the spoils taken from you will be divided among you.
- NLT Watch, for the day of the Lord is coming when your possessions will be plundered right in front of you!
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- Isa 13:9Behold, the day of Yahweh comes, cruel, with wrath and fierce anger; to make the land a desolation, and to destroy its sinners out of it.
- Rev 16:14for they are spirits of demons, performing signs; which go out to the kings of the whole inhabited earth, to gather them together for the war of that great day of God, the Almighty.
- Isa 2:12For there will be a day of Yahweh of Armies for all that is proud and haughty, and for all that is lifted up; and it shall be brought low:
- Acts 2:20The sun will be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and glorious day of the Lord comes.
- Isa 13:6Wail; for the day of Yahweh is at hand! It will come as destruction from the Almighty.
- Mal 4:1“For, behold, the day comes, it burns as a furnace; and all the proud, and all who work wickedness, will be stubble; and the day that comes will burn them up,” says Yahweh of Armies, “that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.
- Joel 3:14Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision! For the day of Yahweh is near, in the valley of decision.
- Joel 2:31The sun will be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and terrible day of Yahweh comes.
- Mal 4:5Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the great and terrible day of Yahweh comes.
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