Behold, a day of the LORD is coming when your plunder will be divided in your presence.
Parallel translations
- WEB Behold, a day of Yahweh comes, when your plunder will be divided within you.
- KJV Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, and thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee.
- 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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Quick answer
A coming 'day of Yahweh' is announced in which Jerusalem's plundered spoil will be divided in her very midst. It matters because it opens the climactic prophecy of God's decisive intervention in history.
Overview
The final chapter begins with the ominous announcement of a day belonging to the LORD, when the city is so overrun that the enemy divides plunder within her walls. This 'day of Yahweh' is a time of both judgment and ultimate deliverance. It sets the stage for God's personal intervention that transforms apparent defeat into final victory, a pattern fulfilled in the consummation of Christ's kingdom.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 9
- Isa 13:9Behold, the Day of the LORD is coming—cruel, with fury and burning anger—to make the earth a desolation and to destroy the sinners within it.
- Rev 16:14These are demonic spirits that perform signs and go out to all the kings of the earth, to assemble them for battle on the great day of God the Almighty.
- Isa 2:12For the Day of the LORD of Hosts will come against all the proud and lofty, against all that is exalted—it will be humbled—
- Acts 2:20The sun will be turned to darkness, and the moon to blood, before the coming of the great and glorious Day of the Lord.
- Isa 13:6Wail, for the Day of the LORD is near; it will come as destruction from the Almighty.
- Mal 4:1“For behold, the day is coming, burning like a furnace, when all the arrogant and every evildoer will be stubble; the day is coming when I will set them ablaze,” says the LORD of Hosts. “Not a root or branch will be left to them.”
- Joel 3:14Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision! For the Day of the LORD is near in the valley of decision.
- Joel 2:31The sun will be turned to darkness and the moon to blood before the coming of the great and awesome Day of the LORD.
- Mal 4:5Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and awesome Day of the LORD.
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