Alas for the day! for the day of the LORD is at hand, and as a destruction from the Almighty shall it come.
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Gill's Exposition
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…
Barnes' Notes
Alas for the day! for the Day of the Lord is at hand - The judgment of God, then, which they were to deprecate, was still to come. : “All times and all days are God’s. Yet they are said to be our…
We have observed abundance of tears shed for the destruction of the fruits of the earth by the locusts; now here we have those tears turned into the right channel, that of repentance and humiliation…
Cambridge Bible
The prophet states more distinctly the ground for the exhortations of Joe 1:13-14. The present calamity is viewed by him as the harbinger of a far sorer calamity to come, even of the great "Day of…
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