15Alas for the day! for the day of the LORD is at hand, and as a destruction from the Almighty shall it come.


In Context

12 The vine is dried up, and the fig tree languishes; the pomegranate tree, the palm tree also, and the apple tree, even all the trees of the field, are withered: because joy is withered away from the sons of men.

13 Gird yourselves, and lament, you priests: howl, you ministers of the altar: come, lie all night in sackcloth, you ministers of my God: for the meat offering and the drink offering is withheld from the house of your God.

14 Sanctify you a fast, call a solemn assembly, gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the land into the house of the LORD your God, and cry to the LORD,

15 Alas for the day! for the day of the LORD is at hand, and as a destruction from the Almighty shall it come.

16 Is not the meat cut off before our eyes, yes, joy and gladness from the house of our God?

17 The seed is rotten under their clods, the garners are laid desolate, the barns are broken down; for the corn is withered.

Joel 1:15 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

1:15Alas for the day! for the day of the LORD [is] at hand, and as a destruction from the Almighty shall it come.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

1:15Alas for that day! For the day of the Lord is near; it will come like destruction from the Almighty.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

1:15Ah, ah, ah, for the day: because the day of the Lord is at hand, and it shall come like destruction from the mighty.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

1:15Alas for the day! for the day of Jehovah is at hand, and as destruction from the Almighty shall it come.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

1:15Alas for the day! for the day of Jehovah is at hand, and as destruction from the Almighty shall it come.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

1:15Alas for the day! for the day of the LORD is at hand, and as destruction from the Almighty shall it come,

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

1:15Alas for the day! for the day of the LORD is at hand, and as a destruction from the Almighty shall it come.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

1:15Alas for the day! For the day of Yahweh is at hand, and it will come as destruction from the Almighty.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

1:15And cry unto Jehovah, 'Alas for the day! For near is a day of Jehovah, And as destruction from the mighty it cometh.