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


In Context

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

13 Put on sackcloth and mourn, you priests! Wail, you ministers of the altar. Come, lie all night in sackcloth, you ministers of my God, for the meal offering and the drink offering are withheld from your God's house.

14 Sanctify a fast. Call a solemn assembly. Gather the elders, and all the inhabitants of the land, to the house of Yahweh, your God, and cry to Yahweh.

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

16 Isn't the food cut off before our eyes; joy and gladness from the house of our God?

17 The seeds rot under their clods. The granaries are laid desolate. The barns are broken down, for the grain has 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 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.

The American 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.