Joel 1:15 Cross References - BBE

¹⁵ Sorrow for the day! for the day of the Lord is near, and as destruction from the Ruler of all it will come.

¹³ He will be laughed at by the Lord, who sees that his day is coming.

⁶ Send out a cry of grief; for the day of the Lord is near; it comes as destruction from the Most High. ⁷ For this cause all hands will be feeble, and every heart of man be turned to water; ⁸ Their hearts will be full of fear; pains and sorrows will overcome them; they will be in pain like a woman in childbirth; they will be shocked at one another; their faces will be like flames. ⁹ See, the day of the Lord is coming, cruel, with wrath and burning passion: to make the land a waste, driving the sinners in it to destruction.

⁷ Ha! for that day is so great that there is no day like it: it is the time of Jacob's trouble: but he will get salvation from it.

² And you, son of man, say, This is what the Lord has said to the land of Israel: An end has come, the end has come on the four quarters of the land. ³ Now the end has come on you, and I will send my wrath on you, judging you for your ways, I will send punishment on you for all your disgusting acts. ⁴ My eye will not have mercy on you, and I will have no pity: but I will send the punishment of your ways on you, and your disgusting works will be among you: and you will be certain that I am the Lord. ⁵ This is what the Lord has said: An evil, even one evil; see, it is coming. ⁶ An end has come, the end has come; see, it is coming on you. ⁷ The crowning time has come on you, O people of the land: the time has come, the day is near; the day will not be slow in coming, it will not keep back. ⁸ Now, in a little time, I will let loose my passion on you, and give full effect to my wrath against you, judging you for your ways, and sending punishment on you for all your disgusting works. ⁹ My eye will not have mercy, and I will have no pity: I will send on you the punishment of your ways, and your disgusting works will be among you; and you will see that I am the Lord who gives punishment. ¹⁰ See, the day; see, it is coming: the crowning time has gone out; the twisted way is flowering, pride has put out buds. ¹¹ Violent behaviour has been lifted up into a rod of evil; it will not be slow in coming, it will not keep back. ¹² The time has come, the day is near: let not him who gives a price for goods be glad, or him who gets the price have sorrow:

²² Son of man, what is this saying which you have about the land of Israel, The time is long and every vision comes to nothing? ²³ For this cause say to them, This is what the Lord has said: I have made this saying come to an end, and it will no longer be used as a common saying in Israel; but say to them, The days are near, and the effect of every vision. ²⁴ For there will be no more false visions or smooth use of secret arts in Israel. ²⁵ For I am the Lord; I will say the word and what I say I will do; it will not be put off: for in your days, O uncontrolled people, I will say the word and do it, says the Lord. ²⁶ Again the word of the Lord came to me, saying, ²⁷ Son of man, see, the children of Israel say, The vision which he sees is for the days which are a long way off, and his words are of times still far away. ²⁸ Say to them then, This is what the Lord has said: Not one of my words will be put off any longer, but what I say I will do, says the Lord.

¹ Let the horn be sounded in Zion, and a war-cry in my holy mountain; let all the people of the land be troubled: for the day of the Lord is coming; ² For a day of dark and deep shade is near, a day of cloud and black night: like a black cloud a great and strong people is covering the mountains; there has never been any like them and will not be after them again, from generation to generation.

¹¹ And the Lord is thundering before his forces; for very great is his army; for he is strong who gives effect to his word: for the day of the Lord is great and greatly to be feared, and who has strength against it?

³¹ The sun will be made dark and the moon turned to blood, before the great day of the Lord comes, a day to be feared.

¹⁶ So these are the words of the Lord, the God of armies, the Lord: There will be weeping in all the open spaces; and in all the streets they will say, Sorrow! sorrow! and they will get in the farmer to the weeping, and the makers of sad songs to give cries of grief. ¹⁷ In all the vine-gardens there will be cries of grief: for I will go through among you, says the Lord. ¹⁸ Sorrow to you who are looking for the day of the Lord! what is the day of the Lord to you? it is dark and not light.

¹⁴ The great day of the Lord is near, it is near and coming very quickly; the bitter day of the Lord is near, coming on more quickly than a man of war. ¹⁵ That day is a day of wrath, a day of trouble and sorrow, a day of wasting and destruction, a day of dark night and deep shade, a day of cloud and thick dark. ¹⁶ A day of sounding the horn and the war-cry against the walled towns and the high towers. ¹⁷ And I will send trouble on men so that they will go about like the blind, because they have done evil against the Lord: and their blood will be drained out like dust, and their strength like waste. ¹⁸ Even their silver and their gold will not be able to keep them safe in the day of the Lord's wrath; but all the land will be burned up in the fire of his bitter wrath: for he will put an end, even suddenly, to all who are living in the land.

⁴¹ And when he got near and saw the town, he was overcome with weeping for it, ⁴² Saying, If you, even you, had knowledge today, of the things which give peace! but you are not able to see them. ⁴³ For the time will come when your attackers will put a wall round you, and come all round you and keep you in on every side, ⁴⁴ And will make you level with the earth, and your children with you; and there will not be one stone resting on another in you, because you did not see that it was your day of mercy.

⁹ Say no hard things against one another, brothers, so that you will not be judged; see, the judge is waiting at the doors.

¹⁷ For the great day of their wrath is come, and who may keep his place?