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Joel 1:15

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15 ¡Ay de ese día! Porque está cerca el día del SEÑOR, y vendrá como destrucción del Todopoderoso [a] .

Joel 1:15 Meaning and Commentary

Joel 1:15

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 which were a presage and emblem of greater ones, even of the total destruction of their city, temple, and nation, either by the Chaldeans, or by the Romans, or both: and as a destruction from the Almighty shall it come;
unawares, suddenly, and irresistibly: there is in the Hebrew text an elegant play on words, which may be rendered, as "wasting from the waster", or "destruction from the destroyer, shall it come" F24; even from the almighty God, who is able to save and destroy, and none can deliver out of his hands; see ( Isaiah 13:6 ) ; the word signifies one powerful and victorious, as Aben Ezra observes; and so it does in the Arabic language.


FOOTNOTES:

F24 (ydvm dvk) "uti vastitas a Deo vastatore", Drusius.
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Joel 1:15 In-Context

13 Ceñíos de cilicio, y lamentaos, sacerdotes; gemid, ministros del altar. Venid, pasad la noche ceñidos de cilicio, ministros de mi Dios, porque sin ofrenda de cereal y sin libación ha quedado la casa de vuestro Dios.
14 Promulgad ayuno, convocad asamblea; congregad a los ancianos y a todos los habitantes de la tierra en la casa del SEÑOR vuestro Dios, y clamad al SEÑOR.
15 ¡Ay de ese día! Porque está cerca el día del SEÑOR, y vendrá como destrucción del Todopoderoso .
16 ¿No ha sido suprimido el alimento de delante de nuestros ojos, y la alegría y el regocijo de la casa de nuestro Dios?
17 Las semillas se han secado bajo los terrones; los almacenes han sido asolados, los graneros derribados porque se secó el grano.

Footnotes 1

  • [a] Heb., Shaddai
Scripture taken from La Biblia de las Américas® (LBLA®), Copyright © 1986, 1995, 1997 by The Lockman Foundation. Used by permission. https://www.LBLA.com

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