Alas for the day! for the Day of the Lord is at hand – The judgment of God, then, which they were to seek to avert, was still to co…

Alas. —The exclamation is repeated three times in the Septuagint and Vulgate, thus giving occasion to Jeremy Taylor’s comment: “Wh…

Now the Prophet begins to exhort the people to repentance. Having represented them as grievously afflicted by the hand of God, he now adds that a r…

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, …

The sorrow of the people is turned into repentance and humiliation before God. With all the marks of sorrow and shame, sin must be confe ed and lam…