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Alas for the day! For the day of Yahweh is at hand, And it will come as destruction from the Almighty.
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A Day of Divine Judgment
Commentators explain that "the day of the Lord" is not just any difficult time. It is a specific, imminent event when God actively intervenes to execute judgment. While God is always sovereign, this "day" is when He makes His role as the world's Judge unmistakably clear, moving from a season of patience to one of active, just punishment for sin.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
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…
19th Century
Anglican
Alas. —The exclamation is repeated three times in the Septuagint and Vulgate, thus giving occasion to Jeremy Taylor’s comment: “Wh…
16th Century
Protestant
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…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
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 confessed and la…
