Wail, for the day of Adonai is near! it will come as destruction from Shaddai.
Amos 5:18 - Tree of Life Version Oy to you—longing for the Day of Adonai! What would it be for you? The Day of Adonai will be darkness and not light. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Woe unto you that desire the day of the LORD! to what end is it for you? the day of the LORD is darkness, and not light. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Woe to you who desire the day of the Lord! Why would you want the day of the Lord? It is darkness and not light; American Standard Version (1901) Woe unto you that desire the day of Jehovah! Wherefore would ye have the day of Jehovah? It is darkness, and not light. Common English Bible Doom to those who desire the day of the LORD! Why do you want the day of the LORD? It is darkness, not light; Catholic Public Domain Version Woe to those who desire the day of the Lord. What is it to you? The day of the Lord is this: darkness and not light. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Woe to them that desire the day of the Lord: to what end is it for you? the day of the Lord is darkness, and not light. |
Wail, for the day of Adonai is near! it will come as destruction from Shaddai.
And it shall come to pass: whoever flees from the sound of panic will fall in the pit, and whoever climbs up out of the pit will be caught in the trap. For the windows of heaven are opened and the foundations of the earth shake.
They say: “Let Him hurry up and hasten His work, so we may see it! Let the plan of the Holy One of Israel draw near and come, so we may know it!”
They will roar against them like the roaring of the sea. If one looks to the land, behold, darkness and distress! The light is darkened by the clouds.
Yet they seek Me day to day and delight to know My ways, as if they were a nation that did right, and had not forsaken their God’s decree. They ask Me for righteous judgments; they delight in the nearness of God.”
or look to the earth, behold, distress and darkness, the gloom of anguish, and they will be driven into darkness.
One grabs with the right hand but is hungry, and eats with the left hand but is not satisfied. Everyone will eat the flesh of his own arm—
Give glory to Adonai your God, before it grows dark, and before your feet stumble on mountains at dusk. When you look for light, He turns it into the shadow of death, and turns it into deep darkness.
Look, they are saying to me, “Where is the word of Adonai? Let it come now!”
Oy ! For that day is monumental. There will be none like it— a time of trouble for Jacob! Yet out of it he will be saved.
“Son of man, what is that proverb you people have in the land of Israel saying, ‘The days are prolonged and every vision fails?’
“Son of man, behold, the house of Israel says, ‘The vision that he sees is for many days from now. He prophesies about times that are far off.’
Ah, the day! The day of Adonai is near! As havoc from Shaddai it will come.
Before them land quakes, heaven trembles, sun and moon become dark, stars withdraw their brightness.
Adonai utters His voice before His army. For His camp is very vast—for mighty is it that carries out His word. For great is the day of Adonai— very terrifying! Who can endure it?
“For the day of Adonai is near against all the nations. As you have done, it shall be done to you. Your dealing will return on your own head.
Wasted by famine, ravaged by plague and pestilence so bitter, fangs of beasts I’ll let loose on them, with venom of creepers in the dust.
But the day of the Lord will come like a thief. On that day the heavens will pass away with a roar, and the elements will melt and disintegrate, and the earth and everything done on it shall be exposed.
and saying, “Where is this promise of His coming? Ever since the fathers died, everything goes on just as it has from the beginning of creation.”