OLD TESTAMENT

Joel 1:15

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15

Alas for the day! For the day of the LORD is at hand, and it will come as destruction from the Almighty.

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Verse 15. Day. Hebrew ahah layom: ( Bible.) “Ah, what a day!”—Mighty. Septuagint “destruction.” They have read in a different manner. God is about to give sentence, ( Calmet.) and to send Nabuchodonosor, (Saint Jerome) or to destroy by famine. verse 17.

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