This description of the judgment on the earth and its inhabitants seems to connect immediately with Isaiah 24:13.

17, 18a recur almost verbatim in Jeremiah 48:43 f. (cf. also Amos 5:19).

18b 20 describe the physical convulsions which accompany the day of Jehovah.

the windows from on high are opened] An allusion to the story of the Deluge (Genesis 7:11; Genesis 8:2). The rest of the imagery is based on the phenomena of the earthquake.

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