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Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

Joel 1:15

Verse 15. Alas for the day!] The Syriac repeats this, the Vulgate, Septuagint, and Arabic, thrice: "Alas, alas, alas, for the day!"

As a destruction from the Almighty] The destruction that is now coming is no ordinary calamity; it is as a signal judgment immediately inflicted by the Almighty.

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See also Joel 1:15 in other biblical comments:

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    ALAS FOR THE DAY! FOR THE DAY OF THE LORD IS AT HAND - The judgment of God, then, which they were to deprecate, was still to come. : “All times and all days are God’s. Yet they are said to be our days...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    ANALYSIS AND ANNOTATIONS I. THE PLAGUE OF LOCUSTS II. THE COMING DAY OF THE LORD: THE RUIN, THE REPENTANCE AND THE RESTORATION III. THE EVENTS OF THE DAY OF THE LORD: ISRAEL'S ENEMIES JUDGED AND TH...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    A CALL FOR A FAST AND SOLEMN INTERCESSION. The prophet bids the priests, clothed in the garb of mourners, come into the Temple and lament night and day. Let them institute with the appropriate ritual...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    THE DAY OF THE LORD. See note on Isaiah 2:12. This is the great subject of Joel's prophecy, already the. "at hand". DESTRUCTION FROM THE ALMIGHTY. Note the Figure of speech Paronomasia (App-6). Hebre...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The cessation of the daily sacrifices again occupies the prophet's thought; and he turns to the priests, bidding them not mourn only (Joel 1:9), but clothe themselves in sackcloth, and proclaim a day...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The prophet states more distinctly the ground for the exhortations of Joel 1:13. The present calamity is viewed by him as the harbinger of a far sorer calamity to come, even of the great "Day of Jehov...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Part I. Chap. Joel 1:2 to Joel 2:17 Description of the present calamity (ch. 1.). The terrible "Day of Jehovah," of which it is the harbinger (Joel 2:1-11), but which may yet be averted by the nation...

  • Charles Box Commentaries

    _THE DAY OF THE LORD -- JOEL 1:14-17:_ Joel encouraged the priest to call for a fast all across the land. It was time for the entire nation to repent. The Law of Moses did not require a regular fast....

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    THE DAY OF THE LORD IS AT HAND— See Jeremiah 46:10 and Ezekiel 30:3....

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    THE EXTENT. VIVID, ARRESTING (cont-'d) TEXT: Joel 1:13-20 13 Gird yourselves with sackcloth, and lament, ye priests; wail, ye ministers of the altar; come, lie all night in sackcloth, ye ministers...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    Alas for the day! for the day of the LORD is at hand, and as a destruction from the Almighty shall it come. THE DAY OF THE LORD IS AT HAND - (Joel 2:1; Joel 2:11) i:e., the day of His anger (Isaiah...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    1:15 Almighty (e-18) See Note, Isaiah 13:6 ....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    THE COMING OF THE LOCUSTS A HARBINGER OF THE DAY OF THE LORD After the title (Joel 1:1), the prophet announces an unheard of and long to be remembered ruin, wrought by locusts (Joel 1:2), and summons...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    THE DAY OF THE LORD] early in popular thought a time when Jehovah granted victory unto Israel (Amos 5:18), but in prophetic discourse a time of signal divine manifestation in judgment (as here in the...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    THE DAY OF THE LORD JOEL _ROY ROHU_ ABOUT THIS BOOK Joel tells us his father’s name, but he says nothing about himself. Some students think that he wrote his book about 850 years before the birth...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    ALAS. — The exclamation is repeated three times in the LXX. and Vulg., thus giving occasion to Jeremy Taylor’s comment: “When the prophet Joel was describing the formidable accidents in the day of the...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    אֲהָ֖הּ לַ † יֹּ֑ום כִּ֤י קָרֹוב֙ יֹ֣ום...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    THE LOCUSTS AND THE DAY OF THE LORD Joel 1:2; Joel 2:1 JOEL, as we have seen, found the motive of his prophecy in a recent plague of locusts, the appearance of which and the havoc they worked are des...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    A SUMMONS TO PENITENCE Joel 1:1-20; Joel 2:1-11 We know nothing of Joel beyond this book. He was content to be God's mouthpiece and remain unknown. His message was one of unparalleled woe. The memory...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    Joel was especially a prophet to Judah. The burden of his message was the Day of the Lord. It seems to be one remarkable utterance rather than notes of a ministry covering a long period. A terrible lo...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    Alas for the day! for the (i) day of the LORD [is] at hand, and as a destruction from the Almighty shall it come. (i) We see by these great plagues that utter destruction is at hand....

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Day. Hebrew ahah layom: (Haydock) "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, (S...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    The preceding verses having described the ruin of all flesh by reason of sin, here comes the judgment. The Prophet unable to enter into the particulars of the dreadful day of account, only cries out u...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    Lectures on the Minor Prophets. W. Kelly. "The word of Jehovah that came to Joel the son of Pethuel." Like Hosea, Joel is one of the earliest prophets (being earlier even than Jonah), but differs ess...

  • James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

    _A DAY OF JUDGMENT_ ‘The day of the Lord is at hand.’ Joel 1:15 In the first two Chapter s Joel foretells, under the figure of an army, a most terrible plague of locusts. The palmer-worm, locust, c...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    It now follows, _Alas the day! for nigh is the day of Jehovah. _Here the Prophet, as it was at first stated, threatens something worse in future than what they had experienced. He has hitherto been sh...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    The Spirit of God takes the opportunity afforded by an unparalleled scarcity, caused by the invasion of innumerable armies of insects, to rouse the attention of the people with respect to the day of J...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    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, caterpillars, c. which were a presage and emblem of greater ones, even of...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Alas for the day! for the day of the LORD [is] at hand, and as a destruction from the Almighty shall it come. Ver. 15. _Alas, for the day, &c._] Gr. Alas, Alas, Alas; the Vulgate Latin A, A, A, which...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Alas for the day!_ Wo to us! The time in which God will inflict on us the punishments we have long deserved is now near; and if they be not averted by our repentance, they will fall upon us in an irr...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Alas for the day! so the prophet himself laments, FOR THE DAY OF THE LORD, the time of His stern visitation, IS AT HAND, AND AS A DESTRUCTION FROM THE ALMIGHTY SHALL IT COME, bringing its desolating s...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    PRESCRIBING FASTING AND PENITENCE...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    14-20 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 bewailed. A day is to be appointed for this purp...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    This verse and the three next may be looked upon either as a particular declaration of the grounds of this fast, or as a direction how to manage the fast, a suggesting to the people what they should s...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Joel 1:15 Alas H162 day H3117 day H3117 LORD H3068 hand H7138 come H935 (H8799) destruction H7701 Almighty...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    A DESCRIPTION OF THE PLAGUE AND ITS CONSEQUENCES (JOEL 1:6). The effects of the huge plagues of locusts which had arrived to devastate the land are graphically described, and the consequences in the d...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Joel's warnings of desolation upon Israel, and call to repentance. The plague of insects. CHARACTERS: God, Joel. CONCLUSION: Those who will not be aroused out of their security by the Word...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Joel 1:1. _Joel, the son of Pethuel._ Nothing can be gathered from antiquity of this prophet, but what appears from his writings. His father was either a prophet or a man of note, as may be presumed f...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Alas for the day! for the day of the Lord is at hand, and as a destruction from the Almighty shall it come._ THE DAY OF THE LORD The prophet intimates that the destruction caused by the flight of th...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    JOEL—NOTE ON JOEL 1:1 The Judgment against Judah and the Day of the Lord. This first part of Joel introduces the Lord’s judgment in the form of a locust infestation, drought, and the coming of a great...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    JOEL—NOTE ON JOEL 1:15 THE DAY OF THE LORD is a major theme in Joel. It can refer to a particular act of judgment, like the devastation of the locusts, or it can refer to the future final judgment. “T...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL NOTES.] JOEL 1:15. THE DAY] of anger (Isaiah 13:9) and ill omen; evil in itself, and foreshadowing greater evils; a transition from invading locusts to the day of judgment upon all ungodly me...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION JOEL 1:1 THE WORD OF THE LORD THAT CAME TO JOEL THE SON OF PETHUEL. The name Joel signifies "Jehovah is God," or "whose God is Jehovah." We read in Scripture of several of the same name, b...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Shall we turn in our Bibles to the book of Joel. Joel is a prophet of which we have no light of his background except what he gives to us. He is the son of Pethuel, but who Pethuel is, we don't know....

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Amos 5:16; Ezekiel 12:22; Ezekiel 7:2; Isaiah 13:6; James 5:9;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    The day of the Lord — A day of greater trouble than yet they felt, troubles which God will heap upon them. Shall it come — Unless fasting, prayers and amendment prevent....

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