14The great day of the LORD is near, it is near, and hasteth greatly, even the voice of the day of the LORD: the mighty man shall cry there bitterly.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD:
For the day is near, even the day of the LORD is near, a cloudy day; it shall be the time of the heathen.
Hold thy peace at the presence of the Lord GOD: for the day of the LORD is at hand: for the LORD hath prepared a sacrifice, he hath bid his guests.
Behold, their valiant ones shall cry without: the ambassadors of peace shall weep bitterly.
And the LORD shall utter his voice before his army: for his camp is very great: for he is strong that executeth his word: for the day of the LORD is great and very terrible; and who can abide it?
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 14-18)Nothing could be expressed with more spirit and life, nor in words more proper to startle and awaken a secure and careless people, than the warning here given to Judah and Jerusalem of the approaching destruction by the Chaldeans. That is enough to make the sinners in Zion tremble—that it is the day of the Lord , the day in which he will manifest himself by taking vengeance on them. It is the grea…
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