Joel 1:15

Amos 5:16-18; Ezekiel 12:22-28; Ezekiel 7:2-12; Isaiah 13:6-9; James 5:9; Jeremiah 30:7; Joel 2:1; Joel 2:2; Luke 19:41-44; Psalms 37:13; Revelation 6:17; Zephaniah 1:14-18

Related Commentaries of Joel 1:15

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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 a...
Arno Geneva Study Bible

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...
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...
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 ALMIGH...
Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

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 futu...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Alas for the day! for the day of the LORD is at hand, and as a destruction from the Almighty shall it come. Alas for the day! - The Syriac repeats...
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

The day of the Lord is at hand— See Jeremiah 46:10 and Ezekiel 30:3 .
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 -...
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 reme...
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 s...
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...
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

THE LOCUSTS AND THE DAY OF THE LORD Joel 1:2-20 ; Joel 2:1-17 JOEL, as we have seen, found the motive of his prophecy in a recent plague of lo...
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 un...
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...
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 particula...
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...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire 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. whi...
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....
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...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Threatenings of Judgment; A Proclamation for a Fast. B. C. 720....
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy 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...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

A Description of the Plague And Its Consequences ( Joel 1:6-18 ). The effects of the huge plagues of locusts which had arrived to devastate the la...
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 fro...
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 ei...
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 int...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

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...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Prescribing Fasting and Penitence
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

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...
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...

¹⁵ Alas for the day! for the day of the LORD is at hand, and as a destruction from the Almighty shall it come.

Related Commentaries of Joel 1:15

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Joel 1:15