Joel 1:15-16
Joel 1:15-18 The Message (MSG)
What a day! Doomsday! GOD’s Judgment Day has come. The Strong God has arrived. This is serious business! Food is just a memory at our tables, as are joy and singing from God’s Sanctuary. The seeds in the field are dead, barns deserted, Grain silos abandoned. Who needs them? The crops have failed! The farm animals groan—oh, how they groan! The cattle mill around. There’s nothing for them to eat. Not even the sheep find anything.
Joel 1:15-16 King James Version (KJV)
Alas for the day! for the day of the LORD is at hand, and as a destruction from the Almighty shall it come. Is not the meat cut off before our eyes, yea, joy and gladness from the house of our God?
Joel 1:15-16 New American Standard Bible - NASB 1995 (NASB1995)
Alas for the day! For the day of the LORD is near, And it will come as destruction from the Almighty. Has not food been cut off before our eyes, Gladness and joy from the house of our God?
Joel 1:15-16 New Century Version (NCV)
What a terrible day it will be! The LORD’s day of judging is near, when punishment will come like a destroying attack from the Almighty. Our food is taken away while we watch. Joy and happiness are gone from the Temple of our God.
Joel 1:15-16 American Standard Version (ASV)
Alas for the day! for the day of Jehovah is at hand, and as destruction from the Almighty shall it come. Is not the food cut off before our eyes, yea, joy and gladness from the house of our God?
Joel 1:15-16 New International Version (NIV)
Alas for that day! For the day of the LORD is near; it will come like destruction from the Almighty. Has not the food been cut off before our very eyes— joy and gladness from the house of our God?
Joel 1:15-16 New King James Version (NKJV)
Alas for the day! For the day of the LORD is at hand; It shall come as destruction from the Almighty. Is not the food cut off before our eyes, Joy and gladness from the house of our God?
Joel 1:15-16 Amplified Bible (AMP)
Alas for the day! For the [judgment] day of the LORD is at hand, And it will come [upon the nation] as a destruction from the Almighty. [Zeph 1:14-18] Has not the food been cut off before our eyes, Joy and gladness from the house of our God?
Joel 1:15-16 New Living Translation (NLT)
The day of the LORD is near, the day when destruction comes from the Almighty. How terrible that day will be! Our food disappears before our very eyes. No joyful celebrations are held in the house of our God.
Joel 1:15-16 The Passion Translation (TPT)
How awful that time will be! Look! The day of YAHWEH is certainly coming— the day when the Divine Destroyer brings destruction. Has not the food supply been cut off before our very eyes? Have not the joyful celebrations been silenced in the temple of our God?