Joel 2:11

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And the Lord is thundering before his forces; for very great is his army; for he is strong who gives effect to his word: for the day of the Lord is great and greatly to be feared, and who has strength against it?

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  • Mal 3:2 : 2 But by whom may the day of his coming be faced? and who may keep his place when he is seen? for he is like the metal-tester's fire and the cleaner's soap.
  • Rev 18:8 : 8 For this reason in one day will her troubles come, death and sorrow and need of food; and she will be completely burned with fire; for strong is the Lord God who is her judge.
  • Rev 6:17 : 17 For the great day of their wrath is come, and who may keep his place?
  • Joel 3:16 : 16 Come quickly, all you nations round about, and get yourselves together there: make your strong ones come down, O Lord.
  • Isa 13:4 : 4 The noise of great numbers in the mountains, like the noise of a strong people! The noise of the kingdoms of the nations meeting together! The Lord of armies is numbering his forces for war.
  • Joel 1:15 : 15 Sorrow for the day! for the day of the Lord is near, and as destruction from the Ruler of all it will come.
  • Num 24:23 : 23 Then he went on with his story and said, But who may keep his life when God does this?
  • Ps 46:6 : 6 The nations were angry, the kingdoms were moved; at the sound of his voice the earth became like wax.
  • Jer 25:30 : 30 So, as a prophet, give out these words among them, and say to them, The voice of the Lord will be sounding like a lion from on high; he will send out his voice from his holy place, like the loud voice of a lion, against his flock; he will give a cry, like those who are crushing the grapes, against all the people of the earth.
  • Jer 30:7 : 7 Ha! for that day is so great that there is no day like it: it is the time of Jacob's trouble: but he will get salvation from it.
  • Jer 50:34 : 34 Their saviour is strong; the Lord of armies is his name: he will certainly take up their cause, so that he may give rest to the earth and trouble to the people of Babylon.
  • Nah 1:6 : 6 Who may keep his place before his wrath? and who may undergo the heat of his passion? his wrath is let loose like fire and the rocks are broken open by him.
  • Zeph 1:14-15 : 14 The great day of the Lord is near, it is near and coming very quickly; the bitter day of the Lord is near, coming on more quickly than a man of war. 15 That day is a day of wrath, a day of trouble and sorrow, a day of wasting and destruction, a day of dark night and deep shade, a day of cloud and thick dark.
  • Ezek 22:14 : 14 Will your heart be high or your hands strong in the days when I take you in hand? I the Lord have said it and will do it.
  • Isa 7:18 : 18 And it will be in that day that the Lord will make a piping sound for the fly which is in the end of the rivers of Egypt, and for the bee which is in the land of Assyria.
  • 2 Sam 22:14-15 : 14 The Lord made thunder in the heavens, and the voice of the Highest was sounding out. 15 And he sent out his arrows, driving them in all directions; by his flames of fire they were troubled.
  • Joel 2:25 : 25 I will give back to you the years which were food for the locust, the plant-worm, the field-fly, and the worm, my great army which I sent among you.
  • Isa 42:13 : 13 The Lord will go out as a man of war, he will be moved to wrath like a fighting-man: his voice will be strong, he will give a loud cry; he will go against his attackers like a man of war.
  • Amos 1:2 : 2 And he said, The Lord will give a lion's cry from Zion, his voice will be sounding from Jerusalem; and the fields of the keepers of sheep will become dry, and the top of Carmel will be wasted away.
  • Amos 5:18 : 18 Sorrow to you who are looking for the day of the Lord! what is the day of the Lord to you? it is dark and not light.
  • Amos 5:20 : 20 Will not the day of the Lord be dark and not light? even very dark, with no light shining in it?

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    1 Let the horn be sounded in Zion, and a war-cry in my holy mountain; let all the people of the land be troubled: for the day of the Lord is coming;

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    3 Before them fire sends destruction, and after them flame is burning: the land is like the garden of Eden before them, and after them an unpeopled waste; truly, nothing has been kept safe from them.

  • Isa 13:4-6
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  • Isa 30:30
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    30 And the Lord will send out the sound of his great voice, and they will see his arm stretched out, with the heat of his wrath, and the flame of a burning fire; with a cloud-burst, and storm, and a rain of ice.

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    15 Sorrow for the day! for the day of the Lord is near, and as destruction from the Ruler of all it will come.

  • Joel 3:14
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    14 Give this out among the nations; make ready for war: get the strong men awake; let all the men of war come near, let them come up.

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    16 Hearing it, my inner parts were moved, and my lips were shaking at the sound; my bones became feeble, and my steps were uncertain under me: I gave sounds of grief in the day of trouble, when his forces came up against the people in bands.

  • Rev 6:17
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    17 For the great day of their wrath is come, and who may keep his place?

  • Nah 1:5-6
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    5 The mountains are shaking because of him, and the hills flowing away; the earth is falling to bits before him, the world and all who are in it.

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    16 Come quickly, all you nations round about, and get yourselves together there: make your strong ones come down, O Lord.

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    13 The Lord will go out as a man of war, he will be moved to wrath like a fighting-man: his voice will be strong, he will give a loud cry; he will go against his attackers like a man of war.

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    2 Before the Lord sends you violently away in flight like the waste from the grain; before the burning wrath of the Lord comes on you, before the day of the Lord's wrath comes on you.

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