Zephaniah 1:14

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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.

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  • Joel 2:11 : 11 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?
  • Zeph 1:7 : 7 Let there be no sound before the Lord God: for the day of the Lord is near: for the Lord has made ready an offering, he has made his guests holy.
  • Ezek 7:12 : 12 The time has come, the day is near: let not him who gives a price for goods be glad, or him who gets the price have sorrow:
  • 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.
  • Isa 33:7 : 7 See, the men of war are sorrowing outside the town: those who came looking for peace are weeping bitterly.
  • Mal 4:5 : 5 See, I am sending you Elijah the prophet before the day of the Lord comes, that great day, greatly to be feared.
  • Ezek 30:3 : 3 For the day is near, the day of the Lord is near, a day of cloud; it will be the time of the nations.
  • 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.
  • Joel 2:1 : 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;
  • Joel 3:16 : 16 Come quickly, all you nations round about, and get yourselves together there: make your strong ones come down, O Lord.
  • Amos 8:2 : 2 And he said, Amos, what do you see? And I said, A basket of summer fruit. Then the Lord said to me, The end has come to my people Israel; never again will my eyes be shut to their sin.
  • Zeph 1:10 : 10 And in that day, says the Lord, there will be the sound of a cry from the fish doorway, and an outcry from the new town, and a great thundering from the hills, and cries of grief from the people of the Hollow;
  • Acts 2:20 : 20 The sun will become dark and the moon will be turned to blood, before that great day of the Lord comes in glory:
  • Phil 4:5 : 5 Let your gentle behaviour be clear to all men. The Lord is near.
  • 1 Thess 4:16 : 16 Because the Lord himself will come down from heaven with a word of authority, with the voice of the chief angel, with the sound of a horn: and the dead in Christ will come to life first;
  • Heb 12:26 : 26 Whose voice was the cause of the shaking of the earth; but now he has made an oath, saying, There will be still one more shaking, not only of the earth, but of heaven.
  • Jas 5:9 : 9 Say no hard things against one another, brothers, so that you will not be judged; see, the judge is waiting at the doors.
  • 2 Pet 2:3 : 3 And in their desire for profit they will come to you with words of deceit, like traders doing business in souls: whose punishment has been ready for a long time and their destruction is watching for them.
  • Rev 6:15-17 : 15 And the kings of the earth, and the rulers, and the chief captains, and the men of wealth, and the strong, and every servant and free man, took cover in the holes and the rocks of the mountains; 16 And they say to the mountains and to the rocks, Come down on us, covering us from the face of him who is seated on the high seat, and from the wrath of the Lamb: 17 For the great day of their wrath is come, and who may keep his place?
  • Isa 66:6 : 6 There is a noise of war from the town, a sound from the Temple, the voice of the Lord giving punishment to his haters.
  • Jer 25:36 : 36 A sound of the cry of the keepers of sheep, and the bitter crying of the chiefs of the flock! for the Lord has made waste their green fields.
  • Isa 15:4 : 4 Heshbon is crying out, and Elealeh; their voice is sounding even to Jahaz: for this cause the heart of Moab is shaking; his soul is shaking with fear.
  • Isa 22:4-5 : 4 For this cause I have said, Let your eyes be turned away from me in my bitter weeping; I will not be comforted for the wasting of the daughter of my people. 5 For it is a day of trouble and of crushing down and of destruction from the Lord, the Lord of armies, in the valley of vision; ...
  • Jer 48:41 : 41 Kerioth is taken, and the strong places have been forced, and the hearts of Moab's men of war in that day will be like the heart of a woman in birth-pains.
  • Ezek 7:6-7 : 6 An end has come, the end has come; see, it is coming on you. 7 The crowning time has come on you, O people of the land: the time has come, the day is near; the day will not be slow in coming, it will not keep back.
  • Ezek 12:23 : 23 For this cause say to them, This is what the Lord has said: I have made this saying come to an end, and it will no longer be used as a common saying in Israel; but say to them, The days are near, and the effect of every vision.

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  • Zeph 1:15-18
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    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.

    16 A day of sounding the horn and the war-cry against the walled towns and the high towers.

    17 And I will send trouble on men so that they will go about like the blind, because they have done evil against the Lord: and their blood will be drained out like dust, and their strength like waste.

    18 Even their silver and their gold will not be able to keep them safe in the day of the Lord's wrath; but all the land will be burned up in the fire of his bitter wrath: for he will put an end, even suddenly, to all who are living in the land.

  • Joel 1:14-16
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    14 Let a time be fixed for going without food, have a holy meeting, let the old men, even all the people of the land, come together to the house of the Lord your God, crying out to the Lord.

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

    16 Is not food cut off before our eyes? joy and delight from the house of our God?

  • Isa 13:4-6
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    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.

    5 They come from a far country, from the farthest part of heaven, even the Lord and the instruments of his wrath, with destruction for all the land.

    6 Send out a cry of grief; for the day of the Lord is near; it comes as destruction from the Most High.

  • Joel 2:1-2
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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;

    2 For a day of dark and deep shade is near, a day of cloud and black night: like a black cloud a great and strong people is covering the mountains; there has never been any like them and will not be after them again, from generation to generation.

  • Isa 13:8-9
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    8 Their hearts will be full of fear; pains and sorrows will overcome them; they will be in pain like a woman in childbirth; they will be shocked at one another; their faces will be like flames.

    9 See, the day of the Lord is coming, cruel, with wrath and burning passion: to make the land a waste, driving the sinners in it to destruction.

  • Ezek 30:2-3
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    2 Son of man, be a prophet, and say, These are the words of the Lord: Give a cry, Aha, for the day!

    3 For the day is near, the day of the Lord is near, a day of cloud; it will be the time of the nations.

  • Joel 3:13-16
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    13 I will give your sons and your daughters into the hands of the children of Judah for a price, and they will give them for a price to the men of Sheba, a nation far off: for the Lord has said it.

    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.

    15 Get your plough-blades hammered into swords, and your vine-knives into spears: let the feeble say, I am strong.

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

  • Amos 5:16-18
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    16 So these are the words of the Lord, the God of armies, the Lord: There will be weeping in all the open spaces; and in all the streets they will say, Sorrow! sorrow! and they will get in the farmer to the weeping, and the makers of sad songs to give cries of grief.

    17 In all the vine-gardens there will be cries of grief: for I will go through among you, says the Lord.

    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.

  • Joel 2:10-11
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    10 The earth is troubled before them and the heavens are shaking: the sun and the moon have become dark, and the stars keep back their shining:

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    7 The crowning time has come on you, O people of the land: the time has come, the day is near; the day will not be slow in coming, it will not keep back.

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    1 See, a day of the Lord is coming when they will make division of your goods taken by force before your eyes.

  • Zeph 1:9-10
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    9 And in that day I will send punishment on all those who come jumping over the doorstep and make their master's house full of violent behaviour and deceit.

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    30 And his voice will be loud over him in that day like the sounding of the sea: and if a man's eyes are turned to the earth, it is all dark and full of trouble; and the light is made dark by thick clouds.

  • Mal 4:1
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    1 For see, the day is coming, it is burning like an oven; all the men of pride and all who do evil will be dry stems of grass: and in the day which is coming they will be burned up, says the Lord of armies, till they have not a root or a branch.

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    15 For the day of the Lord is coming quickly on all nations: as you have done it will be done to you; the reward of your acts will come on your head.

  • Isa 22:5
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    5 For it is a day of trouble and of crushing down and of destruction from the Lord, the Lord of armies, in the valley of vision; ...

  • Jer 4:8
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    8 For this put on haircloth, with weeping and loud crying: for the burning wrath of the Lord is not turned back from us.

  • Zeph 1:7
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    7 Let there be no sound before the Lord God: for the day of the Lord is near: for the Lord has made ready an offering, he has made his guests holy.

  • Amos 5:20
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    20 Will not the day of the Lord be dark and not light? even very dark, with no light shining in it?

  • Zeph 2:2
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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.

  • Zech 14:13
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    13 And it will be on that day that a great fear will be sent among them from the Lord; and everyone will take his neighbour's hand, and every man's hand will be lifted against his neighbour's.

  • Isa 22:12
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  • Jer 30:7
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    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.

  • Ezek 7:12
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    12 The time has come, the day is near: let not him who gives a price for goods be glad, or him who gets the price have sorrow:

  • Isa 34:8
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    8 For it is the day of the Lord's punishment, when he gives payment for the wrongs done to Zion.

  • Zeph 1:13
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    13 And their wealth will be violently taken away, and their houses will be made waste: they will go on building houses and never living in them, and planting vine-gardens but not drinking the wine from them.

  • 2 Pet 3:10
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    10 But the day of the Lord will come like a thief; and in that day the heavens will be rolled up with a great noise, and the substance of the earth will be changed by violent heat, and the world and everything in it will be burned up.

  • Isa 24:4
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    4 The earth is sorrowing and wasting away, the world is full of grief and wasting away, the high ones of the earth come to nothing.

  • Isa 30:27
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    27 See, the name of the Lord is coming from far, burning with his wrath, with thick smoke going up: his lips are full of passion, and his tongue is like a burning fire:

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    3 For see, the Lord is coming out from his place, and will come down, stepping on the high places of the earth.

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    6 And in that day there will be no heat or cold or ice;

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    32 This is what the Lord of armies has said: See, evil is going out from nation to nation, and a great storm will come up from the inmost parts of the earth.