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Joel 1:14-16
New Catholic Bible
Joel 1:14-16
New Catholic Bible
14 Announce a holy fast;
proclaim a solemn assembly.
Summon the elders
and all the inhabitants of the land
to the house of the Lord, your God,
and cry out to the Lord.
15 Woe to us on that day!
For the day of the Lord[a] is near,
coming as destruction from the Almighty.
16 Has not the food been cut off
before our very eyes?
Have not joy and gladness disappeared
from the house of our God?
Footnotes
- Joel 1:15 The day of the Lord is that of a judgment: which one often imagines under the form of a general catastrophe preceding the reestablishment of the reign of God. Almighty: i.e., an ancient biblical name for God (El-shaddai) used here because of its play on words in Hebrew.