Ezekiel 30:3 “For the day is near, the Day of the LORD is near. It will be a day of…”

Ezekiel 30:3

For the day is near, the Day of the LORD is near. It will be a day of clouds, a time of doom for the nations.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

For the day is near, even the day of the LORD is near, a cloudy day; it shall be the time of the heathen.

World English Bible

For the day is near, even the LORD’s day is near. It will be a day of clouds, a time of the nations.

American Standard Version

For the day is near, even the day of Jehovah is near; it shall be a day of clouds, a time of the nations.

Geneva Bible 1599

For the day is neere, and the day of the Lord is at hand, a cloudie day, and it shall be the time of the heathen.

Darby Translation

For the day is at hand, yea, the day of Jehovah is at hand, a day of clouds; it shall be the time of the nations.

Young's Literal Translation

For near [is] a day, near [is] a day to Jehovah! A day of clouds, the time of nations it is.

Bible in Basic English

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

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Cross references

“the day is”

Obadiah 1:15 Ezekiel 7:7 Ezekiel 7:12 Zephaniah 1:14 Zephaniah 1:7 Psalm 37:13

Obadiah 1:15 · BSB

For the Day of the LORD is near for all the nations. As you have done, it will be done to you; your recompense will return upon your own head.

Ezekiel 7:7 · BSB

Doom has come to you, O inhabitants of the land. The time has come; the day is near; there is panic on the mountains instead of shouts of joy.

Ezekiel 7:12 · BSB

The time has come; the day has arrived. Let the buyer not rejoice and the seller not mourn, for wrath is upon the whole multitude.

Zephaniah 1:14 · BSB

The great Day of the LORD is near— near and coming quickly. Listen, the Day of the LORD! Then the cry of the mighty will be bitter.

Zephaniah 1:7 · BSB

Be silent in the presence of the Lord GOD, for the Day of the LORD is near. Indeed, the LORD has prepared a sacrifice; He has consecrated His guests.

Psalm 37:13 · BSB

but the Lord laughs, seeing that their day is coming.

“a cloudy”

Ezekiel 30:18 Ezekiel 34:12 Ezekiel 32:7 Amos 5:16–20 Exodus 14:20 Exodus 14:24

Ezekiel 30:18 · BSB

The day will be darkened in Tahpanhes when I break the yoke of Egypt and her proud strength comes to an end. A cloud will cover her, and her daughters will go into captivity.

Ezekiel 34:12 · BSB

As a shepherd looks for his scattered sheep when he is among the flock, so I will look for My flock. I will rescue them from all the places to which they were scattered on a day of clouds and darkness.

Ezekiel 32:7 · BSB

When I extinguish you, I will cover the heavens and darken their stars. I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon will not give its light.

Amos 5:16–20 · BSB

Therefore this is what the LORD, the God of Hosts, the Lord, says: “There will be wailing in all the public squares and cries of ‘Alas! Alas!’ in all the streets. The farmer will be summoned to mourn, and the mourners to…

Exodus 14:20 · BSB

so that it came between the camps of Egypt and Israel. The cloud was there in the darkness, but it lit up the night. So all night long neither camp went near the other.

Exodus 14:24 · BSB

At morning watch, however, the LORD looked down on the army of the Egyptians from the pillar of fire and cloud, and He threw their camp into confusion.

“the time”

Isaiah 24:21–23 Psalm 110:6 Zechariah 14:3–19 Ezekiel 29:12 Psalm 149:7–9 Isaiah 34:2–17

Isaiah 24:21–23 · BSB

In that day the LORD will punish the host of heaven above and the kings of the earth below.

Psalm 110:6 · BSB

He will judge the nations, heaping up the dead; He will crush the leaders far and wide.

Zechariah 14:3–19 · BSB

Then the LORD will go out to fight against those nations, as He fights in the day of battle.

Ezekiel 29:12 · BSB

I will make the land of Egypt a desolation among desolate lands, and her cities will lie desolate for forty years among the ruined cities. And I will disperse the Egyptians among the nations and scatter them throughout t…

Psalm 149:7–9 · BSB

to inflict vengeance on the nations and punishment on the peoples,

Isaiah 34:2–17 · BSB

The LORD is angry with all the nations and furious with all their armies. He will devote them to destruction; He will give them over to slaughter.

Also

Joel 1:15 Ezekiel 7:19

Joel 1:15 · BSB

Alas for the day! For the Day of the LORD is near, and it will come as destruction from the Almighty.

Ezekiel 7:19 · BSB

They will throw their silver into the streets, and their gold will seem unclean. Their silver and gold cannot save them in the day of the wrath of the LORD. They cannot satisfy their appetites or fill their stomachs with…

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

2“Son of man, prophesy and declare that this is what the Lord GOD says: Wail, ‘Alas for that day!’

4A sword will come against Egypt, and there will be anguish in Cush when the slain fall in Egypt, its wealth is taken away, and its foundations are torn down.

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