Teks -- Ezekiel 30:3 (NET)

30:3 For the day is near, the day of the Lord is near; it will be a day of storm clouds, it will be a time of judgment for the nations.

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per frasa)

Wesley: Eze 30:3 - A cloudy day

So times of trouble are called.

Wesley: Eze 30:3 - Of the heathen

The time when God will reckon with the Heathens.

JFB: Eze 30:3 - the time of the heathen

Namely, for taking vengeance on them. The judgment on Egypt is the beginning of a world-wide judgment on all the heathen enemies of God (Joe 1:15; Joe 2:1-2; Joel 3:1-21; Oba 1:15).

Defender: Eze 30:3 - day of the Lord

"The day of the Lord" is the coming time when God will judge and punish the "heathen" (the Gentile nations) for their rebellion against Him and their persecution of His people. Evidently the imminent invasion of the Babylonians (Eze 30:5), conquering Egypt, as well as Ethiopia, Libya, Lydia and Chub (an unknown nation mentioned only this once in the Bible), is seen as a precursive fulfillment of a greater judgment coming in the battles of the last days."

TSK: Eze 30:3 - the day is // a cloudy // the time

the day is : Eze 7:7, Eze 7:12; Psa 37:13; Oba 1:15; Joe 2:1; Zep 1:7, Zep 1:14; Mat 24:33; Phi 4:5; Jam 5:9; Rev 6:17

a cloudy : Eze 30:18, Eze 32:7, Eze 34:12; Exo 14:20,Exo 14:24; Isa 19:1; Joe 2:1, Joe 2:2; Amo 5:16-20

the time : Eze 29:12; Psa 110:6, Psa 149:7-9; Isa 24:21-23, 34:2-17; Jer 25:15-29; Joe 3:11-14; Zep 3:6, Zep 3:7; Zech. 14:3-19; Rev 19:13-21

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per Ayat)

Poole: Eze 30:3 - The day // Near // The day of the Lord // A cloudy day // Of the heathen

The day the time of such distresses, as never the like known by you.

Near it will begin in your overthrow in the Cyrenian and Libyan deserts in very little time next it will continue in your civil war, and finally end in the Babylonish conquest: some two years, and you shall be miserably routed in the deserts of Libya; immediately after the civil war for eleven years together shall waste you; and then Nebuchadrezzar’ s forces will be upon you; so that, whereas there may be about sixteen or eighteen years between the prophecy and its fulfilling, here is thirteen or fourteen of them taken up with sorrows and afflictions, forerunners of the last.

The day of the Lord of the Lord’ s sore displeasure against Egypt and its allies.

Near within two years, as is said.

A cloudy day a dark day, so times of trouble are called, whereas prosperity is a day of light. Troubles, like violent storms, are black.

Of the heathen of the Egyptians to be wasted, and of the Babylonians to waste them; the day of pride, cruelty, and revenges to the one, the day of falling, spoil, and destruction to the other.

Gill: Eze 30:3 - For the day is near // even the day of the Lord is near // a cloudy day // it shall be the time of the Heathen

For the day is near,.... The day of Egypt's destruction, the time fixed for it:

even the day of the Lord is near; the day appointed by him, and in which he would make himself known by the judgments he executed: Kimchi observes, that, the same year this prophecy was delivered, Egypt was given into the hands of the king of Babylon:

a cloudy day; or; "a day of cloud" ^e; which was seldom seen in Egypt in a literal sense, rarely having any rain, their country being watered by the Nile; but now, in a figurative sense, the clouds would gather thick and black, and threaten with a horrible tempest of divine wrath, and of ruin and destruction:

it shall be the time of the Heathen: both when the Heathen nation of the Chaldeans should distress and conquer others; and when Heathen nations, as the Egyptians, Ethiopians, and others, should be destroyed by them. The Targum is,

"it shall be the time of the breaking or destruction of the people.''