2:2 It will be 1 a day of dreadful darkness, 2
a day of foreboding storm clouds, 3
like blackness 4 spread over the mountains.
It is a huge and powerful army 5 –
there has never been anything like it ever before,
and there will not be anything like it for many generations to come! 6
30:7 Alas, what a terrible time of trouble it is! 7
There has never been any like it.
It is a time of trouble for the descendants of Jacob,
but some of them will be rescued out of it. 8
5:16 Because of Israel’s sins 9 this is what the Lord, the God who commands armies, the sovereign One, 10 says:
“In all the squares there will be wailing,
in all the streets they will mourn the dead. 11
They will tell the field workers 12 to lament
and the professional mourners 13 to wail.
5:17 In all the vineyards there will be wailing,
for I will pass through 14 your midst,” says the Lord.
5:18 Woe 15 to those who wish for the day of the Lord!
Why do you want the Lord’s day of judgment to come?
It will bring darkness, not light.