John Gill's Exposition on Joel 1:15

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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Alas for the day! for the day of the Lord [is] at hand, etc.] A time of severer and heavier judgments than these of the locusts, caterpillars, etc. which were a presage and emblem of greater ones, even of the total destruction of their city, temple, and nation, either by the Chaldeans, or by the Romans, or both: and as a destruction from the Almighty shall it come; unawares, suddenly, and irresistibly: there is in the Hebrew text an elegant play on words, which may be rendered, as “wasting from the waster”, or “destruction from the destroyer, shall it come” F22; even from the almighty God, who is able to save and destroy, and none can deliver out of his hands; (see <231306>Isaiah 13:6); the word signifies one powerful and victorious, as Aben Ezra observes; and so it does in the Arabic language.

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