Joel 1:15
Ah, ah, ah, for the day: because the day of the Lord is at hand, and it shall come like destruction from the mighty.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- A, a, a, diei ! quia prope est dies Domini, et quasi vastitas a potente veniet.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- Οἴμοι οἴμοι οἴμοι εἰς ἡμέραν, ὅτι ἐγγὺς ἡμέρα Κυρίου, καὶ ὡς ταλαιπωρία ἐκ ταλαιπωρίας ἥξει.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- אֲהָ֖הּ לַיּ֑וֹם כִּ֤י קָרוֹב֙ י֣וֹם יְהוָ֔ה וּכְשֹׁ֖ד מִשַׁדַּ֥י יָבֽוֹא
Haydock's commentary
Day. Hebrew ahah layom: (Haydock) "Ah, what a day!"
Mighty. Septuagint, "destruction." They have read in a different manner. God is about to give sentence, (Calmet) and to send Nabuchodonosor, (St. Jerome) or to destroy by famine, ver. 17.
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.