Ezekiel 30:3
New International Version
For the day is near, the day of the LORD is near— a day of clouds, a time of doom for the nations.

New Living Translation
for the terrible day is almost here— the day of the LORD! It is a day of clouds and gloom, a day of despair for the nations.

English Standard Version
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
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.

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

New King James Version
For the day is near, Even the day of the LORD is near; It will be a day of clouds, the time of the Gentiles.

New American Standard Bible
“For the day is near, Indeed, the day of the LORD is near; It will be a day of clouds, A time of doom for the nations.

NASB 1995
“For the day is near, Even the day of the LORD is near; It will be a day of clouds, A time of doom for the nations.

NASB 1977
“For the day is near, Even the day of the LORD is near; It will be a day of clouds, A time of doom for the nations.

Legacy Standard Bible
For the day is near, Even the day of Yahweh is near; It will be a day of clouds, A time of doom for the nations.

Amplified Bible
“For the day is near, Even the day of the LORD is near, It will be a cloudy day; A time of doom for the nations.

Christian Standard Bible
For a day is near; a day belonging to the LORD is near. It will be a day of clouds, a time of doom for the nations.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
For a day is near; a day belonging to the LORD is near. It will be a day of clouds, a time of doom for 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.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Because that day is near; the day of LORD JEHOVAH is near, a day of clouds and the time of the nations

Brenton Septuagint Translation
For the day of the Lord is nigh, a day of cloud; it shall be the end of the nations.

Contemporary English Version
because you will soon be punished! That will be a time of darkness and doom for all nations.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For the day is near, yea the day of the Lord is near: a cloudy day, it shall be the time of the nations.

English Revised Version
For the day is near, even the day of the LORD is near, a day of clouds; it shall be the time of the heathen.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
The day is near. The day of the LORD is near. It will be a gloomy day, a time of trouble for the nations.

Good News Translation
The day is near, the day when the LORD will act, A day of clouds and trouble for the nations.

International Standard Version
For comes now the day— comes now the Day of the LORD, the day of clouds! The time of the gentiles is fulfilled!

JPS Tanakh 1917
For the day is near, Even the day of the LORD is near, A day of clouds, it shall be the time of the nations.

Literal Standard Version
For a day [is] near, a day [is] near to YHWH! It is a time of cloud [over] the nations.

Majority Standard Bible
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.

New American Bible
Yes, a day approaches, a day of the Lord approaches: A day of dark cloud, a time appointed for the nations.

NET Bible
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.

New Revised Standard Version
For a day is near, the day of the LORD is near; it will be a day of clouds, a time of doom for the nations.

New Heart English Bible
For the day is near, even the day of the LORD is near; it shall be a day of clouds, a time of the nations.

Webster's Bible Translation
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 Yahweh’s day is near. It will be a day of clouds, a 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.

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Context
A Lament for Egypt
2“Son of man, prophesy and declare that this is what the Lord GOD says: Wail, ‘Alas for that day!’ 3For 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. 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.…

Cross References
Isaiah 13:6
Wail, for the Day of the LORD is near; it will come as destruction from the Almighty.

Ezekiel 7:19
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 wealth, for it became the stumbling block that brought their iniquity.

Ezekiel 13:5
You did not go up to the gaps or restore the wall around the house of Israel so that it would stand in the battle on the Day of the LORD.

Ezekiel 30:18
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 32:7
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.

Ezekiel 34:12
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.

Joel 1:15
Alas for the day! For the Day of the LORD is near, and it will come as destruction from the Almighty.


Treasury of Scripture

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

the day is

Ezekiel 7:7,12
The morning is come unto thee, O thou that dwellest in the land: the time is come, the day of trouble is near, and not the sounding again of the mountains…

Psalm 37:13
The Lord shall laugh at him: for he seeth that his day is coming.

Obadiah 1:15
For the day of the LORD is near upon all the heathen: as thou hast done, it shall be done unto thee: thy reward shall return upon thine own head.

a cloudy

Ezekiel 30:18
At Tehaphnehes also the day shall be darkened, when I shall break there the yokes of Egypt: and the pomp of her strength shall cease in her: as for her, a cloud shall cover her, and her daughters shall go into captivity.

Ezekiel 32:7
And when I shall put thee out, I will cover the heaven, and make the stars thereof dark; I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon shall not give her light.

Ezekiel 34:12
As a shepherd seeketh out his flock in the day that he is among his sheep that are scattered; so will I seek out my sheep, and will deliver them out of all places where they have been scattered in the cloudy and dark day.

the time

Ezekiel 29:12
And I will make the land of Egypt desolate in the midst of the countries that are desolate, and her cities among the cities that are laid waste shall be desolate forty years: and I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and will disperse them through the countries.

Psalm 110:6,6
He shall judge among the heathen, he shall fill the places with the dead bodies; he shall wound the heads over many countries…

Psalm 149:7-9
To execute vengeance upon the heathen, and punishments upon the people; …

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Ezekiel 30
1. The desolation of Egypt and her helpers
20. The arm of Babylon shall be strengthened to break the arm of Egypt.














(3) The time of the heathen.--The judgment upon Egypt is but an individual instance, and is symbolic of general judgment upon all merely worldly power. Her fall is one step in the general overthrow of whatever exalts and opposes itself to God. Very similar to Ezekiel 30:2-3 are the prophecies in Isaiah 13:6; Isaiah 13:9; Joel 1:13; Joel 1:15; Joel 2:2; Obadiah 1:15; Zephaniah 1:7; Zephaniah 1:14. . . . Verse 3. - The day of the Lord. Here, as everywhere (see note on Ezekiel 13:5), the words stand for any time in which the Divine judgments manifest themselves in the world's history. Of it Ezekiel says, following in the footsteps of Joel (Joel 2:2), that it shall be a day of cloud, i.e. of darkness and trouble; a day of the heathen, i.e. a time in which the heathen who had exulted in the punishment of Israel should know that the Lord was their Judge also, that he had his "day" appointed for them.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
For
כִּֽי־ (kî-)
Conjunction
Strong's 3588: A relative conjunction

the day [is]
י֔וֹם (yō·wm)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 3117: A day

near,
קָר֣וֹב (qā·rō·wḇ)
Adjective - masculine singular
Strong's 7138: Near

the Day
י֖וֹם (yō·wm)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 3117: A day

of the LORD
לַֽיהוָ֑ה (Yah·weh)
Preposition-l | Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3068: LORD -- the proper name of the God of Israel

is near.
וְקָר֥וֹב (wə·qā·rō·wḇ)
Conjunctive waw | Adjective - masculine singular
Strong's 7138: Near

It will be
יִֽהְיֶֽה׃ (yih·yeh)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 1961: To fall out, come to pass, become, be

a day
י֣וֹם (yō·wm)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 3117: A day

of clouds,
עָנָ֔ן (‘ā·nān)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 6051: A cloud, the nimbus, thunder-cloud

a time
עֵ֥ת (‘êṯ)
Noun - common singular construct
Strong's 6256: Time, now, when

of doom for the nations.
גּוֹיִ֖ם (gō·w·yim)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 1471: A foreign nation, a Gentile, a troop of animals, a flight of locusts


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