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Ezekiel 30:3

in Ezekiel 30

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.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

For the day is near, even the day of Jehovah is near; it shall be a day of clouds, a time of the nations.

KJV

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

This verse in Ezekiel 30

Commentary

8 notes on this verse

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

A repetition of a former prophecy against Egypt, just before the desolation of it begun by their own bad conduct, which gradually weakened them and prepared the way for the king of Babylon,

This site's exposition

Again the word of the LORD came to me

on Ezekiel 30:1-4

The oracle opens with the day of the Lord formula, Woe worth the day!, the day is near, applied to Egypt's own hour of judgment. Keil notes the phrase works on two levels throughout the prophets, a specific historical catastrophe and the pattern every such catastrophe previews.

This site's exposition

a time of doom for the nations

Joel 2:2 and Zephaniah 1:15 also describe the Day of the LORD as a day of clouds and thick darkness. The cloud returns over Tahpanhes in verse 18. Egypt's hour opens a season of judgment on many nations.

The record, by era

The Church Fathers1 voice

A commentator

Jerome

Commentary on Ezekiel · Written before 420.

proposed

(Chapter 30, Verses 1 and following) And the word of the Lord came to me, saying: Son of man, prophesy and say: Thus saith the Lord God: Howl ye, woe, woe to the day: For the day is near, yea the day of the Lord is near, a day of cloud, the time of the nations shall be. And the sword shall come upon Egypt: and there shall be dread in Ethiopia, when the wounded shall fall in Egypt, and the multitude thereof shall be taken away, and the foundations thereof shall be destroyed.

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

For the day is near; the day we have so long dreaded, so long deserved. It is the day of the Lord, the day in which he will manifest himself as a God of vengeance. You have your day now, when you carry all before you, and trample on all about you, but God will have his day shortly, the day of the revelation of his righteous judgment," Ps. xxxvii.

quarantine:debris (2026-07-29) — odd-straight-quotes

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The Nineteenth Century2 voices

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

proposed

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;

quarantine:debris (2026-07-29) — starts-lowercase+unbalanced-parens

The time of the pagan - The time when the pagan (Egyptians) shall be judged.

The words behind it

11 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Zephaniah 1:14

    The great Day of the LORD is near—near and coming quickly. Listen, the Day of the LORD! Then the cry of the mighty will be bitter.

    it leads to

    • Ezekiel 7:12

      The time has come; the day has arrived. Let the buyer not rejoice and the seller not mourn, for wrath is upon the whole multitude.

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • Malachi 4:5

      Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and awesome Day of the LORD.

    • Zephaniah 1:7

      Be silent in the presence of the Lord GOD, for the Day of the LORD is near. Indeed, the LORD has prepared a sacrifice; He has consecrated His guests.

    • 1 Thessalonians 4:16

      For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a loud command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ will be the first to…

  • Through

    Obadiah 1:15

    For the Day of the LORD is near for all the nations. As you have done, it will be done to you; your recompense will return upon your own head.

    it leads to

    • James 2:13

      For judgment without mercy will be shown to anyone who has not been merciful. Mercy triumphs over judgment.

    • Habakkuk 2:8

      Because you have plundered many nations, the remnant of the people will plunder you—because of your bloodshed against man and your violence against the land, the city, and all their dwellers.

    • Matthew 7:2

      For with the same judgment you pronounce, you will be judged; and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.

    • Psalms 137:8

      O Daughter of Babylon, doomed to destruction, blessed is he who repays you as you have done to us.

Where this verse is studied

About Ezekiel

Ezekiel’s Vision of the Valley of Dry Bones, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Ezekiel’s Vision of the Valley of Dry Bones, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.

This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Carl Friedrich Keil, Biblical Commentary on the Prophecies of Ezekiel; Carl Friedrich Keil, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: Ezekiel; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; Jerome, Commentary on Ezekiel; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.