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Verse 15

Alas for the day! for the day of the Lord is at hand ,.... A time of severer and heavier judgments than these of the locusts, caterpillars, &c.; 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" F24 כשד משדי "uti vastitas a Deo vastatore", Drusius. ; even from the almighty God, who is able to save and destroy, and none can deliver out of his hands; see 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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