Zephaniah 1:14

The great day of the Lordis near The day is called "great and terrible," Joel 2:31; Malachi 4:5, and is always represented as near, Isaiah 13:6; Joel 2:1; Joel 2:11 (see notes on Zephaniah 1:7).

Even the voice of the day Rather as an exclamation: hark! the day of the Lord! or, the sound of the day of the Lord!

shall cry there bitterly lit. crieth out therethe scene being before the prophet's view. It is not necessary to take therein a temporal sense, then, a meaning not quite certain even in Proverbs 8:27 (cf. Judges 5:11; Hosea 10:9; Psalms 14:5; Psalms 66:6; Psalms 133:3). As to the idea expressed comp. Isaiah 13:7-8, "all hands shall be feeble and every heart of man shall melt; and they shall be dismayed." Jeremiah 30:5-7. With "crieth out bitterly" cf. Isaiah 33:7, "the ambassadors of peace weep bitterly."