Ezekiel 30:2
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New International Version (©2011)
"Son of man, prophesy and say: 'This is what the Sovereign LORD says: "'Wail and say, "Alas for that day!"

New Living Translation (©2007)
"Son of man, prophesy and give this message from the Sovereign LORD: "Weep and wail for that day,

English Standard Version (©2001)
“Son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus says the Lord GOD: “Wail, ‘Alas for the day!’

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
"Son of man, prophesy and say, 'Thus says the Lord GOD, "Wail, 'Alas for the day!'

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
Son of man, prophesy and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Howl ye, Woe worth the day!

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
Son of man, prophesy and say: This is what the Lord GOD says: Wail: Woe for the day!

International Standard Version (©2012)
"Son of Man, here's what you are to prophesy and announce, 'This is what the Lord GOD says: "Wail out loud! Oh no! The day!

NET Bible (©2006)
"Son of man, prophesy and say, 'This is what the sovereign LORD says: "'Wail, "Alas, the day is here!"

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
"Son of man, prophesy. Say, 'This is what the Almighty LORD says: Cry for that day!

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
Son of man, prophesy and say, Thus says the Lord GOD; Wail, Alas for the day!

American King James Version
Son of man, prophesy and say, Thus said the Lord GOD; Howl you, Woe worth the day!

American Standard Version
Son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Wail ye, Alas for the day!

Douay-Rheims Bible
Son of man prophesy, and say: Thus saith the Lord God: Howl ye, Woe, woe to the day:

Darby Bible Translation
Son of man, prophesy and say, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Howl ye, Alas for the day!

English Revised Version
Son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD: Howl ye, Woe worth the day!

Webster's Bible Translation
Son of man, prophesy and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Howl ye, Alas the day!

World English Bible
Son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Wail, Alas for the day!

Young's Literal Translation
'Son of man, prophesy, and thou hast said: Thus said the Lord Jehovah: Howl ye, ha! for the day!

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

30:1-19 The prophecy of the destruction of Egypt is very full. Those who take their lot with God's enemies, shall be with them in punishment. The king of Babylon and his army shall be instruments of this destruction. God often makes one wicked man a scourge to another. No place in the land of Egypt shall escape the fury of the Chaldeans. The Lord is known by the judgments he executes. Yet these are only present effects of the Divine displeasure, not worthy of our fear, compared with the wrath to come, from which Jesus delivers his people.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 2. - Howl ye. The words read like an echo of Isaiah 13:6, and find a parallel also in Joel 1:11, 13; Zephaniah 1:7, 14. Woe worth the day! It may be well to note that the familiar phrase is a survival of the Anglo-Saxon verb weorthan (German werden), "to become," so that its exact meaning is "Woe be to the day"

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Son of man, prophesy and say, thus saith the Lord God,.... Prophesy against Egypt's king and inhabitants, and in the name of the Lord thus speak against them:

howl ye; ye Egyptians, and also ye Ethiopians, and all others after named, which should share in the destruction of Egypt; this is said to give them notice of it, and prepare them for it:

woe worth the day! or, "alas for the day!" (d) O the unhappy day! what a sad dismal day is this! O that we should ever live to see such wretched times!

(d) "bah diei", Munster, Vatablus; "heu diei", Cocceius, Starckius.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

2. Woe worth the day!—that is, Alas for the day!

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A Lament for Egypt
1The word of the LORD came again to me, saying, 2Son of man, prophesy and say, Thus said the Lord GOD; Howl you, Woe worth the day! 3For the day is near, even the day of the LORD is near, a cloudy day; it shall be the time of the heathen. …

James 5:1 Now listen, you rich people, weep and wail because of the misery that is coming on you.
Isaiah 13:6 Wail, for the day of the LORD is near; it will come like destruction from the Almighty.
Isaiah 15:2 Dibon goes up to its temple, to its high places to weep; Moab wails over Nebo and Medeba. Every head is shaved and every beard cut off.
Ezekiel 21:12 Cry out and wail, son of man, for it is against my people; it is against all the princes of Israel. They are thrown to the sword along with my people. Therefore beat your breast.
Ezekiel 30:1 The word of the LORD came to me:
Joel 1:5 Wake up, you drunkards, and weep! Wail, all you drinkers of wine; wail because of the new wine, for it has been snatched from your lips.
Joel 1:11 Despair, you farmers, wail, you vine growers; grieve for the wheat and the barley, because the harvest of the field is destroyed.