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.

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

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.

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

the day is

Ezekiel 7:7,12 Destruction is come upon thee that dwellest in the land: the time is come, the day of slaughter is near, and not of the joy of mountains. . . .

Psalm 37:13 But the Lord shall laugh at him: for he foreseeth that his day shall come.

Obadiah 1:15 Neither shalt thou stand in the crossways to kill them that flee: and thou shalt not shut up them that remain of him in the day of tribulation.

Joel 2:1 Blow ye the trumpet in Sion, sound an alarm in my holy mountain, let all the inhabitants of the land tremble: because the day of the Lord cometh, because it is nigh at hand.

Zephaniah 1:7,14 Be silent before the face of the Lord God: for the day of the Lord is near, for the Lord hath prepared a victim, he hath sanctified his guests. . . .

Matthew 24:33 So you also, when you shall see all these things, know ye that it is nigh, even at the doors.

Philippians 4:5 Let your modesty be known to all men. The Lord is nigh.

James 5:9 Grudge not, brethren, one against another, that you may not be judged. Behold the judge standeth before the door.

Revelation 6:17 For the great day of their wrath is come. And who shall be able to stand?

a cloudy

Ezekiel 30:18 And in Taphnis the day shall be darkened, when I shall break there the sceptres of Egypt, and the pride of her power shall cease in her: a cloud shall cover her, and her daughters shall be led into captivity.

Ezekiel 32:7 And I will cover the heavens, when thou shalt be put out, and I will 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 the shepherd visiteth his flock in the day when he shall be in the midst of his sheep that were scattered, so will I visit my sheep, and will deliver them out of all the places where they have been scattered in the cloudy and dark day.

Exodus 14:20,24 Stood behind, between the Egyptians' camp and the camp of Israel: and it was a dark cloud, and enlightening the night, so that they could not come at one another all the night. . . .

Isaiah 19:1 The burden of Egypt. Behold the Lord will ascend upon a swift cloud, and will enter into Egypt, and the idols of Egypt shall be moved at his presence, and the heart of Egypt shall melt in the midst thereof.

Joel 2:1,2 Blow ye the trumpet in Sion, sound an alarm in my holy mountain, let all the inhabitants of the land tremble: because the day of the Lord cometh, because it is nigh at hand. . . .

Amos 5:16-20 Therefore thus saith the Lord the God of hosts the sovereign Lord: In every street there shall be wailing: and in all places that are without, they shall say: Alas, alas! and they shall call the husbandman to mourning, and such as are skilful in lamentation to lament. . . .

the time

Ezekiel 29:12 And I will make the land of Egypt desolate in the midst of the lands that are desolate, and the cities thereof in the midst of the cites that are destroyed, and they shall be desolate for 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 nations, he shall fill ruins: he shall crush the heads in the land of many. . . .

Psalm 149:7-9 To execute vengeance upon the nations, chastisements among the people: . . .

Isaiah 24:21-23 And it shall come to pass, that in that day the Lord shall visit upon the host of heaven on high, and upon the kings of the earth, on the earth. . . .

Isaiah 34:2 For the indignation of the Lord is upon all nations, and his fury upon all their armies: he hath killed them, and delivered them to slaughter.

Jeremiah 25:15-29 For thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: Take the cup of wine of this fury at my hand: and thou shalt make all the nations to drink thereof, into which I shall send thee. . . .

Joel 3:11-14 Break forth, and come, all ye nations from round about, and gather yourselves together: there will the Lord cause all thy strong ones to fall down. . . .

Zephaniah 3:6,7 I have destroyed the nations, and their towers are beaten down: I have made their ways desert, so that there is none that passeth by: their cities are desolate, there is not a man remaining, nor any inhabitant. . . .

Zechariah 14:3-19 Then the Lord shall go forth, and shall fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle. . . .

Revelation 19:13-21 And he was clothed with a garment sprinkled with blood. And his name is called: THE WORD OF GOD. . . .