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Holdh thy peace at the presence of the Lord God: fori the day of the Lord is at hand: for the Lord hath prepared a sacrifice, he hath γbid his guestsl.

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Zech. 2:13• ¹³Be silent, O all flesh, before Jehovah: for he is raised up out of his holy habitation. (Zech. 2:13)

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Phil. 4:5• ⁵Let your mildness be known to all men. The Lord [is] near. (Phil. 4:5)

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sanctified, or, prepared,

Col. 1:12• ¹²giving thanks to the Father that qualified us for sharing the inheritance of the saints in light; (Col. 1:12)

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Matt. 22:2• ²The kingdom of the heavens is likened to a king which made a marriage-feast for his son, (Matt. 22:2)

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Rev. 19:17• ¹⁷And I saw an angel standing in the sun; and he cried with a loud voice, saying to all the fowls that fly in mid-heaven, Come, gather yourselves together unto the great supper of God; (Rev. 19:17)

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1 Sam. 2:9‑10• ⁹He will keep the feet of his saints,{HR}And the wicked shall be silent in darkness;{HR}For by strength shall no man prevail.
¹⁰The adversaries of Jehovah shall be broken to pieces;{HR}Out of heaven shall He thunder upon them:{HR}Jehovah shall judge the ends of the earth;{HR}And He shall give strength unto his king,{HR}And exalt the horn of His anointed. (1 Sam. 2:9‑10)

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Job 40:4‑5• ⁴Lo! I am vile: what shall I answer thee?{HR}I have laid my hand on my mouth;
⁵Once have I spoken, but I will not reply,{HR}Yea, twice, but I will add no more. (Job 40:4‑5)

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Psa. 46:10• ¹⁰Leave off, and know that I [am] God:{HR}I will be exalted among the nations;{HR}I will be exalted in the earth. (Psa. 46:10)

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Psa. 76:8‑9• ⁸From the heavens thou didst cause judgment to be heard;{HR}The earth feared and was still.
⁹When God rose for the judgment,{HR}To save all the meek of the earth. Selah. (Psa. 76:8‑9)

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Isa. 6:5• ⁵Then said I, Woe to me! for I am undone; for I [am] a man of unclean lips; and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips; for mine eyes have seen the King, Jehovah of hosts. (Isa. 6:5)

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Amos 6:10• ¹⁰And a man’s uncle shall take him up, and he that burneth him, to bring out the bones out of the house, and shall say unto him that is by the side of the house, Is there yet any with thee? and he shall say, No. Then shall he say, Hold thy tongue; for we may not make mention of the name of Jehovah. (Amos 6:10)

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Hab. 2:20• ²⁰But Jehovah is in his holy temple: let all the earth keep silence before him. (Hab. 2:20)

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Zech. 2:13• ¹³Be silent, O all flesh, before Jehovah: for he is raised up out of his holy habitation. (Zech. 2:13)

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Rom. 3:19• ¹⁹Now we know that whatever things the law saith, it speaketh to those that [are] in the law, that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world be under judgment with God. (Rom. 3:19)

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Rom. 9:20• ²⁰Nay rather, O man, who art thou that answerest against God? Shall the thing moulded say to him that moulded, Why madest thou me thus? (Rom. 9:20)

for the day.

Zeph. 1:14• ¹⁴The great day of Jehovah is near, it is near, and hasteth greatly, even the voice of the day of Jehovah: the mighty man shall cry there bitterly. (Zeph. 1:14)

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Isa. 2:12• ¹²For there shall be a day of Jehovah of hosts upon all that is proud and haughty, and upon all that is lifted up, and it shall be brought low; (Isa. 2:12)

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Isa. 13:6• ⁶Howl ye; for the day of Jehovah [is] at hand; as destruction from the Almighty shall it come. (Isa. 13:6)

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Ezek. 7:7,10• ⁷The mourning is come unto thee, Ο thou that dwellest in the land: the time is come, the day of trouble is near, and not the sounding again of the mountains.
¹⁰Behold the day, behold, it is come: the morning is gone forth; the rod hath blossomed, pride hath budded. (Ezek. 7:7,10)

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Joel 2:1‑2,11,31• ¹Blow ye the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy mountain: let all the inhabitants of the land tremble: for the day of Jehovah cometh, for it is nigh at hand;
²a day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds and of thick darkness, as the morning spread upon the mountains; a great people and a strong; there hath not been ever the like, neither shall be any more after it, even to the years of many generations.
¹¹and Jehovah shall utter his voice before his army: for his camp is very great: for [he is] strong that executeth his word: for the day of Jehovah is great and very terrible; and who can abide it?
³¹The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of Jehovah come. (Joel 2:1‑2,11,31)

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Amos 5:18‑20• ¹⁸Woe unto you that desire the day of Jehovah! to what end is it for you? the day of Jehovah is darkness, and not light.
¹⁹As if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him; and went into the house, and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him.
²⁰Shall not the day of Jehovah be darkness, and not light? even very dark, and no brightness in it? (Amos 5:18‑20)

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Mal. 4:1• ¹For, behold, the day cometh that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble; and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith Jehovah of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch. (Mal. 4:1)

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Phil. 4:5• ⁵Let your mildness be known to all men. The Lord [is] near. (Phil. 4:5)

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2 Peter 3:10‑12• ¹⁰But the day of [the] Lord will come as a thief; in which the heavens shall pass away with rushing noise, and elements, with fervent heat, shall be dissolved, and [the] earth and the works that are therein shall be burnt up.
¹¹All these things being thus to be dissolved, of what sort ought ye to be in holy ways and godliness,
¹²waiting for and hastening the coming of the day of God, by reason of which [day] heavens being on fire shall be dissolved and elements in fervent heat shall melt? (2 Peter 3:10‑12)

for the Lord.

Isa. 34:6• ⁶The sword of Jehovah is filled with blood, it is made fat with fatness, with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams; for Jehovah hath a sacrifice in Bozrah, and a great slaughter in the land of Edom. (Isa. 34:6)

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Jer. 46:10• ¹⁰For this is the day of Jehovah God of hosts, a day of vengeance, that he may avenge him of his adversaries; and the sword shall devour, and it shall be satiate and made drunk with their blood: for the Jehovah of hosts hath a sacrifice in the north country by the river Euphrates. (Jer. 46:10)

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Ezek. 39:17‑20• ¹⁷And, thou son of man, thus saith the Lord Jehovah, Speak unto every feathered fowl, and to every beast of the field, Assemble yourselves, and come; gather yourselves on every side to my sacrifice that I do sacrifice for you, even a great sacrifice upon the mountains of Israel, that ye may eat flesh and drink blood.
¹⁸Ye shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of the princes of the earth, of rams, of lambs, and of goats, of bullocks, all of them fatlings of Bashan.
¹⁹And ye shall eat fat till ye be full, and drink blood till ye be drunken, of my sacrifice which I have sacrificed for you.
²⁰Thus ye shall be filled at my table with horses and chariots, with mighty men, and with all men of war, saith the Lord Jehovah. (Ezek. 39:17‑20)

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Rev. 19:17‑18• ¹⁷And I saw an angel standing in the sun; and he cried with a loud voice, saying to all the fowls that fly in mid-heaven, Come, gather yourselves together unto the great supper of God;
¹⁸that ye may eat the flesh of kings, and the flesh of chiliarchs, and the flesh of strong men, and the flesh of horses, and of those that sit on them, and the flesh of all, both free and bond, and both little and great. (Rev. 19:17‑18)

he hath.

Prov. 9:1‑6• ¹Wisdom hath built her house;{HR}She hath hewn out her seven pillars;
²She hath slaughtered her slaughtering ,{HR}She hath mingled her wine,{HR}She hath also furnished her table.
³She hath sent forth her maidens;{HR}She crieth upon the summits of the high places of the city,
⁴Whoso [is] simple, let him turn in hither.{HR}To him that is void of understanding she saith,
⁵Come, eat ye of my bread,{HR}And drink of the wine I have mingled.
⁶Forsake follies and live,{HR}And go in the way of understanding. (Prov. 9:1‑6)

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Matt. 22:4• ⁴Again he sent forth other bondmen, saying, Tell those that have been called, Behold, my dinner I have made ready: mine oxen and my fatlings are slaughtered; and all things [are] ready: come to the marriage-feast. (Matt. 22:4)

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Luke 14:16‑17• ¹⁶And he said to him, A certain man made a great supper and invited many.
¹⁷And he sent his bondman at the hour of supper to say to those who were invited, Come, for already all things are ready. (Luke 14:16‑17)

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Heb. sanctified, or prepared.

1 Sam. 16:5• ⁵And he said, Peaceably: I am come to sacrifice to Jehovah. Hallow yourselves, and come with me to the sacrifice. And he hallowed Jesse and his sons, and called them to the sacrifice. (1 Sam. 16:5)

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1 Sam. 20:26• ²⁶Nevertheless Saul spake not anything that day: for he thought, Something had befallen him, he is not clean; surely he is not clean. (1 Sam. 20:26)

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Col. 1:12• ¹²giving thanks to the Father that qualified us for sharing the inheritance of the saints in light; (Col. 1:12)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Be silent at the presence of the Lord Jehovah; for the day of Jehovah is at hand; for Jehovah hath prepared a sacrifice, he hath hallowedg his guests.

JND Translation Notes

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See Isa. 13.3.

W. Kelly Translation

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Hold thy peace at the presence of the Lord Jehovah: for the day of Jehovah is at hand: for Jehovah hath prepared a sacrifice, he hath bid his guests.