“Alas for the day! for the day of the Lord is at hand, and as a destruction from the Almighty shall it come.”
The exclamation 'Alas for the day! For the day of the LORD is near' introduces the theme that the locust plague is a manifestation of the day of the LORD, the apocalyptic day of divine judgment and intervention. The description of it as a day of darkness and gloom and thick clouds suggests cosmic darkness rather than merely local plague. This verse indicates that the locust plague is interpreted as a sign of the imminent end times.
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