“Hold thy peace at the presence of the Lord God: for the day of the Lord is at hand: for the Lord hath prepared a sacrifice, he hath bid his guests.”
Be silent before the Lord GOD! For the day of the LORD is at hand; the LORD has prepared a sacrifice; he has consecrated his guests—the command to silence before God establishes the sobering reality: the Day of the LORD approaches imminently, and its mechanism has been prepared. The metaphor of sacrifice and consecrated guests darkly invokes temple imagery; Judah and Jerusalem will become sacrificial victims, the 'guests' invited to their own doom. The verse establishes both imminence and inevitability.
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