And doesn’t the Hebrew have “YHVH” instead of “Lord?”

First of all, “Lord’s day” for Sunday is completely unscriptural, is it not? It should be expunged, not accommodated, no? It is based on the idea that John had his vision on the first day of the week, when in reality, his vision was of the day of YHVH of which Joel speaks.

And I’m wondering if “endure” might not be trying to communicate “grasp” or “comprehend” what it will be like? Who has the capacity to take in the implications of such a thing? I don’t think that the sense is “who *will be* able to endure it” but rather, right *now*, who can fathom what this will actually be like when it happens. ?

>>>I like this rendering:
“for the day of Jehovah is great and very fear-inspiring, and who can hold up under it?”

I’m just curious; are you a JW?

I’m wondering if “great” doesn’t imply “really kewl” rather than “a really big deal.” “Great” also means “really large” and I don’t think that that is in view here. I think the idea here is *significance*.

I guess I might offer:

“YHVH’s time will be tremendously significant, deserving of tremendous fear, but can anyone comprehend just how significant and tremendous it will be?”

“for the day of Jehovah is great and very fear-inspiring, and who can hold up under it?”

NWT

“Great is the Day of the LORD, and terrible, and who can bear it?”

As a kid raised bilingual and a preacher’s kid who read a lot of KJVEnglish growing up, that’s natural and poetic to me. But of course I’m still glad there’s people like you working on more natural sorts of translation for today, when “Great” and “Terrible” are no longer synonyms, and “bear” generally just means a big fuzzy v’norah animal.