# General Information:

These are Yahweh's words about Israel.

# The time is coming; the day has come close

Both "The time" and "the day" refer to the time when God will punish the people of Israel. Alternate translation: "Israel's punishment will happen very soon" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-parallelism]])

# my anger is on the entire multitude

"I am angry with the whole multitude"

# multitude

a very large number of people. Here it refers to the people of Israel.