Joel 2:10

Bible in Basic English (1941)

The earth is troubled before them and the heavens are shaking: the sun and the moon have become dark, and the stars keep back their shining:

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  • Isa 13:10 : 10 For the stars of heaven and its bright armies will not give their light: the sun will be made dark in his journey through the heaven, and the moon will keep back her light.
  • Matt 24:29 : 29 But straight away, after the trouble of those days, the sun will be made dark and the moon will not give her light and the stars will come down from heaven and the powers of heaven will be moved:
  • Ps 18:7 : 7 Then trouble and shock came on the earth; and the bases of the mountains were moved and shaking, because he was angry.
  • Joel 3:15-16 : 15 Get your plough-blades hammered into swords, and your vine-knives into spears: let the feeble say, I am strong. 16 Come quickly, all you nations round about, and get yourselves together there: make your strong ones come down, O Lord.
  • Rev 8:12 : 12 And at the sounding of the fourth angel, a third part of the sun, and of the moon, and of the stars was made dark, so that there was no light for a third part of the day and of the night.
  • Ezek 32:7-8 : 7 And when I put out your life, the heaven will be covered and its stars made dark; I will let the sun be covered with a cloud and the moon will not give her light. 8 All the bright lights of heaven I will make dark over you, and put dark night on your land, says the Lord.
  • Isa 34:4 : 4 And the heavens will be rolled together like the roll of a book: and all their army will be gone, like a dead leaf from the vine, or a dry fruit from the fig-tree.
  • Jer 4:23 : 23 Looking at the earth, I saw that it was waste and without form; and to the heavens, that they had no light.
  • Mark 13:24-25 : 24 But in those days, after that time of trouble, the sun will be made dark and the moon will not give her light, 25 And the stars will be falling from heaven, and the powers which are in the heavens will be moved.
  • Acts 2:20 : 20 The sun will become dark and the moon will be turned to blood, before that great day of the Lord comes in glory:
  • Rev 6:12 : 12 And I saw when the sixth stamp was undone, and there was a great earth-shock; and the sun became black as haircloth, and all the moon became as blood;

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  • Joel 3:14-16
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    87%

    14 Give this out among the nations; make ready for war: get the strong men awake; let all the men of war come near, let them come up.

    15 Get your plough-blades hammered into swords, and your vine-knives into spears: let the feeble say, I am strong.

    16 Come quickly, all you nations round about, and get yourselves together there: make your strong ones come down, O Lord.

  • Isa 13:8-10
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    84%

    8 Their hearts will be full of fear; pains and sorrows will overcome them; they will be in pain like a woman in childbirth; they will be shocked at one another; their faces will be like flames.

    9 See, the day of the Lord is coming, cruel, with wrath and burning passion: to make the land a waste, driving the sinners in it to destruction.

    10 For the stars of heaven and its bright armies will not give their light: the sun will be made dark in his journey through the heaven, and the moon will keep back her light.

  • Acts 2:20
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    20 The sun will become dark and the moon will be turned to blood, before that great day of the Lord comes in glory:

  • Joel 2:1-3
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    81%

    1 Let the horn be sounded in Zion, and a war-cry in my holy mountain; let all the people of the land be troubled: for the day of the Lord is coming;

    2 For a day of dark and deep shade is near, a day of cloud and black night: like a black cloud a great and strong people is covering the mountains; there has never been any like them and will not be after them again, from generation to generation.

    3 Before them fire sends destruction, and after them flame is burning: the land is like the garden of Eden before them, and after them an unpeopled waste; truly, nothing has been kept safe from them.

  • Joel 2:11
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    11 And the Lord is thundering before his forces; for very great is his army; for he is strong who gives effect to his word: for the day of the Lord is great and greatly to be feared, and who has strength against it?

  • Matt 24:29
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    29 But straight away, after the trouble of those days, the sun will be made dark and the moon will not give her light and the stars will come down from heaven and the powers of heaven will be moved:

  • Isa 5:30
    78%

    30 And his voice will be loud over him in that day like the sounding of the sea: and if a man's eyes are turned to the earth, it is all dark and full of trouble; and the light is made dark by thick clouds.

  • Joel 2:5-6
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    5 Like the sound of war-carriages they go jumping on the tops of the mountains; like the noise of a flame of fire burning up the grain-stems, like a strong people lined up for the fight.

    6 At their coming the people are bent with pain: all faces become red together.

  • Isa 2:19
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    19 And men will go into cracks of the rocks, and into holes of the earth, for fear of the Lord, and before the glory of his power, when he comes out of his place, shaking the earth with his strength.

  • Mark 13:24-25
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    78%

    24 But in those days, after that time of trouble, the sun will be made dark and the moon will not give her light,

    25 And the stars will be falling from heaven, and the powers which are in the heavens will be moved.

  • Isa 8:22
    77%

    22 And he will be looking down on the earth, and there will be trouble and dark clouds, black night where there is no seeing.

  • Joel 2:9
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    9 They make a rush on the town, running on the wall; they go up into the houses and in through the windows like a thief.

  • Isa 13:13
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    13 For this cause the heavens will be shaking, and the earth will be moved out of its place, in the wrath of the Lord of armies, and in the day of his burning passion.

  • Amos 8:9
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    9 And it will come about in that day, says the Lord God, that I will make the sun go down in the middle of the day, and I will make the earth dark in daylight:

  • Isa 2:21
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    21 To take cover in the cracks of the rocks, and in the holes of the hills, for fear of the Lord, and before the glory of his power, when he comes out of his place, shaking the earth with his strength.

  • Rev 6:12-14
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    12 And I saw when the sixth stamp was undone, and there was a great earth-shock; and the sun became black as haircloth, and all the moon became as blood;

    13 And the stars of heaven were falling to the earth, like green fruit from a tree before the force of a great wind.

    14 And the heaven was taken away like the roll of a book when it is rolled up; and all the mountains and islands were moved out of their places.

  • Luke 21:25-26
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    25 And there will be signs in the sun and moon and stars; and on the earth, fear among the nations and doubt because of the loud noise of the sea and the waves;

    26 Men's strength will go from them in fear and in waiting for the things which are coming on the earth; for the powers of the heavens will be moved.

  • Zeph 1:14-15
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    76%

    14 The great day of the Lord is near, it is near and coming very quickly; the bitter day of the Lord is near, coming on more quickly than a man of war.

    15 That day is a day of wrath, a day of trouble and sorrow, a day of wasting and destruction, a day of dark night and deep shade, a day of cloud and thick dark.

  • Ezek 38:20
    76%

    20 So that the fish of the sea and the birds of heaven and the beasts of the field and everything moving on the earth, and all the men who are on the face of the earth, will be shaking before me, and the mountains will be overturned and the high places will come down, and every wall will come falling down to the earth.

  • Eccl 12:3
    75%

    3 In the day when the keepers of the house are shaking for fear, and the strong men are bent down, and the women who were crushing the grain are at rest because their number is small, and those looking out of the windows are unable to see;

  • Isa 24:23
    75%

    23 Then the moon will be veiled, and the sun put to shame; for the Lord of armies will be ruling in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem, and before his judges he will let his glory be seen.

  • Ezek 32:8
    75%

    8 All the bright lights of heaven I will make dark over you, and put dark night on your land, says the Lord.

  • Nah 1:5
    74%

    5 The mountains are shaking because of him, and the hills flowing away; the earth is falling to bits before him, the world and all who are in it.

  • Jer 2:12
    74%

    12 Be full of wonder, O heavens, at this; be overcome with fear, be completely waste, says the Lord.

  • Isa 24:18-19
    2 verses
    74%

    18 And it will be that he who goes in flight from the sound of fear will be overtaken by death; and he who gets free from death will be taken in the net: for the windows on high are open, and the bases of the earth are shaking.

    19 The earth is completely broken, it is parted in two, it is violently moved.

  • Isa 13:5-6
    2 verses
    74%

    5 They come from a far country, from the farthest part of heaven, even the Lord and the instruments of his wrath, with destruction for all the land.

    6 Send out a cry of grief; for the day of the Lord is near; it comes as destruction from the Most High.

  • Zech 14:6
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    6 And in that day there will be no heat or cold or ice;

  • Hag 2:6
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    6 For this is what the Lord of armies has said: In a short time I will make a shaking of the heavens and the earth and the sea and the dry land;

  • Jer 13:16
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    16 Give glory to the Lord your God, before he makes it dark, and before your feet are slipping on the dark mountains, and, while you are looking for a light, he makes it into deep dark, into black night.

  • Amos 5:20
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    20 Will not the day of the Lord be dark and not light? even very dark, with no light shining in it?

  • Nah 2:4
    73%

    4 The body-covers of his fighting men have been made red, the men of war are clothed in bright red: the war-carriages are like flames of fire in the day when he gets ready, the horses are shaking.

  • 2 Pet 3:10
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    10 But the day of the Lord will come like a thief; and in that day the heavens will be rolled up with a great noise, and the substance of the earth will be changed by violent heat, and the world and everything in it will be burned up.

  • Ps 97:4
    73%

    4 His bright flames give light to the world; the earth saw it with fear.