Joel 3:15

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Joel 2:10 : 10 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:
  • 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:
  • Luke 21:25-26 : 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.
  • Rev 6:12-13 : 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.
  • 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.

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    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.

  • Joel 2:10
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    10 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:

  • Mark 13:24-25
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    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.

  • 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:

  • Acts 2:19-20
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    19 And wonders will be seen in heaven, and signs on the earth, blood and fire and smoke:

    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 3:14
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    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.

  • Joel 3:16
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    16 Come quickly, all you nations round about, and get yourselves together there: make your strong ones come down, O Lord.

  • 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 5:30
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    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.

  • Zech 14:6-7
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    6 And in that day there will be no heat or cold or ice;

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    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.

  • Eccl 12:2-3
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    2 While the sun, or the light, or the moon, or the stars, are not dark, and the clouds come not back after the rain;

    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;

  • Ezek 32:7-8
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    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 24:23
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    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.

  • Mic 3:6
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    6 For this cause it will be night for you, without a vision; and it will be dark for you, without knowledge of the future; the sun will go down over the prophets, and the day will be black over them.

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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?

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    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.

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    15 Sorrow for the day! for the day of the Lord is near, and as destruction from the Ruler of all it will come.

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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.

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  • Rev 8:12
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  • 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;

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    5 Let the dark and the black night take it for themselves; let it be covered with a cloud; let the dark shades of day send fear on it.

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  • Mark 15:33
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    33 And when the sixth hour had come, it was dark over all the land till the ninth hour.

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

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    12 They are changing night into day; they say, The light is near the dark.

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