Zephaniah 1:15

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

That day will be a day of God’s anger, a day of distress and hardship, a day of devastation and ruin, a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and dark skies,

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  • Joel 2:2 : 2 It will be a day of dreadful darkness, a day of foreboding storm clouds, like blackness spread over the mountains. It is a huge and powerful army– there has never been anything like it ever before, and there will not be anything like it for many generations to come!
  • Isa 22:5 : 5 For the Sovereign LORD of Heaven’s Armies, has planned a day of panic, defeat, and confusion. In the Valley of Vision people shout and cry out to the hill.
  • Amos 5:18-20 : 18 The Lord Demands Justice Woe to those who wish for the day of the LORD! Why do you want the LORD’s day of judgment to come? It will bring darkness, not light. 19 Disaster will be inescapable, as if a man ran from a lion only to meet a bear, then escaped into a house, leaned his hand against the wall, and was bitten by a poisonous snake. 20 Don’t you realize the LORD’s day of judgment will bring darkness, not light– gloomy blackness, not bright light?
  • Zeph 1:18 : 18 Neither their silver nor their gold will be able to deliver them in the day of the LORD’s angry judgment. The whole earth will be consumed by his fiery wrath. Indeed, he will bring terrifying destruction on all who live on the earth.”
  • Zeph 2:2 : 2 before God’s decree becomes reality and the day of opportunity disappears like windblown chaff, before the LORD’s raging anger overtakes you– before the day of the LORD’s angry judgment overtakes you!
  • Luke 21:22-23 : 22 because these are days of vengeance, to fulfill all that is written. 23 Woe to those who are pregnant and to those who are nursing their babies in those days! For there will be great distress on the earth and wrath against this people.
  • Rom 2:5 : 5 But because of your stubbornness and your unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath for yourselves in the day of wrath, when God’s righteous judgment is revealed!
  • 2 Pet 3:7 : 7 But by the same word the present heavens and earth have been reserved for fire, by being kept for the day of judgment and destruction of the ungodly.
  • Rev 6:17 : 17 because the great day of their wrath has come, and who is able to withstand it?”
  • Jer 30:7 : 7 Alas, what a terrible time of trouble it is! There has never been any like it. It is a time of trouble for the descendants of Jacob, but some of them will be rescued out of it.
  • Joel 2:11 : 11 The voice of the LORD thunders as he leads his army. Indeed, his warriors are innumerable; Surely his command is carried out! Yes, the day of the LORD is awesome and very terrifying– who can survive it?
  • Job 3:4-8 : 4 That day– let it be darkness; let not God on high regard it, nor let light shine on it! 5 Let darkness and the deepest shadow claim it; let a cloud settle on it; let whatever blackens the day terrify it! 6 That night– let darkness seize it; let it not be included among the days of the year; let it not enter among the number of the months! 7 Indeed, let that night be barren; let no shout of joy penetrate it! 8 Let those who curse the day curse it– those who are prepared to rouse Leviathan.

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    14The LORD’s great day of judgment is almost here; it is approaching very rapidly! There will be a bitter sound on the LORD’s day of judgment; at that time warriors will cry out in battle.

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    15How awful that day will be! For the day of the LORD is near; it will come as destruction from the Divine Destroyer.

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    1The Locusts’ Devastation Blow the trumpet in Zion; sound the alarm signal on my holy mountain! Let all the inhabitants of the land shake with fear, for the day of the LORD is about to come. Indeed, it is near!

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  • Zeph 1:16-18
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    16a day of trumpet blasts and battle cries. Judgment will fall on the fortified cities and the high corner towers.

    17I will bring distress on the people and they will stumble like blind men, for they have sinned against the LORD. Their blood will be poured out like dirt; their flesh will be scattered like manure.

    18Neither their silver nor their gold will be able to deliver them in the day of the LORD’s angry judgment. The whole earth will be consumed by his fiery wrath. Indeed, he will bring terrifying destruction on all who live on the earth.”

  • Isa 13:9-10
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    9Look, the LORD’s day of judgment is coming; it is a day of cruelty and savage, raging anger, destroying the earth and annihilating its sinners.

    10Indeed the stars in the sky and their constellations no longer give out their light; the sun is darkened as soon as it rises, and the moon does not shine.

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    18The Lord Demands Justice Woe to those who wish for the day of the LORD! Why do you want the LORD’s day of judgment to come? It will bring darkness, not light.

  • Isa 5:30
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    30At that time they will growl over their prey, it will sound like sea waves crashing against rocks. One will look out over the land and see the darkness of disaster, clouds will turn the light into darkness.

  • Amos 5:20
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    20Don’t you realize the LORD’s day of judgment will bring darkness, not light– gloomy blackness, not bright light?

  • Ezek 30:2-3
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    2“Son of man, prophesy and say,‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says:“‘Wail,“Alas, the day is here!”

    3For the day is near, the day of the LORD is near; it will be a day of storm clouds, it will be a time of judgment for the nations.

  • Isa 13:6
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    6Wail, for the LORD’s day of judgment is near; it comes with all the destructive power of the Sovereign One.

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    14Crowds, great crowds are in the valley of decision, for the day of the LORD is near in the valley of decision!

    15The sun and moon are darkened; the stars withhold their brightness.

  • Isa 22:5
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    7Doom is coming upon you who live in the land! The time is coming, the day is near. There are sounds of tumult, not shouts of joy, on the mountains.

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    9In that day,” says the Sovereign LORD,“I will make the sun set at noon, and make the earth dark in the middle of the day.

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    4That day– let it be darkness; let not God on high regard it, nor let light shine on it!

    5Let darkness and the deepest shadow claim it; let a cloud settle on it; let whatever blackens the day terrify it!

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    2before God’s decree becomes reality and the day of opportunity disappears like windblown chaff, before the LORD’s raging anger overtakes you– before the day of the LORD’s angry judgment overtakes you!

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    22When one looks out over the land, he sees distress and darkness, gloom and anxiety, darkness and people forced from the land.

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    17because the great day of their wrath has come, and who is able to withstand it?”

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  • Jer 30:7
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    7Alas, what a terrible time of trouble it is! There has never been any like it. It is a time of trouble for the descendants of Jacob, but some of them will be rescued out of it.

  • Isa 22:12
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    30that the evil man is spared from the day of his misfortune, that he is delivered from the day of God’s wrath?

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  • Jer 23:19
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