Joel 2:10

World English Bible (2000)

The earth quakes before them. The heavens tremble. The sun and the moon are darkened, and the stars withdraw their shining.

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  • Isa 13:10 : 10 For the stars of the sky and its constellations will not give their light. The sun will be darkened in its going forth, and the moon will not cause its light to shine.
  • Matt 24:29 : 29 But immediately after the oppression of those days, the sun will be darkened, the moon will not give its light, the stars will fall from the sky, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken;
  • Ps 18:7 : 7 Then the earth shook and trembled. The foundations also of the mountains quaked and were shaken, because he was angry.
  • Joel 3:15-16 : 15 The sun and the moon are darkened, and the stars withdraw their shining. 16 Yahweh will roar from Zion, and thunder from Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth will shake; but Yahweh will be a refuge to his people, and a stronghold to the children of Israel.
  • Rev 8:12 : 12 The fourth angel sounded, and one third of the sun was struck, and one third of the moon, and one third of the stars; so that one third of them would be darkened, and the day wouldn't shine for one third of it, and the night in the same way.
  • Ezek 32:7-8 : 7 When I shall extinguish you, I will cover the heavens, and make its stars dark; I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon shall not give its light. 8 All the bright lights of the sky will I make dark over you, and set darkness on your land, says the Lord Yahweh.
  • Isa 34:4 : 4 All of the army of the sky will be dissolved. The sky will be rolled up like a scroll, and all its armies will fade away, as a leaf fades from off a vine or a fig tree.
  • Jer 4:23 : 23 I saw the earth, and, behold, it was waste and void; and the heavens, and they had no light.
  • Mark 13:24-25 : 24 But in those days, after that oppression, the sun will be darkened, the moon will not give its light, 25 the stars will be falling from the sky, and the powers that are in the heavens will be shaken.
  • Acts 2:20 : 20 The sun will be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and glorious day of the Lord comes.
  • Rev 6:12 : 12 I saw when he opened the sixth seal, and there was a great earthquake. The sun became black as sackcloth made of hair, and the whole moon became as blood.

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  • Joel 3:14-16
    3 verses
    87%

    14 Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision! For the day of Yahweh is near, in the valley of decision.

    15 The sun and the moon are darkened, and the stars withdraw their shining.

    16 Yahweh will roar from Zion, and thunder from Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth will shake; but Yahweh will be a refuge to his people, and a stronghold to the children of Israel.

  • Joel 2:30-31
    2 verses
    84%

    30 I will show wonders in the heavens and in the earth: blood, fire, and pillars of smoke.

    31 The sun will be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and terrible day of Yahweh comes.

  • Isa 13:8-10
    3 verses
    84%

    8 They will be dismayed. Pangs and sorrows will seize them. They will be in pain like a woman in labor. They will look in amazement one at another. Their faces will be faces of flame.

    9 Behold, the day of Yahweh comes, cruel, with wrath and fierce anger; to make the land a desolation, and to destroy its sinners out of it.

    10 For the stars of the sky and its constellations will not give their light. The sun will be darkened in its going forth, and the moon will not cause its light to shine.

  • 20 The sun will be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and glorious day of the Lord comes.

  • Joel 2:1-3
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    81%

    1 Blow the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy mountain! Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble, for the day of Yahweh comes, for it is close at hand:

    2 A day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness. As the dawn spreading on the mountains, a great and strong people; there has never been the like, neither will there be any more after them, even to the years of many generations.

    3 A fire devours before them, and behind them, a flame burns. The land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them, a desolate wilderness. Yes, and no one has escaped them.

  • 11 Yahweh thunders his voice before his army; for his forces are very great; for he is strong who obeys his command; for the day of Yahweh is great and very awesome, and who can endure it?

  • 29 But immediately after the oppression of those days, the sun will be darkened, the moon will not give its light, the stars will fall from the sky, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken;

  • 30 They will roar against them in that day like the roaring of the sea. If one looks to the land behold, darkness and distress. The light is darkened in its clouds.

  • Joel 2:5-6
    2 verses
    78%

    5 Like the noise of chariots on the tops of the mountains do they leap, like the noise of a flame of fire that devours the stubble, as a strong people set in battle array.

    6 At their presence the peoples are in anguish. All faces have grown pale.

  • 19 Men shall go into the caves of the rocks, and into the holes of the earth, from before the terror of Yahweh, and from the glory of his majesty, when he arises to shake the earth mightily.

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    24 But in those days, after that oppression, the sun will be darkened, the moon will not give its light,

    25 the stars will be falling from the sky, and the powers that are in the heavens will be shaken.

  • 22 and look to the earth, and see distress, darkness, and the gloom of anguish. They will be driven into thick darkness.

  • 9 They rush on the city. They run on the wall. They climb up into the houses. They enter in at the windows like thieves.

  • 13 Therefore I will make the heavens tremble, and the earth will be shaken out of its place in the wrath of Yahweh of Armies, and in the day of his fierce anger.

  • 9 It will happen in that day," says the Lord Yahweh, "that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the clear day.

  • 21 To go into the caverns of the rocks, and into the clefts of the ragged rocks, from before the terror of Yahweh, and from the glory of his majesty, when he arises to shake the earth mightily.

  • Rev 6:12-14
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    76%

    12 I saw when he opened the sixth seal, and there was a great earthquake. The sun became black as sackcloth made of hair, and the whole moon became as blood.

    13 The stars of the sky fell to the earth, like a fig tree dropping its unripe figs when it is shaken by a great wind.

    14 The sky was removed like a scroll when it is rolled up. Every mountain and island were moved out of their places.

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    25 There will be signs in the sun, moon, and stars; and on the earth anxiety of nations, in perplexity for the roaring of the sea and the waves;

    26 men fainting for fear, and for expectation of the things which are coming on the world: for the powers of the heavens will be shaken.

  • Zeph 1:14-15
    2 verses
    76%

    14 The great day of Yahweh is near. It is near, and hurries greatly, the voice of the day of Yahweh. The mighty man cries there bitterly.

    15 That day is a day of wrath, a day of distress and anguish, a day of trouble and ruin, a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and blackness,

  • 20 so that the fish of the sea, and the birds of the sky, and the animals of the field, and all creeping things who creep on the earth, and all the men who are on the surface of the earth, shall shake at my presence, and the mountains shall be thrown down, and the steep places shall fall, and every wall shall fall to the ground.

  • 3 in the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall bow themselves, and the grinders cease because they are few, and those who look out of the windows are darkened,

  • 23 Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed; for Yahweh of Armies will reign on Mount Zion, and in Jerusalem; and before his elders will be glory.

  • 8 All the bright lights of the sky will I make dark over you, and set darkness on your land, says the Lord Yahweh.

  • 5 The mountains quake before him, and the hills melt away. The earth trembles at his presence, yes, the world, and all who dwell in it.

  • 12 "Be astonished, you heavens, at this, and be horribly afraid. Be very desolate," says Yahweh.

  • Isa 24:18-19
    2 verses
    74%

    18 It will happen that he who flees from the noise of the fear will fall into the pit; and he who comes up out of the midst of the pit will be taken in the snare; for the windows on high are opened, and the foundations of the earth tremble.

    19 The earth is utterly broken. The earth is torn apart. The earth is shaken violently.

  • Isa 13:5-6
    2 verses
    74%

    5 They come from a far country, from the uttermost part of heaven, even Yahweh, and the weapons of his indignation, to destroy the whole land.

    6 Wail; for the day of Yahweh is at hand! It will come as destruction from the Almighty.

  • 6 It will happen in that day, that there will not be light, cold, or frost.

  • 6 For this is what Yahweh of Armies says: 'Yet once, it is a little while, and I will shake the heavens, the earth, the sea, and the dry land;

  • 16 Give glory to Yahweh your God, before he causes darkness, and before your feet stumble on the dark mountains, and, while you look for light, he turns it into the shadow of death, and makes it gross darkness.

  • 20 Won't the day of Yahweh be darkness, and not light? Even very dark, and no brightness in it?

  • 4 The chariots rage in the streets. They rush back and forth in the broad ways. Their appearance is like torches. They run like the lightnings.

  • 10 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in which the heavens will pass away with a great noise, and the elements will be dissolved with fervent heat, and the earth and the works that are in it will be burned up.

  • 4 His lightning lights up the world. The earth sees, and trembles.