Joel 2:31

World English Bible (2000)

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

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  • Joel 2:10 : 10 The earth quakes before them. The heavens tremble. The sun and the moon are darkened, and the stars withdraw their shining.
  • Mal 4:5 : 5 Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the great and terrible day of Yahweh comes.
  • 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;
  • Rev 6:12-13 : 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.
  • Joel 3:15 : 15 The sun and the moon are darkened, and the stars withdraw their shining.
  • Zeph 1:14-16 : 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, 16 a day of the trumpet and alarm, against the fortified cities, and against the high battlements.
  • Mal 4:1 : 1 "For, behold, the day comes, it burns as a furnace; and all the proud, and all who work wickedness, will be stubble; and the day that comes will burn them up," says Yahweh of Armies, "that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.
  • Isa 13:9-9 : 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.
  • Isa 34:4-5 : 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. 5 For my sword has drunk its fill in the sky. Behold, it will come down on Edom, and on the people of my curse, for judgment.
  • Joel 3:1 : 1 "For, behold, in those days, and in that time, when I restore the fortunes of Judah and Jerusalem,
  • Matt 27:45 : 45 Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land until the ninth hour.
  • 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.
  • Luke 21:25 : 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;

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Acts 2:19-21
    3 verses
    94%

    19 I will show wonders in the sky above, and signs on the earth beneath; blood, and fire, and billows of smoke.

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

    21 It will be, that whoever will call on the name of the Lord will be saved.'

  • Joel 2:30
    87%

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

  • Joel 2:10-11
    2 verses
    84%

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

    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?

  • Joel 3:14-16
    3 verses
    84%

    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.

  • Mark 13:24-25
    2 verses
    79%

    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.

  • Joel 2:32
    79%

    32 It will happen that whoever will call on the name of Yahweh shall be saved; for in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there will be those who escape, as Yahweh has said, and among the remnant, those whom Yahweh calls.

  • Isa 13:9-10
    2 verses
    79%

    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.

  • Joel 2:1-2
    2 verses
    79%

    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.

  • Matt 24:29
    76%

    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;

  • 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,

  • Amos 8:9
    76%

    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.

  • Isa 24:23
    76%

    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.

  • Zech 14:6-7
    2 verses
    75%

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

    7 It will be a unique day which is known to Yahweh; not day, and not night; but it will come to pass, that at evening time there will be light.

  • Isa 5:30
    74%

    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.

  • Amos 5:20
    74%

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

  • Rev 6:12
    74%

    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.

  • Joel 1:15
    73%

    15 Alas for the day! For the day of Yahweh is at hand, and it will come as destruction from the Almighty.

  • Isa 30:26
    73%

    26 Moreover the light of the moon will be like the light of the sun, and the light of the sun will be seven times brighter, like the light of seven days, in the day that Yahweh binds up the fracture of his people, and heals the wound they were struck with.

  • Ezek 32:7-8
    2 verses
    73%

    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.

  • Jer 13:16
    73%

    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.

  • Isa 8:22
    73%

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

  • Zeph 2:2
    72%

    2 before the appointed time when the day passes as the chaff, before the fierce anger of Yahweh comes on you, before the day of Yahweh's anger comes on you.

  • Mic 3:6
    71%

    6 "Therefore night is over you, with no vision, and it is dark to you, that you may not divine; and the sun will go down on the prophets, and the day will be black over them.

  • Amos 5:18
    71%

    18 "Woe to you who desire the day of Yahweh! Why do you long for the day of Yahweh? It is darkness, and not light.

  • Luke 21:25
    71%

    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;

  • Jer 31:35
    71%

    35 Thus says Yahweh, who gives the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, who stirs up the sea, so that its waves roar; Yahweh of Armies is his name:

  • Jer 2:12
    71%

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

  • Eccl 12:2-3
    2 verses
    71%

    2 Before the sun, the light, the moon, and the stars are darkened, and the clouds return after the rain;

    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,

  • Acts 2:16
    71%

    16 But this is what has been spoken through the prophet Joel:

  • Isa 60:2
    71%

    2 For, behold, darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the peoples; but Yahweh will arise on you, and his glory shall be seen on you.

  • Mal 4:5
    71%

    5 Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the great and terrible day of Yahweh comes.

  • Zeph 1:17
    71%

    17 I will bring distress on men, that they will walk like blind men, because they have sinned against Yahweh, and their blood will be poured out like dust, and their flesh like dung.

  • Isa 2:21
    71%

    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.

  • Mal 4:1
    71%

    1 "For, behold, the day comes, it burns as a furnace; and all the proud, and all who work wickedness, will be stubble; and the day that comes will burn them up," says Yahweh of Armies, "that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.

  • Isa 13:6
    71%

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

  • Joel 2:6
    70%

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

  • Isa 26:21
    70%

    21 For, behold, Yahweh comes forth out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity. The earth also will disclose her blood, and will no longer cover her slain.

  • 2 Pet 3:10
    70%

    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.