Joel 3:15

World English Bible (2000)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • 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.
  • Joel 2:31 : 31 The sun will be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, 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;
  • Luke 21:25-26 : 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.

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  • Isa 13:9-10
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    87%

    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 2:10
    87%

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

  • Joel 2:30-31
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    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.

  • Mark 13:24-25
    2 verses
    83%

    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.

  • Matt 24:29
    82%

    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;

  • Acts 2:19-20
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    82%

    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.

  • Joel 3:14
    80%

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

  • Joel 3:16
    79%

    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.

  • Amos 8:9
    79%

    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 5:30
    79%

    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.

  • Zech 14:6-7
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    78%

    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.

  • Zeph 1:14-15
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    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,

  • Eccl 12:2-3
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    78%

    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,

  • Ezek 32:7-8
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    77%

    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 24:23
    77%

    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.

  • Mic 3:6
    77%

    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 5:20
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    20 Won't the day of Yahweh be darkness, and not light? Even very dark, and no brightness in it?

  • Isa 8:22
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    22 and look to the earth, and see distress, darkness, and the gloom of anguish. They will be driven into thick darkness.

  • Joel 2:1-2
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    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.

  • Job 3:9
    75%

    9 Let the stars of its twilight be dark. Let it look for light, but have none, neither let it see the eyelids of the morning,

  • Joel 1:15
    74%

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

  • Jer 13:16
    74%

    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.

  • Luke 21:25-26
    2 verses
    74%

    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.

  • Rev 8:12
    74%

    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.

  • Isa 60:2
    74%

    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.

  • Rev 6:12-14
    3 verses
    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.

    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.

  • Job 3:5
    73%

    5 Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it for their own. Let a cloud dwell on it. Let all that makes black the day terrify it.

  • Isa 60:19-20
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    72%

    19 The sun shall be no more your light by day; neither for brightness shall the moon give light to you: but Yahweh will be to you an everlasting light, and your God your glory.

    20 Your sun shall no more go down, neither shall your moon withdraw itself; for Yahweh will be your everlasting light, and the days of your mourning shall be ended.

  • Jer 31:35
    72%

    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:

  • Mark 15:33
    72%

    33 When the sixth hour had come, there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour.

  • Isa 13:13
    72%

    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.

  • Joel 2:6
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    6 At their presence the peoples are in anguish. All faces have grown pale.

  • Isa 30:26
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    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.

  • Job 17:12
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    12 They change the night into day, saying 'The light is near' in the presence of darkness.

  • 2 Pet 3:10
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    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.

  • Isa 50:3
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    3 I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering."

  • Luke 23:45
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    45 The sun was darkened, and the veil of the temple was torn in two.