Zephaniah 1:15

World English Bible (2000)

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,

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  • Joel 2:2 : 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.
  • Isa 22:5 : 5 For it is a day of confusion, and of treading down, and of perplexity, from the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, in the valley of vision; a breaking down of the walls, and a crying to the mountains."
  • Amos 5:18-20 : 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. 19 As if a man fled from a lion, and a bear met him; Or he went into the house and leaned his hand on the wall, and a snake bit him. 20 Won't the day of Yahweh be darkness, and not light? Even very dark, and no brightness in it?
  • Zeph 1:18 : 18 Neither their silver nor their gold will be able to deliver them in the day of Yahweh's wrath, but the whole land will be devoured by the fire of his jealousy; for he will make an end, yes, a terrible end, of all those who dwell in the land.
  • Zeph 2:2 : 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.
  • Luke 21:22-23 : 22 For these are days of vengeance, that all things which are written may be fulfilled. 23 Woe to those who are pregnant and to those who nurse infants in those days! For there will be great distress in the land, and wrath to this people.
  • Rom 2:5 : 5 But according to your hardness and unrepentant heart you are treasuring up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath, revelation, and of the righteous judgment of God;
  • 2 Pet 3:7 : 7 But the heavens that now are, and the earth, by the same word have been stored up for fire, being reserved against the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men.
  • Rev 6:17 : 17 for the great day of his wrath has come; and who is able to stand?"
  • Jer 30:7 : 7 Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob's trouble; but he shall be saved out of it.
  • Joel 2:11 : 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?
  • Job 3:4-8 : 4 Let that day be darkness. Don't let God from above seek for it, neither let the light shine on it. 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. 6 As for that night, let thick darkness seize on it. Let it not rejoice among the days of the year. Let it not come into the number of the months. 7 Behold, let that night be barren. Let no joyful voice come therein. 8 Let them curse it who curse the day, who are ready to rouse up leviathan.

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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.

  • Joel 1:15
    86%

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

  • 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.

  • Zeph 1:16-18
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    16 a day of the trumpet and alarm, against the fortified cities, and against the high battlements.

    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.

    18 Neither their silver nor their gold will be able to deliver them in the day of Yahweh's wrath, but the whole land will be devoured by the fire of his jealousy; for he will make an end, yes, a terrible end, of all those who dwell in the land.

  • Isa 13:9-10
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    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.

  • Amos 5:18
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    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.

  • Isa 5:30
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    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
    81%

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

  • Ezek 30:2-3
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    2 Son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Wail, Alas for the day!

    3 For the day is near, even the day of Yahweh is near; it shall be a day of clouds, a time of the nations.

  • Isa 13:6
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    6 Wail; for the day of Yahweh is at hand! It will come as destruction from the Almighty.

  • Joel 3:14-15
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    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.

  • Isa 22:5
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    5 For it is a day of confusion, and of treading down, and of perplexity, from the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, in the valley of vision; a breaking down of the walls, and a crying to the mountains."

  • Mal 4:1
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    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.

  • Ezek 7:7
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    7 Your doom has come to you, inhabitant of the land: the time has come, the day is near, [a day of] tumult, and not [of] joyful shouting, on the mountains.

  • Amos 8:9-10
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    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.

    10 I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will make you wear sackcloth on all your bodies, and baldness on every head. I will make it like the mourning for an only son, and its end like a bitter day.

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    15 For the day of Yahweh is near all the nations! As you have done, it will be done to you. Your deeds will return upon your own head.

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    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.

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    76%

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

  • Job 3:4-5
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    76%

    4 Let that day be darkness. Don't let God from above seek for it, neither let the light shine on it.

    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 34:8
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    8 For Yahweh has a day of vengeance, a year of recompense for the cause of Zion.

  • Joel 2:10-11
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    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?

  • Zeph 2:2
    75%

    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.

  • 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.

  • Zech 14:1
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    1 Behold, a day of Yahweh comes, when your spoil will be divided in your midst.

  • Rev 6:17
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    17 for the great day of his wrath has come; and who is able to stand?"

  • Jer 4:8
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    8 For this clothe yourself with sackcloth, lament and wail; for the fierce anger of Yahweh hasn't turned back from us.

  • Jer 30:7
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    7 Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob's trouble; but he shall be saved out of it.

  • Isa 22:12
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    12 In that day, the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, called to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to dressing in sackcloth:

  • 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.

  • Job 21:30
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    30 that the evil man is reserved to the day of calamity, That they are led forth to the day of wrath?

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    30 Yahweh will cause his glorious voice to be heard, and will show the descent of his arm, with the indignation of his anger, and the flame of a devouring fire, with a blast, storm, and hailstones.

  • Zeph 1:9-10
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    73%

    9 In that day, I will punish all those who leap over the threshold, who fill their master's house with violence and deceit.

    10 In that day, says Yahweh, there will be the noise of a cry from the fish gate, a wailing from the second quarter, and a great crashing from the hills.

  • Isa 21:1
    73%

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  • Acts 2:20
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    20 The sun will be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and glorious day of the Lord comes.

  • Jer 46:10
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    10 For that day is [a day] of the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, a day of vengeance, that he may avenge him of his adversaries: and the sword shall devour and be satiate, and shall drink its fill of their blood; for the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, has a sacrifice in the north country by the river Euphrates.

  • Jer 23:19
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    19 Behold, the storm of Yahweh, [even his] wrath, is gone forth, yes, a whirling storm: it shall burst on the head of the wicked.

  • Luke 17:30
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    30 It will be the same way in the day that the Son of Man is revealed.

  • Ezek 7:12
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    12 The time is come, the day draws near: don't let the buyer rejoice, nor the seller mourn; for wrath is on all its multitude.

  • Prov 1:27
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    27 when calamity overtakes you like a storm, when your disaster comes on like a whirlwind; when distress and anguish come on you.