Joel 2:31 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

³¹ The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and terrible day of the LORD come.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³¹ The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the LORD come.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³¹ The sun shall be turned to darkness and the moon to blood before the great and terrible day of the Lord comes. [Isa. 13:6, 9-11; 24:21-23; Ezek. 32:7-10; Matt. 24:29, 30; Rev. 6:12-17.]

American Standard Version (1901)

³¹ The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and terrible day of Jehovah cometh.

Common English Bible

³¹ The sun will be turned to darkness, and the moon to blood before the great and dreadful day of the LORD comes.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³¹ The sun will be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and terrible day of the Lord shall arrive.

Joel 2:31 Cross References

Matthew 24:29

But immediately, after the tribulation of those days, the sun shall be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:

Malachi 4:5

Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the great and terrible day of the LORD come.

Malachi 4:1

For, behold, the day cometh, it burneth as a furnace; and all the proud, and all that work wickedness, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.

Joel 3:15

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

Joel 2:10

The earth quaketh before them; the heavens tremble: the sun and the moon are darkened, and the stars withdraw their shining:

Luke 21:25

And there shall be signs in sun and moon and stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, in perplexity for the roaring of the sea and the billows;

Joel 3:1

For, behold, in those days, and in that time, when I shall bring again the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem,

Matthew 27:45

Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land until the ninth hour.

Acts 2:20

The sun shall be turned into darkness, And the moon into blood, Before the day of the Lord come, That great and notable day:

Revelation 8:12

And the fourth angel sounded, and the third part of the sun was smitten, and the third part of the moon, and the third part of the stars; that the third part of them should be darkened, and the day should not shine for the third part of it, and the night in like manner.

Jeremiah 4:28

For this shall the earth mourn, and the heavens above be black: because I have spoken it, I have purposed it, and I have not repented, neither will I turn back from it.

Ezekiel 32:7

And when I shall extinguish thee, I will cover the heaven, and make the stars thereof dark; I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon shall not give her light.

Joel 2:1

Blow ye the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy mountain; let all the inhabitants of the land tremble: for the day of the LORD cometh, for it is nigh at hand;

Joel 2:2

a day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness, as the dawn spread upon the mountains; a great people and a strong, there hath not been ever the like, neither shall be any more after them, even to the years of many generations.

Joel 2:11

And the LORD uttereth his voice before his army; for his camp is very great; for he is strong that executeth his word: for the day of the LORD is great and very terrible; and who can abide it?

Zechariah 14:6

And it shall come to pass in that day, that the light shall not be with brightness and with gloom: