Joel 2:2 - The Scriptures 1998

² a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and thick darkness, like the morning clouds spread over the mountains – a people many and strong, the like of whom has never been, nor shall there ever be again after them, to the years of many generations.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

² a day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds and of thick darkness, as the morning spread upon the mountains: a great people and a strong; there hath not been ever the like, neither shall be any more after it, even to the years of many generations.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

² A day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and of thick mists and darkness, like the morning dawn spread upon the mountains; so there comes a [heathen, hostile] people numerous and mighty, the like of which has never been before and shall not be again even to the years of many generations.

American Standard Version (1901)

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.

Common English Bible

² a day of darkness and no light, a day of clouds and thick darkness! Like blackness spread out upon the mountains, a great and powerful army comes, unlike any that has ever come before them, or will come after them in centuries ahead.

Catholic Public Domain Version

² a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and whirlwinds. Like the morning reaching over the mountains, they are a numerous and strong people. Nothing like them has existed since the beginning, nor will exist after them, even in the years of generation upon generation.

Joel 2:2 Cross References

Psalm 10:6

He has said in his heart, “I shall not be moved; From generation to generation, never be in evil!”

Psalm 97:2

Clouds and darkness all around Him, Righteousness and right-ruling are the foundation of His throne.

Exodus 10:14

And the locusts went up over all the land of Mitsrayim and settled within all the borders of Mitsrayim, very grievous. There had never been locusts like them before, nor would there again be like them.

Exodus 10:6

‘And they shall fill your houses, and the houses of all your servants, and the houses of all the Mitsrites, which neither your fathers nor your fathers’ fathers have seen, since the day that they were on the earth to this day.’ ” Then he turned and went out from Pharaoh.

Exodus 20:21

So the people stood at a distance, but Mosheh drew near the thick darkness where Elohim was.

Isaiah 5:30

And in that day they shall growl over it as with the growling of the sea. And one shall look at the earth, and see, darkness and distress! And light shall be darkened by the clouds.

Isaiah 8:22

And they shall look to the earth and see distress and darkness, gloom of hard times, and be driven into thick darkness.

Jeremiah 13:16

Give esteem to יהוה  your Elohim before He brings darkness, and before your feet stumble on the dark mountains, and while you are looking for light. He turns it into the shadow of death, makes it gross darkness.

Jeremiah 13:6

And it came to be after many days that יהוה  said to me, “Arise, go to the Euphrates, and take from there the girdle which I commanded you to hide there.”

Lamentations 1:12

“Is it naught to you, All you who pass by? Look and see if there is any pain like my pain, Which has been brought on me, Which יהוה  has inflicted on me In the day of His burning displeasure.

Ezekiel 32:7

‘And when I extinguish you, I shall cover the heavens, and make its stars dark. I shall cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon shall not give her light.

Ezekiel 34:12

“As a shepherd seeks out his flock on the day he is among his scattered sheep, so I shall seek out My sheep and deliver them from all the places where they were scattered in a day of cloud and thick darkness.

Ezekiel 38:9

“And you shall go up, coming like a storm, covering the land like a cloud, you and all your bands and many peoples with you.”

Daniel 12:1

“Now at that time Miḵ

Daniel 9:12

“And He has confirmed His words, which He spoke against us and against our rulers who judged us, by bringing upon us great evil. For under all the heavens there has not been done like what was done to Yerushalayim.

Joel 1:6

For a nation has come up against My land, strong, and innumerable. Its teeth are the teeth of a lion, and it has the fangs of a lioness.

Joel 2:25

“Then I shall repay you the years that the swarming locust has eaten, the crawling locust, and the consuming locust, and the gnawing locust, My great army which I sent among you.

Joel 2:31

the sun is turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the coming of the great and awesome day of יהוה.

Joel 2:5

As the noise of chariots they leap over mountaintops, as the noise of a flaming fire consuming stubble, as a mighty people set in battle array.

Joel 3:4

“And also, what are you to Me, O Tsor and Tsiḏ

Amos 4:13

For look, He who forms mountains, and creates the wind, and who declares to man what His thought is, and makes the morning darkness, and who treads the high places of the earth, יהוה  Elohim of hosts is His Name.

Zephaniah 1:7

Hush! in the presence of the Master יהוה. For the day of יהוה  is near, for יהוה  has prepared a slaughter, He has set apart His invited ones.

Zechariah 14:6

And in that day it shall be: there is no light, it is dark.

Matthew 24:21

“For then there shall be great distress, such as has not been since the beginning of the world until this time, no, nor ever shall be.

Mark 13:19

“For in those days there shall be distress, such as has not been from the beginning of creation which Elohim created until this time, nor ever shall be.

Deuteronomy 32:7

“Remember the days of old, Consider the years of many generations. Ask your father and let him show you, Your elders, and let them say to you:

Hebrews 12:18

For you have not drawn near to a mountain touched and scorched with fire, and to blackness, and darkness and storm,

Jude 1:13

wild waves of the sea foaming up their own shame, straying stars for whom blackness of darkness is kept forever.

Revelation 9:2

And he opened the pit of the deep, and smoke went up out of the pit like the smoke of a great furnace. And the sun was darkened, also the air, because of the smoke of the pit.