Ecclesiastes 12:2

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

Some day the light of the sun and the moon and the stars will all seem dim to you. Rain clouds will remain over your head.

Cross References

Genesis 27:1

After Isaac had become old and almost blind, he called in his firstborn son Esau, who asked him, “Father, what can I do for you?”

Psalm 42:7

Your vicious waves have swept over me like an angry ocean or a roaring waterfall.

Psalm 71:20

You made me suffer a lot, but you will bring me back from this deep pit and give me new life.

Psalm 77:16

The ocean looked at you, God, and it trembled deep down with fear.

Psalm 90:10

We can expect seventy years, or perhaps eighty, if we are healthy, but even our best years bring trouble and sorrow. Suddenly our time is up, and we disappear.

Isaiah 13:10

Light will disappear from the stars in the sky; the dawning sun will turn dark, and the moon will lose its glow.

Isaiah 5:30

On the day they attack, they will roar like the sea. And across the land you will see nothing but darkness and trouble, because the light of day will be covered by thick clouds.

Joel 3:15

no light from the sun or moon, and stars no longer shine.

Matthew 24:29

Straight after those days of suffering, “The sun will become dark, and the moon will no longer shine. The stars will fall, and the powers in the sky will be shaken.”

1 Samuel 4:18

Eli was still sitting on a chair beside the wall of the town gate. And when the man said that the Philistines had taken the sacred chest, Eli fell backwards. He was a very heavy old man, and the fall broke his neck and killed him. He had been a leader of Israel for forty years.