Amos 5:18

God's Word

How horrible it will be for those who long for the day of the Lord! Why do you long for that day? The day of the Lord is one of darkness and not light.

Cross References

Isaiah 13:6

Cry loudly, for the day of the Lord is near. It will come like destruction from the Almighty.

Isaiah 24:18

Whoever flees from news of a disaster will fall into a pit. Whoever climbs out of that pit will be caught in a trap. The floodgates in the sky will be opened, and the foundations of the earth will shake.

Isaiah 5:19

They say, “Let God hurry and quickly do his work so that we may see what he has in mind. Let the plan of the Holy One of Israel happen quickly so that we may understand what he is doing.”

Isaiah 5:30

On that day they will roar over their prey as the sea roars. If they look at the land, they will see only darkness and distress. Even the light will be darkened by thick clouds.

Isaiah 58:2

They look for me every day and want to know my ways. They act as if they were a nation that has done what is right and as if they haven’t disregarded God’s judgment ⌞on them⌟. They ask me for just decrees. They want God to be near them.

Isaiah 8:22

They will look at the earth and see only distress and gloom. They will go in anguish and be forced into darkness.

Isaiah 9:19

The land is scorched by the fury of the Lord of Armies, and the people are like fuel for the fire. No one shows concern for others:

Jeremiah 13:16

Honor the Lord your God before it gets dark, before your feet stumble on the mountains in the twilight. You will look for light, but the Lord will turn it into the shadow of death and change it into deep darkness.

Jeremiah 17:15

People keep asking me, “Where is the Lord’s word? Let it come.”

Jeremiah 30:7

How terrible that day will be! There will be no other day like it. It will be a time of calamity for the descendants of Jacob, but they will be rescued from it.

Ezekiel 12:22

“Son of man, what is this proverb you have in Israel: ‘Days go by, and every vision comes to nothing’?

Ezekiel 12:27

“Son of man, the people of Israel are saying, ‘The vision that Ezekiel sees won’t happen for a long time. What he prophecies will happen in the distant future.’

Joel 1:15

This will be a terrible day! The day of the Lord is near, and it will come like destruction from the Almighty.

Joel 2:10

The earth quakes in their presence, and the sky shakes. The sun and the moon turn dark, and the stars no longer shine.

Joel 2:11

The Lord shouts out orders to his army. His forces are very large. The troops that carry out his commands are mighty. The day of the Lord is extremely terrifying. Who can endure it?

Joel 2:31

The sun will become dark, and the moon will become as red as blood before the terrifying day of the Lord comes.”

Obadiah 1:15

“The day of the Lord is near for all nations. Edom, you will be treated as you have treated others. You will get back what you have given.

Malachi 4:1

“Certainly the day is coming! It will burn like a furnace. All arrogant people and all evildoers will be ⌞like⌟ straw. The day that is coming will burn them up completely,” says the Lord of Armies. “It won’t leave a single root or branch.

Deuteronomy 32:24

They will be starved by famines and ravaged by pestilence and deadly epidemics. I will send vicious animals against them along with poisonous animals that crawl on the ground.

2 Peter 3:10

The day of the Lord will come like a thief. On that day heaven will pass away with a roaring sound. Everything that makes up the universe will burn and be destroyed. The earth and everything that people have done on it will be exposed.

2 Peter 3:4

by saying, “What’s happened to his promise to return? Ever since our ancestors died, everything continues as it did from the beginning of the world.”