Joel 2:2

God's Word

It is a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and overcast skies. A large and mighty army will spread over the mountains like the dawn. Nothing like this has ever happened. Nothing like this will ever happen again.

Cross References

Psalm 10:6

He says to himself, “Nothing can shake me. I’ll never face any trouble.”

Psalm 97:2

Clouds and darkness surround him. Righteousness and justice are the foundations of his throne.

Exodus 10:14

They invaded all of Egypt and landed all over the country in great swarms. Never before had there been so many locusts like this, nor would there ever be that many again.

Exodus 10:6

They will fill your houses and the houses of all your officials and those of all the Egyptians. Your parents and ancestors never saw anything like this from the time they first came here until now.” Moses turned and left Pharaoh.

Exodus 20:21

The people kept their distance while Moses went closer to the dark cloud where God was.

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 8:22

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

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 13:6

After many days the Lord said to me, “Go to the Euphrates, and get the belt from where I told you to bury it.”

Lamentations 1:12

“Doesn’t this affect all of you who pass by? Look and see if there’s any pain like the pain that the Lord has caused me, like the pain that he has made me suffer on the day of his fierce anger.

Ezekiel 32:7

“ ‘When I put out your light, I will cover the sky and darken the stars. I will cover the sun with clouds, and the moon won’t shine anymore.

Ezekiel 34:12

As a shepherd looks after his flock when he is with his scattered sheep, so I will look after my sheep. I will rescue them on a cloudy and gloomy day from every place where they have been scattered.

Ezekiel 38:9

You will attack like a storm and cover the land like a cloud. Your troops and the many armies will be with you.

Daniel 12:1

⌞The person who looked like a human continued,⌟ “At that time Michael, the great commander, will stand up on behalf of the descendants of your people. It will be a time of trouble unlike any that has existed from the time there have been nations until that time. But at that time your people, everyone written in the book, will be rescued.

Daniel 9:12

So you did what you said you would do to us and our rulers by bringing a great disaster on us. Nowhere in the world has anything ever happened like what has happened to Jerusalem.

Joel 1:6

A strong nation attacked my land. It has too many soldiers to count. They have teeth like lions. They have fangs like grown lions.

Joel 2:25

“Then I will repay you for the years that the mature locusts, the adult locusts, the grasshoppers, and the young locusts ate your crops. (They are the large army that I sent against you.)

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.”

Joel 2:5

As they leap on mountaintops, they sound like rattling chariots, like crackling fire burning up straw, and like a mighty army prepared for battle.

Joel 3:4

“Now what do you have against me, Tyre and Sidon and all the regions of Philistia? Are you paying me back for something I have done? If you are paying me back, I will quickly pay you back for what you have done.

Amos 4:13

God forms the mountains and creates the wind. He reveals his thoughts to humans. He makes dawn and dusk ⌞appear⌟. He walks on the high places of the earth. His name is the Lord God of Armies.

Zephaniah 1:7

Be silent in the presence of the Almighty Lord, because the day of the Lord is near. The Lord has prepared a sacrifice. He has invited his special guests.

Zechariah 14:6

On that day there will be neither heat nor freezing cold.

Matthew 24:21

There will be a lot of misery at that time, a kind of misery that has not happened from the beginning of the world until now and will certainly never happen again.

Mark 13:19

It will be a time of misery that has not happened from the beginning of God’s creation until now, and will certainly never happen again.

Deuteronomy 32:7

Remember a time long ago. Think about all the past generations. Ask your fathers to remind you, and your leaders to tell you.

Hebrews 12:18

You have not come to something that you can feel, to a blazing fire, to darkness, to gloom, to a storm,

Jude 1:13

Their shame is like the foam on the wild waves of the sea. They are wandering stars for whom gloomy darkness is kept forever.

Revelation 9:2

It opened the shaft of the bottomless pit, and smoke came out of the shaft like the smoke from a large furnace. The smoke darkened the sun and the air.