Joel 2:2

Good News Translation (US Version)

It will be a dark and gloomy day, a black and cloudy day. The great army of locusts advances like darkness spreading over the mountains. There has never been anything like it, and there never will be again.

Cross References

Joel 1:6

An army of locusts has attacked our land; they are powerful and too many to count; their teeth are as sharp as those of a lion.

Joel 2:5

As they leap on the tops of the mountains, they rattle like chariots; they crackle like dry grass on fire. They are lined up like a great army ready for battle.

Joel 2:25

I will give you back what you lost in the years when swarms of locusts ate your crops. It was I who sent this army against you.

Joel 2:31

The sun will be darkened, and the moon will turn red as blood before the great and terrible day of the Lord comes.

Daniel 12:1

The angel wearing linen clothes said, “At that time the great angel Michael, who guards your people, will appear. Then there will be a time of troubles, the worst since nations first came into existence. When that time comes, all the people of your nation whose names are written in God's book will be saved.

Isaiah 8:22

or stare at the ground, but they will see nothing but trouble and darkness, terrifying darkness into which they are being driven.

Isaiah 5:30

When that day comes, they will roar over Israel as loudly as the sea. Look at this country! Darkness and distress! The light is swallowed by darkness.

Jude 1:13

They are like wild waves of the sea, with their shameful deeds showing up like foam. They are like wandering stars, for whom God has reserved a place forever in the deepest darkness.

Hebrews 12:18

You have not come, as the people of Israel came, to what you can feel, to Mount Sinai with its blazing fire, the darkness and the gloom, the storm,

Mark 13:19

For the trouble of those days will be far worse than any the world has ever known from the very beginning when God created the world until the present time. Nor will there ever be anything like it again.

Amos 4:13

God is the one who made the mountains and created the winds. He makes his thoughts known to people; he changes day into night. He walks on the heights of the earth. This is his name: the Lord God Almighty!

Daniel 9:12

You did what you said you would do to us and our rulers. You punished Jerusalem more severely than any other city on earth,

Jeremiah 13:16

Honor the Lord, your God, before he brings darkness, and you stumble on the mountains; before he turns into deep darkness the light you hoped for.

Psalm 97:2

Clouds and darkness surround him; he rules with righteousness and justice.

Psalm 10:6

They say to themselves, “We will never fail; we will never be in trouble.”

Deuteronomy 32:7

“Think of the past, of the time long ago; ask your parents to tell you what happened, ask the old people to tell of the past.

Exodus 20:21

But the people continued to stand a long way off, and only Moses went near the dark cloud where God was.

Exodus 10:14

They came in swarms and settled over the whole country. It was the largest swarm of locusts that had ever been seen or that ever would be seen again.

Exodus 10:6

They will fill your palaces and the houses of all your officials and all your people. They will be worse than anything your ancestors ever saw.’” Then Moses turned and left.

Matthew 24:21

For the trouble at that time will be far more terrible than any there has ever been, from the beginning of the world to this very day. Nor will there ever be anything like it again.

Revelation 9:2

The star opened the abyss, and smoke poured out of it, like the smoke from a large furnace; the sunlight and the air were darkened by the smoke from the abyss.

Lamentations 1:12

“Look at me!” she cries to everyone who passes by. “No one has ever had pain like mine, Pain that the Lord brought on me in the time of his anger.

Ezekiel 32:7

When I destroy you, I will cover the sky and blot out the stars. The sun will hide behind the clouds, and the moon will give no light.

Ezekiel 34:12

in the same way as shepherds take care of their sheep that were scattered and are brought together again. I will bring them back from all the places where they were scattered on that dark, disastrous day.

Ezekiel 38:9

He and his army and the many nations with him will attack like a storm and cover the land like a cloud.”

Jeremiah 13:6

Some time later the Lord told me to go back to the Euphrates and get the shorts.

Joel 3:4

“What are you trying to do to me, Tyre, Sidon, and all of Philistia? Are you trying to pay me back for something? If you are, I will quickly pay you back!

Zephaniah 1:7

The day is near when the Lord will sit in judgment; so be silent in his presence. The Lord is preparing to sacrifice his people and has invited enemies to plunder Judah.

Zechariah 14:6

When that time comes, there will no longer be cold or frost,