Amos 5:18

Modern English Version

Woe to you that desire the day of the Lord! Why do you want the day of the Lord? It is darkness, and not light,

Cross References

Isaiah 13:6

Wail, for the day of the Lord is at hand! It shall come as destruction from the Almighty.

Isaiah 24:18

He who flees from the report of disaster shall fall into the pit, and he who comes up out of the midst of the pit shall be taken in the snare. For the windows from on high are open, and the foundations of the earth shake.

Isaiah 5:19

who say, “Let Him make speed and hasten His work, that we may see it; and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw near and come, that we may know it!”

Isaiah 5:30

In that day they shall roar against them like the roaring of the sea. And if one looks to the land— behold, darkness and sorrow; and the light is darkened by the clouds.

Isaiah 58:2

Yet they seek Me daily and delight to know My ways, as a nation that has done righteousness and has not forsaken the ordinance of their God. They ask Me for the ordinances of justice; they take delight in approaching God.

Isaiah 8:22

Then they shall look to the earth and see trouble and darkness, gloom of anguish. And they shall be driven away into darkness.

Isaiah 9:19

Through the wrath of the Lord of Hosts is the land burned up, and the people shall be as fuel for the fire; no man shall spare his brother.

Jeremiah 13:16

Give glory to the Lord your God, before He causes darkness and before your feet stumble on the dark mountains, and while you look for light, He turns it into the shadow of death and makes it gross darkness.

Jeremiah 17:15

Behold, they say to me, “Where is the word of the Lord? Let it come now!”

Jeremiah 30:7

Alas! for that day is great, so that no one is like it; it is even the time of Jacob’s trouble, but he shall be saved out of it.

Ezekiel 12:22

Son of man, what is this proverb that you people have in the land of Israel, saying, “The days are prolonged, and every vision fails”?

Ezekiel 12:27

Son of man, behold, the house of Israel says, “The vision that he sees is for many days to come, and he prophesies of the times that are far off.”

Joel 1:15

Alas, for the day! For the day of the Lord is near, and like devastation from the Almighty it comes.

Joel 2:10

Before them the earth quakes, the heavens shake; the sun and moon darken, and the stars withdraw their radiance.

Joel 2:11

The Lord has sounded His voice before His army, for His camp is exceedingly great; mighty is the one who accomplishes His word. For great is the day of the Lord, and very awe-inspiring. Who can endure it?

Joel 2:31

The sun will be turned to darkness, and the moon to blood, before the great and awe-inspiring day of the Lord comes.

Obadiah 1:15

For the day of the Lord is near upon all the nations; as you have done, it shall be done to you; your deeds shall return on your own head.

Malachi 4:1

Surely the day is coming, burning like an oven; all the proud, yes, all evildoers will be stubble. The day that is coming will burn them up, says the Lord of Hosts, so that it will leave them neither root nor branch.

Deuteronomy 32:24

They will be starved by famine, and consumed by plague and bitter destruction; I will also send the teeth of beasts upon them, with the poison of crawling creatures in the dust.

2 Peter 3:10

But the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night, in which the heavens will pass away with a loud noise, and the elements will be destroyed with intense heat. The earth also and the works that are in it will be burned up.

2 Peter 3:4

and say, “Where is the promise of His coming? For since the fathers fell asleep, all things have continued as they were since the beginning of the creation.”