Amos 5:18

New American Bible - revised edition

Woe to those who yearn for the day of the Lord! What will the day of the Lord mean for you? It will be darkness, not light!

Cross References

Isaiah 13:6

Howl, for the day of the Lord is near; as destruction from the Almighty it comes.

Isaiah 24:18

One who flees at the sound of terror will fall into the pit; One who climbs out of the pit will be caught in the trap. For the windows on high are open and the foundations of the earth shake.

Isaiah 5:19

Who say, “Let him make haste, let him speed his work, that we may see it; On with the plan of the Holy One of Israel! let it come to pass, that we may know it!”

Isaiah 5:30

They will growl over it, on that day, like the growling of the sea, Look to the land— darkness closing in, the light dark with clouds!

Isaiah 58:2

They seek me day after day, and desire to know my ways, Like a nation that has done what is just and not abandoned the judgment of their God; They ask of me just judgments, they desire to draw near to God.

Isaiah 8:22

and will gaze at the earth, But will see only distress and darkness, oppressive gloom, murky, without light. The Promise of Salvation Under a New Davidic King.

Isaiah 9:19

They hack on the right, but remain hungry; they devour on the left, but are not filled. Each devours the flesh of the neighbor;

Jeremiah 13:16

Give glory to the Lord, your God, before he brings darkness; Before your feet stumble on mountains at twilight; Before the light you look for turns to darkness, changes into black clouds.

Jeremiah 17:15

See how they say to me, “Where is the word of the Lord? Let it come to pass!”

Jeremiah 30:7

Ah! How mighty is that day— there is none like it! A time of distress for Jacob, though he shall be saved from it.

Ezekiel 12:22

Son of man, what is this proverb you have in the land of Israel: “The days drag on, and every vision fails”?

Ezekiel 12:27

Son of man, listen! The house of Israel is saying, “The vision he sees is a long time off; he prophesies for distant times!”

Joel 1:15

O! The day! For near is the day of the Lord, like destruction from the Almighty it is coming!

Joel 2:10

Before them the earth trembles; the heavens shake; Sun and moon are darkened, and the stars withhold their brightness.

Joel 2:11

The Lord raises his voice at the head of his army; How immense is his host! How numerous those who carry out his command! How great is the day of the Lord! Utterly terrifying! Who can survive it?

Obadiah 1:15

Near is the day of the Lord against all the nations! As you have done, so will it be done to you, your conduct will come back upon your own head;

Deuteronomy 32:24

Emaciating hunger and consuming fever and bitter pestilence, And the teeth of wild beasts I will send among them, with the venom of reptiles gliding in the dust.

2 Peter 3:10

But the day of the Lord will come like a thief, and then the heavens will pass away with a mighty roar and the elements will be dissolved by fire, and the earth and everything done on it will be found out. Exhortation to Preparedness.

2 Peter 3:4

and saying, “Where is the promise of his coming? From the time when our ancestors fell asleep, everything has remained as it was from the beginning of creation.”