Amos 5:18

New Century Version

How terrible it will be for you who want the Lord’s day of judging to come. Why do you want that day to come? It will bring darkness for you, not light.

Cross References

Joel 1:15

What a terrible day it will be! The Lord’s day of judging is near, when punishment will come like a destroying attack from the Almighty.

Joel 2:31

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

Jeremiah 30:7

This will be a terrible day! There will never be another time like this. This is a time of great trouble for the people of Jacob, but they will be saved from it.”

Malachi 4:1

“There is a day coming that will burn like a hot furnace, and all the proud and evil people will be like straw. On that day they will be completely burned up so that not a root or branch will be left,” says the Lord All-Powerful.

Isaiah 9:19

The Lord All-Powerful is angry, so the land will be burned. The people are like fuel for the fire; no one will try to save his brother or sister.

Isaiah 5:30

On that day they will roar like the waves of the sea. And when people look at the land, they will see only darkness and pain; all light will become dark in this thick cloud.

Isaiah 5:19

They say, “Let God hurry; let him do his work soon so we may see it. Let the plan of the Holy One of Israel happen soon so that we will know what it is.”

Joel 2:10

Before them, earth and sky shake. The sun and the moon become dark, and the stars stop shining.

2 Peter 3:4

They will say, “Jesus promised to come again. Where is he? Our fathers have died, but the world continues the way it has been since it was made.”

Ezekiel 12:27

“Human, the people of Israel are saying, ‘The vision that Ezekiel sees is for a time many years from now. He is prophesying about times far away.’

Ezekiel 12:22

“Human, what is this saying you have in the land of Israel: ‘The days go by and every vision comes to nothing’?

2 Peter 3:10

But the day of the Lord will come like a thief. The skies will disappear with a loud noise. Everything in them will be destroyed by fire, and the earth and everything in it will be exposed.

Jeremiah 17:15

The people of Judah keep asking me, “Where is the word from the Lord? Let’s see that message come true!”

Deuteronomy 32:24

They will be starved and sick, destroyed by terrible diseases. I will send them vicious animals and gliding, poisonous snakes.

Isaiah 8:22

They will look around them at their land and see only trouble, darkness, and awful gloom. And they will be forced into the darkness.

Isaiah 13:6

Cry, because the Lord’s day of judging is near; the Almighty is sending destruction.

Jeremiah 13:16

Give glory to the Lord your God before he brings darkness and before you slip and fall on the dark hills. You hope for light, but he will turn it into thick darkness; he will change it into deep gloom.

Joel 2:11

The Lord shouts out orders to his army. His army is very large! Those who obey him are very strong! The Lord’s day of judging is an overwhelming and terrible day. No one can stand up against it!

Obadiah 1:15

“The Lord’s day of judging is coming soon to all the nations. The same evil things you did to other people will happen to you; they will come back upon your own head.

Isaiah 24:18

Anyone who tries to escape from the sound of terror will fall into a hole. Anyone who climbs out of the hole will be caught in a trap. The clouds in the sky will pour out rain, and the foundations of the earth will shake.

Isaiah 58:2

They still come every day looking for me and want to learn my ways. They act just like a nation that does what is right, that obeys the commands of its God. They ask me to judge them fairly. They want God to be near them.