Acts 2:20

New Living Translation

The sun will become dark, and the moon will turn blood red before that great and glorious day of the Lord arrives.

Cross References

Isaiah 13:10

The heavens will be black above them; the stars will give no light. The sun will be dark when it rises, and the moon will provide no light.

Isaiah 13:15

Anyone who is captured will be cut down— run through with a sword.

Isaiah 13:9

For see, the day of the Lord is coming— the terrible day of his fury and fierce anger. The land will be made desolate, and all the sinners destroyed with it.

Isaiah 24:23

Then the glory of the moon will wane, and the brightness of the sun will fade, for the Lord of Heaven’s Armies will rule on Mount Zion. He will rule in great glory in Jerusalem, in the sight of all the leaders of his people.

Isaiah 34:8

For it is the day of the Lord’s revenge, the year when Edom will be paid back for all it did to Israel.

Jeremiah 4:23

I looked at the earth, and it was empty and formless. I looked at the heavens, and there was no light.

Joel 2:1

Sound the trumpet in Jerusalem! Raise the alarm on my holy mountain! Let everyone tremble in fear because the day of the Lord is upon us.

Joel 2:31

The sun will become dark, and the moon will turn blood red before that great and terrible day of the Lord arrives.

Joel 3:14

Thousands upon thousands are waiting in the valley of decision. There the day of the Lord will soon arrive.

Amos 8:9

“In that day,” says the Sovereign Lord, “I will make the sun go down at noon and darken the earth while it is still day.

Malachi 4:5

“Look, I am sending you the prophet Elijah before the great and dreadful day of the Lord arrives.

Matthew 24:29

“Immediately after the anguish of those days, the sun will be darkened, the moon will give no light, the stars will fall from the sky, and the powers in the heavens will be shaken.

Matthew 27:45

At noon, darkness fell across the whole land until three o’clock.

Mark 13:24

“At that time, after the anguish of those days, the sun will be darkened, the moon will give no light,

Luke 21:25

“And there will be strange signs in the sun, moon, and stars. And here on earth the nations will be in turmoil, perplexed by the roaring seas and strange tides.

Acts 2:19

And I will cause wonders in the heavens above and signs on the earth below— blood and fire and clouds of smoke.

Acts 2:21

But everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.’

1 Corinthians 5:5

Then you must throw this man out and hand him over to Satan so that his sinful nature will be destroyed and he himself will be saved on the day the Lord returns.

1 Thessalonians 5:2

For you know quite well that the day of the Lord’s return will come unexpectedly, like a thief in the night.

2 Peter 3:10

But the day of the Lord will come as unexpectedly as a thief. Then the heavens will pass away with a terrible noise, and the very elements themselves will disappear in fire, and the earth and everything on it will be found to deserve judgment.

2 Peter 3:7

And by the same word, the present heavens and earth have been stored up for fire. They are being kept for the day of judgment, when ungodly people will be destroyed.

Revelation 16:8

Then the fourth angel poured out his bowl on the sun, causing it to scorch everyone with its fire.

Revelation 6:12

I watched as the Lamb broke the sixth seal, and there was a great earthquake. The sun became as dark as black cloth, and the moon became as red as blood.