Joel 2:2

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and thick darkness! Like blackness spread upon the mountains, a great and powerful army comes; their like has never been from of old, nor will be again after them in ages to come.

Cross References

Psalm 10:6

They think in their heart, “We shall not be moved; throughout all generations we shall not meet adversity.”

Psalm 97:2

Clouds and thick darkness are all around him; righteousness and justice are the foundation of his throne.

Exodus 10:14

The locusts came upon all the land of Egypt and settled on the whole country of Egypt, such a dense swarm of locusts as had never been before nor ever shall be again.

Exodus 10:6

They shall fill your houses and the houses of all your officials and of all the Egyptians—something that neither your parents nor your grandparents have seen, from the day they came on earth to this day.” Then he turned and went out from Pharaoh.

Exodus 20:21

Then the people stood at a distance, while Moses drew near to the thick darkness where God was.

Isaiah 5:30

They will roar over it on that day, like the roaring of the sea. And if one look to the land— only darkness and distress; and the light grows dark with its clouds.

Isaiah 8:22

or they will look to the earth, but they will see only distress and darkness, the gloom of anguish, and they will be thrust into thick darkness.

Jeremiah 13:16

Give glory to the Lord your God before he brings darkness and before your feet stumble on the mountains at twilight; while you look for light, he turns it into gloom and makes it deep darkness.

Jeremiah 13:6

And after many days the Lord said to me, “Go now to the Euphrates, and take from there the loincloth that I commanded you to hide there.”

Lamentations 1:12

Is it nothing to you, all you who pass by? Look and see if there is any sorrow like my sorrow, which was brought upon me, which the Lord inflicted on the day of his fierce anger.

Ezekiel 32:7

When I blot you out, I will cover the heavens and make their stars dark; I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon shall not give its light.

Ezekiel 34:12

As shepherds sort out their flocks when they are among scattered sheep, so I will sort out my sheep. I will rescue them from all the places to which they have been scattered on a day of clouds and thick darkness.

Ezekiel 38:9

You shall advance, coming on like a storm; you shall be like a cloud covering the land, you and all your troops and many peoples with you.

Daniel 12:1

“At that time Michael, the great prince, the protector of your people, shall arise. There shall be a time of anguish such as has never occurred since nations first came into existence. But at that time your people shall be delivered, everyone who is found written in the book.

Daniel 9:12

He has confirmed his words that he spoke against us and against our rulers by bringing upon us a calamity so great that what has been done against Jerusalem has never before been done under the whole heaven.

Joel 1:6

For a nation has invaded my land, powerful and innumerable; its teeth are lions’ teeth, and it has the fangs of a lioness.

Joel 2:25

I will repay you for the years that the swarming locust has eaten, the hopper, the destroyer, and the cutter, my great army that I sent against you.

Joel 2:31

The sun shall be turned to darkness and the moon to blood, before the great and terrible day of the Lord comes.

Joel 2:5

As with the rumbling of chariots, they leap on the tops of the mountains, like the crackling of a flame of fire devouring the stubble, like a powerful army drawn up for battle.

Joel 3:4

What are you to me, O Tyre and Sidon, and all the regions of Philistia? Are you paying me back for something? If you are paying me back, I will turn your deeds back upon your own heads swiftly and speedily.

Amos 4:13

For the one who forms the mountains, creates the wind, reveals his thoughts to mortals, makes the morning darkness, and treads on the heights of the earth— the Lord, the God of hosts, is his name!

Zephaniah 1:7

Be silent before the Lord God, for the day of the Lord is at hand! The Lord has prepared a sacrifice; he has consecrated his guests.

Zechariah 14:6

On that day there shall not be either cold or frost.

Matthew 24:21

For at that time there will be great suffering, such as has not been from the beginning of the world until now, no, and never will be.

Mark 13:19

For in those days there will be suffering, such as has not been from the beginning of the creation that God created until now and never will be.

Deuteronomy 32:7

Remember the days of old; consider the years long past; ask your father, and he will inform you, your elders, and they will tell you.

Hebrews 12:18

You have not come to something that can be touched, a blazing fire, and darkness, and gloom, and a tempest,

Jude 1:13

wild waves of the sea, casting up the foam of their own shame; wandering stars, for whom the deepest darkness has been reserved forever.

Revelation 9:2

he opened the shaft of the bottomless pit, and from the shaft rose smoke like the smoke of a great furnace, and the sun and the air were darkened with the smoke from the shaft.