Revelation 8:12

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

The fourth angel blew his trumpet, and a third of the sun was struck, and a third of the moon, and a third of the stars, so that a third of their light was darkened; a third of the day was kept from shining and likewise the night.

Cross References

Isaiah 13:10

For the stars of the heavens and their constellations will not give their light; the sun will be dark at its rising, and the moon will not shed its light.

Isaiah 24:23

Then the moon will be abashed and the sun ashamed, for the Lord of hosts will reign on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem, and before his elders he will be glorified.

Jeremiah 4:23

I looked on the earth, and it was complete chaos, and to the heavens, and they had no light.

Joel 2:10

The earth quakes before them; the heavens tremble. The sun and the moon are darkened, and the stars withdraw their shining.

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 3:15

The sun and the moon are darkened, and the stars withdraw their shining.

Amos 8:9

On that day, says the Lord God, I will make the sun go down at noon and darken the earth in broad daylight.

Matthew 24:29

“Immediately after the suffering of those days the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light; the stars will fall from heaven, and the powers of heaven will be shaken.

Matthew 27:45

From noon on, darkness came over the whole land until three in the afternoon.

Mark 13:24

“But in those days, after that suffering, the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light,

Mark 15:33

When it was noon, darkness came over the whole land until three in the afternoon.

Luke 21:25

“There will be signs in the sun, the moon, and the stars and on the earth distress among nations confused by the roaring of the sea and the waves.

Acts 2:20

The sun shall be turned to darkness and the moon to blood, before the coming of the Lord’s great and glorious day.

2 Corinthians 4:4

In their case the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, to keep them from seeing clearly the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.

Revelation 12:4

His tail swept down a third of the stars of heaven and threw them to the earth. Then the dragon stood before the woman who was about to deliver a child, so that he might devour her child as soon as it was born.

Revelation 16:10

The fifth angel poured his bowl on the throne of the beast, and its kingdom was plunged into darkness; people gnawed their tongues in agony

Revelation 6:12

When he broke the sixth seal, I looked, and there was a great earthquake; the sun became black as sackcloth, the full moon became like blood,

Revelation 9:15

So the four angels were released, who had been held ready for the hour, the day, the month, and the year, to kill a third of humankind.

Revelation 9:18

By these three plagues a third of humankind was killed, by the fire and smoke and sulfur coming out of the horses’ mouths.