Revelation 8:12

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

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 a third of 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 confounded, and the sun ashamed; for the Lord of hosts will reign on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem and before his elders he will manifest his glory.

Jeremiah 4:23

I looked on the earth, and lo, it was waste and void; 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

“And 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 tribulation of those days the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light, and the stars will fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken;

Matthew 27:45

Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land until the ninth hour.

Mark 13:24

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

Mark 15:33

And when the sixth hour had come, there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour.

Luke 21:25

“And there will be signs in sun and moon and stars, and upon the earth distress of nations in perplexity at the roaring of the sea and the waves,

Acts 2:20

the sun shall be turned into darkness and the moon into blood, before the day of the Lord comes, the great and manifest 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 the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the likeness of God.

Revelation 12:4

His tail swept down a third of the stars of heaven, and cast them to the earth. And the dragon stood before the woman who was about to bear a child, that he might devour her child when she brought it forth;

Revelation 16:10

The fifth angel poured his bowl on the throne of the beast, and its kingdom was in darkness; men gnawed their tongues in anguish

Revelation 6:12

When he opened the sixth seal, I looked, and behold, there was a great earthquake; and 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 mankind.

Revelation 9:18

By these three plagues a third of mankind was killed, by the fire and smoke and sulphur issuing from their mouths.