Joel 2:2

Tree of Life Version

A day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness, as blackness spreads over the mountains. A great and mighty people— from antiquity there was never anything like it, nor after it ever again from generation to generation.

Cross References

Psalm 10:6

He says in his heart: “I’ll never be shaken! From generation to generation nothing bad will happen.”

Psalm 97:2

Clouds and darkness are all around Him. Righteousness and justice are the foundation of His throne.

Exodus 10:14

The locusts came up over all the land of Egypt and rested on the entire territory of Egypt. So dense—there was nothing like it before them, nor will there ever be again.

Exodus 10:6

Your houses will be filled, as will the houses of all your servants and the houses of all the Egyptians, as neither your fathers nor your grandfathers have seen since the day they were on the earth until today!” Then he turned and went out from Pharaoh.

Exodus 20:21

The people stood far off, while Moses drew near to the thick darkness where God was.

Isaiah 5:30

They will roar against them like the roaring of the sea. If one looks to the land, behold, darkness and distress! The light is darkened by the clouds.

Isaiah 8:22

or look to the earth, behold, distress and darkness, the gloom of anguish, and they will be driven into darkness.

Jeremiah 13:16

Give glory to Adonai your God, before it grows dark, and before your feet stumble on mountains at dusk. When you look for light, He turns it into the shadow of death, and turns it into deep darkness.

Jeremiah 13:6

Now it came to pass after many days that Adonai said to me: “Get up, go to Perath, and take the waistband that I commanded you to hide there.”

Lamentations 1:12

“Is it nothing to you, all you who pass by on the road? Look and see! Is any suffering like my suffering that was brought on me, that Adonai has inflicted in the day of His fierce anger?

Ezekiel 32:7

When I extinguish you, I will cover the sky and darken the stars. I will cover the sun with cloud, and the moon will not give her light.

Ezekiel 34:12

As a shepherd seeks out his sheep on the day he is among his scattered flock, so I will seek out My sheep. I will rescue them out of all the places where they have been scattered, on a day of cloud and thick darkness.

Ezekiel 38:9

you will come up, you will come like a storm, you will 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 who stands guard over the sons of your people, will arise. There will be a time of distress such as has never occurred since the beginning of the nation until then. But at that time your people—everyone who is found written in the book—will be delivered.

Daniel 9:12

So He has confirmed His words that he spoke against us and against our rulers who ruled over us by bringing on us a great calamity. Under the whole heaven nothing like this has ever been done to Jerusalem!

Joel 1:6

For a nation has invaded my land. Vast—yes, without number! Its teeth are lion’s teeth, with jaw-teeth of a lioness.

Joel 2:25

“I shall restore to you the years that the locust, the swarming locust, the canker-worm and the caterpillar have eaten— My great army that I sent among you.”

Joel 2:5

Like the clatter of chariots, they leap on the tops of mountains, like crackling flame of fire devouring stubble, like a mighty horde in battle array.

Joel 3:4

The sun will be turned into darkness and the moon into blood, before the great and awesome day of Adonai comes.

Amos 4:13

For behold! He who forms mountains who creates the wind, who declares His thoughts to man, who makes dawn out of darkness, who walks above the heights of the earth—His Name is Adonai Elohei-Tzva’ot!

Zephaniah 1:7

Be silent before Adonai God. For the day of Adonai is at hand! Adonai has prepared a sacrifice, He has consecrated his guests.

Zechariah 14:6

In that day there will be no light, cold or frost.

Matthew 24:21

For then there will be great trouble, such as has not happened since the beginning of the world until now, nor ever will.

Mark 13:19

“For in those days there will be trouble such as has never happened, not since the beginning of the creation which God created until now, and never will.

Deuteronomy 32:7

“Remember the days of antiquity, understand the years across generations. Ask your father and he will tell you, your elders and they will say to you.

Hebrews 12:18

For you have not come to a mountain that can be touched, and to a blazing fire, and to darkness and gloom and storm,

Jude 1:13

wild waves of the sea, foaming up their own shame; wandering stars, for whom the gloom of utter darkness has been reserved forever.

Revelation 9:2

He opened the pit, and smoke rose from the pit like the smoke of a gigantic furnace. The sun and the air were darkened by the smoke from the pit.