For this the earth shall mourn, and the heavens above be black; for I have spoken, I have purposed; I have not relented nor will I turn back.”
Joel 2:31 - Revised Standard Version The sun shall be turned to darkness, and the moon to blood, before the great and terrible day of the Lord comes. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the LORD come. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition The sun shall be turned to darkness and the moon to blood before the great and terrible day of the Lord comes. [Isa. 13:6, 9-11; 24:21-23; Ezek. 32:7-10; Matt. 24:29, 30; Rev. 6:12-17.] American Standard Version (1901) The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and terrible day of Jehovah cometh. Common English Bible The sun will be turned to darkness, and the moon to blood before the great and dreadful day of the LORD comes. Catholic Public Domain Version The sun will be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and terrible day of the Lord shall arrive. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood: before the great and dreadful day of the Lord doth come. |
For this the earth shall mourn, and the heavens above be black; for I have spoken, I have purposed; I have not relented nor will I turn back.”
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.
Blow the trumpet in Zion; sound the alarm on my holy mountain! Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble, for the day of the Lord is coming, it is near,
The earth quakes before them, the heavens tremble. The sun and the moon are darkened, and the stars withdraw their shining.
The Lord utters his voice before his army, for his host is exceedingly great; he that executes his word is powerful. For the day of the Lord is great and very terrible; who can endure it?
a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and thick darkness! Like blackness there is spread upon the mountains a great and powerful people; their like has never been from of old, nor will be again after them through the years of all generations.
“For behold, in those days and at that time, when I restore the fortunes of Judah and Jerusalem,
The sun and the moon are darkened, and the stars withdraw their shining.
“For behold, the day comes, burning like an oven, when all the arrogant and all evildoers will be stubble; the day that comes shall burn them up, says the Lord of hosts, so that it will leave them neither root nor branch.
“Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the great and terrible day of the Lord comes.
“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;
Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land until the ninth hour.
“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,
the sun shall be turned into darkness and the moon into blood, before the day of the Lord comes, the great and manifest day.
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.