KJV King James Version
The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the LORD come.
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Joel 2:31
The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the LORD come.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
The sun will be turned to darkness and the moon to blood before the coming of the great and awesome Day of the LORD.
WEB World English Bible
The sun will be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and terrible day of Yahweh comes.
ASV American Standard Version
The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and terrible day of Jehovah cometh.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
The sun is turned to darkness, and the moon to blood, Before the coming of the day of Jehovah, The great and the fearful.
Surrounding context — Joel 2
28 And it shall come to pass afterward, [that] I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions:
29 And also upon the servants and upon the handmaids in those days will I pour out my spirit.
30 And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.
31 The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the LORD come.
32 And it shall come to pass, [that] whosoever shall call on the name of the LORD shall be delivered: for in mount Zion and in Jerusalem shall be deliverance, as the LORD hath said, and in the remnant whom the LORD shall call.
Cross-references
Revelation 6:12-13And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood;Matthew 24:29Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:Malachi 4:1For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.Malachi 4:5Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD:Joel 3:15The sun and the moon shall be darkened, and the stars shall withdraw their shining.Zephaniah 1:14-16The great day of the LORD [is] near, [it is] near, and hasteth greatly, [even] the voice of the day of the LORD: the mighty man shall cry there bitterly.Mark 13:24-25But in those days, after that tribulation, the sun shall be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light,Joel 2:10The earth shall quake before them; the heavens shall tremble: the sun and the moon shall be dark, and the stars shall withdraw their shining:Isaiah 13:9-10Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it.Luke 21:25And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring;Joel 3:1For, behold, in those days, and in that time, when I shall bring again the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem,Matthew 27:45Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land unto the ninth hour.Isaiah 34:4-5And all the host of heaven shall be dissolved, and the heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll: and all their host shall fall down, as the leaf falleth off from the vine, and as a falling [fig] from the fig tree.
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