KJV King James Version
Immediately 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:
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Matthew 24:29
Immediately 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:
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
Immediately after the tribulation of those days: ‘The sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light; the stars will fall from the sky, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken.’
WEB World English Bible
But immediately after the oppression of those days, the sun will be darkened, the moon will not give its light, the stars will fall from the sky, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken;
ASV American Standard Version
But immediately after the tribulation of those days the sun shall 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:
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
‘And immediately after the tribulation of those days, the sun shall be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from the heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken;
Surrounding context — Matthew 24
26 Wherefore if they shall say unto you, Behold, he is in the desert; go not forth: behold, [he is] in the secret chambers; believe [it] not.
27 For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
28 For wheresoever the carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered together.
29 Immediately 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:
30 And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.
31 And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.
32 Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When his branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer [is] nigh:
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These Hebrew/Greek tokens are linked by Strong's number. Click one for its lexicon definition and other occurrences.
εὐθέωςG2112 · eutheōsimmediatelyδὲG1161 · dethenμετὰG3326 · metawith/afterτὴνG3588 · hothe/this/whoθλῖψινG2347 · thlipsispressureτῶνG3588 · hothe/this/whoἡμερῶνG2250 · hēmeradayἐκείνωνG1565 · ekeinosthatὁG3588 · hothe/this/whoἥλιοςG2246 · hēliossunσκοτισθήσεται,G4654 · skotizōto darkenκαὶG2532 · kaiandἡG3588 · hothe/this/whoσελήνηG4582 · selēnēmoonοὐG3756 · ounoδώσειG1325 · didōmito giveτὸG3588 · hothe/this/whoφέγγοςG5338 · phengosbrightnessαὐτῆς,G846 · autosit/s/heκαὶG2532 · kaiandοἱG3588 · hothe/this/whoἀστέρεςG792 · astērstarπεσοῦνταιG4098 · piptōto collapseἀπὸG575 · apoaway fromτοῦG3588 · hothe/this/whoοὐρανοῦ,G3772 · ouranosheavenκαὶG2532 · kaiandαἱG3588 · hothe/this/whoδυνάμειςG1411 · dunamispowerτῶνG3588 · hothe/this/whoοὐρανῶνG3772 · ouranosheavenσαλευθήσονται.G4531 · saleuōto shake
Cross-references
Amos 8:9And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord GOD, that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the clear day:Joel 3:15The sun and the moon shall be darkened, and the stars shall withdraw their shining.Isaiah 13:10For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light: the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine.Mark 13:24-25But in those days, after that tribulation, the sun shall be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light,Isaiah 24:23Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed, when the LORD of hosts shall reign in mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, and before his ancients gloriously.Acts 2:19-20And I will shew wonders in heaven above, and signs in the earth beneath; blood, and fire, and vapour of smoke:Joel 2:30-31And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.Revelation 6:12-17And 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;Isaiah 34:4And 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.2 Peter 3:10But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.Revelation 8:12And the fourth angel sounded, and the third part of the sun was smitten, and the third part of the moon, and the third part of the stars; so as the third part of them was darkened, and the day shone not for a third part of it, and the night likewise.Zephaniah 1:14-15The 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.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:Luke 21:25-26And 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;Amos 5:20[Shall] not the day of the LORD [be] darkness, and not light? even very dark, and no brightness in it?Jeremiah 4:23-28I beheld the earth, and, lo, [it was] without form, and void; and the heavens, and they [had] no light.Ezekiel 32:7-8And when I shall put thee out, I will cover the heaven, and make the stars thereof dark; I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon shall not give her light.Daniel 7:11-12I beheld then because of the voice of the great words which the horn spake: I beheld [even] till the beast was slain, and his body destroyed, and given to the burning flame.
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