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Joel 2:31

Joel 2:31 is verse 31 of Joel chapter 2, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.

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.

Or dreadful; LXX glorious

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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.

World English Bible

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

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Joel 2:29–32 · Berean Standard Bible

29 Even on My menservants and maidservants, I will pour out My Spirit in those days.

30 I will show wonders in the heavens and on the earth, blood and fire and columns of smoke.

31 The sun will be turned to darkness and the moon to blood before the coming of the great and awesome Day of the LORD.

32 And everyone who calls on the name of the LORD will be saved; for on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there will be deliverance, as the LORD has promised, among the remnant called by the LORD.

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Cross-references

The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

Joel 2:10

Before them the earth quakes; the heavens tremble. The sun and moon grow dark, and the stars lose their brightness.

Joel 3:1

“Yes, in those days and at that time, when I restore Judah and Jerusalem from captivity,

Joel 3:15

The sun and moon will grow dark, and the stars will no longer shine.

Isaiah 13:9

Behold, the Day of the LORD is coming— cruel, with fury and burning anger— to make the earth a desolation and to destroy the sinners within it.

Isaiah 13:10

For the stars of heaven and their constellations will not give their light. The rising sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light.

Isaiah 34:4

All the stars of heaven will be dissolved. The skies will be rolled up like a scroll, and all their stars will fall like withered leaves from the vine, like foliage from the fig tree.

Isaiah 34:5

When My sword has drunk its fill in the heavens, then it will come down upon Edom, upon the people I have devoted to destruction.

Matthew 24:29

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.’

Matthew 27:45

From the sixth hour until the ninth hour darkness came over all the land.

Mark 13:24

But in those days, after that tribulation: ‘The sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light;

Mark 13:25

the stars will fall from the sky, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken.’

Luke 21:25

There will be signs in the sun and moon and stars, and on the earth dismay among the nations, bewildered by the roaring of the sea and the surging of the waves.

Revelation 6:12

And when I saw the Lamb open the sixth seal, there was a great earthquake, and the sun became black like sackcloth of goat hair, and the whole moon turned blood red,

Revelation 6:13

and the stars of the sky fell to the earth like unripe figs dropping from a tree shaken by a great wind.

Zephaniah 1:14

The great Day of the LORD is near— near and coming quickly. Listen, the Day of the LORD! Then the cry of the mighty will be bitter.

Zephaniah 1:15

That day will be a day of wrath, a day of trouble and distress, a day of destruction and desolation, a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and blackness,

Zephaniah 1:16

a day of horn blast and battle cry against the fortified cities, and against the high corner towers.

Malachi 4:1

“For behold, the day is coming, burning like a furnace, when all the arrogant and every evildoer will be stubble; the day is coming when I will set them ablaze,” says the LORD of Hosts. “Not a root or branch will be left to them.”

Malachi 4:5

Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and awesome Day of the LORD.

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