the sun shall be turned to darkness and the moon to blood, before the day of the Lord comes, the great and magnificent day.
But the day of the Lord will come like a thief, and then the heavens will pass away with a roar, and the heavenly bodies will be burned up and dissolved, and the earth and the works that are done on it will be exposed.
“And on that day,” declares the Lord God, “I will make the sun go down at noon and darken the earth in broad daylight.
“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.
For you yourselves are fully aware that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night.
“Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the great and awesome day of the Lord comes.
Blow a trumpet in Zion; sound an alarm on my holy mountain! Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble, for the day of the Lord is coming; it is near,
For the Lord of hosts has a day against all that is proud and lofty, against all that is lifted up—and it shall be brought low; against all the cedars of Lebanon, lofty and lifted up; and against all the oaks of Bashan; against all the lofty mountains, and against all the uplifted hills; against every high tower, and against every fortified wall; against all the ships of Tarshish, and against all the beautiful craft.
But by the same word the heavens and earth that now exist are stored up for fire, being kept until the day of judgment and destruction of the ungodly.
“And there will be signs in sun and moon and stars, and on the earth distress of nations in perplexity because of the roaring of the sea and the waves,
“But in those days, after that tribulation, the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light,
Multitudes, multitudes, in the valley of decision! For the day of the Lord is near in the valley of decision.
The fourth angel poured out his bowl on the sun, and it was allowed to scorch people with fire.
When he opened the sixth seal, I looked, and behold, there was a great earthquake, and the sun became black as sackcloth, the full moon became like blood,
you are to deliver this man to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord.
Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land until the ninth hour.
before the decree takes effect —before the day passes away like chaff— before there comes upon you the burning anger of the Lord, before there comes upon you the day of the anger of the Lord. Seek the Lord, all you humble of the land, who do his just commands; seek righteousness; seek humility; perhaps you may be hidden on the day of the anger of the Lord.
I looked on the earth, and behold, it was without form and void; and to the heavens, and they had no light.
For the Lord has a day of vengeance, a year of recompense for the cause of Zion.
Then the moon will be confounded and the sun ashamed, for the Lord of hosts reigns on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem, and his glory will be before his elders.
Whoever is found will be thrust through, and whoever is caught will fall by the sword.
Behold, the day of the Lord comes, cruel, with wrath and fierce anger, to make the land a desolation and to destroy its sinners from it.
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