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Joel 2:31

Joel chapter 2 · verse 31 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and terrible day of Jehovah cometh.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the Lord come.

ASV

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.

Context

v.30And I will show wonders in the heavens and in the earth: blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.

v.31This passage

v.32And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of Jehovah shall be delivered; for in mount Zion and in Jerusalem there shall be those that escape, as Jehovah hath said, and among the remnant those whom Jehovah doth call.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Malachi 4:1

    For, behold, the day cometh, it burneth as a furnace; and all the proud, and all that work wickedness, shall be stubble; and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith Jehovah of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.

  • Matthew 27:45

    Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land until the ninth hour.

  • Revelation 6:12

    And I saw when he opened the sixth seal, and there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the whole moon became as blood;

  • Isaiah 13:9

    Behold, the day of Jehovah cometh, cruel, with wrath and fierce anger; to make the land a desolation, and to destroy the sinners thereof out of it.

  • Joel 3:1

    For, behold, in those days, and in that time, when I shall bring back the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem,

  • Matthew 24:29

    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: