Joel 2:2
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2 (A)A day of darkness and gloominess,
A day of clouds and thick darkness,
Like the morning clouds spread over the mountains.
(B)A people come, great and strong,
(C)The like of whom has never been;
Nor will there ever be any such after them,
Even for many successive generations.
Zephaniah 1:14-15
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14 (A)The great day of the Lord is near;
It is near and hastens quickly.
The noise of the day of the Lord is bitter;
There the mighty men shall cry out.
15 (B)That day is a day of wrath,
A day of trouble and distress,
A day of devastation and desolation,
A day of darkness and gloominess,
A day of clouds and thick darkness,
Joel 1:6
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6 For (A)a nation has come up against My land,
Strong, and without number;
(B)His teeth are the teeth of a lion,
And he has the fangs of a [a]fierce lion.
Footnotes
- Joel 1:6 Or lioness
Amos 5:18-20
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18 (A)Woe to you who desire the day of the Lord!
For what good is (B)the day of the Lord to you?
It will be darkness, and not light.
19 It will be (C)as though a man fled from a lion,
And a bear met him!
Or as though he went into the house,
Leaned his hand on the wall,
And a serpent bit him!
20 Is not the day of the Lord darkness, and not light?
Is it not very dark, with no brightness in it?
Joel 2:10-11
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10 (A)The earth quakes before them,
The heavens tremble;
(B)The sun and moon grow dark,
And the stars diminish their brightness.
11 (C)The Lord gives voice before His army,
For His camp is very great;
(D)For strong is the One who executes His word.
For the (E)day of the Lord is great and very terrible;
(F)Who can endure it?
Joel 2:25
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25 “So I will restore to you the years (A)that the swarming [a]locust has eaten,
The crawling locust,
The consuming locust,
And the chewing locust,
My great army which I sent among you.
Footnotes
- Joel 2:25 Exact identity of these locusts unknown
Joel 2:5
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5 (A)With a noise like chariots
Over mountaintops they leap,
Like the noise of a flaming fire that devours the stubble,
Like a strong people set in battle array.
Joel 2:31
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31 (A)The sun shall be turned into darkness,
And the moon into blood,
(B)Before the coming of the great and awesome day of the Lord.
Daniel 12:1
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Prophecy of the End Time
12 “At that time Michael shall stand up,
The great prince who stands watch over the sons of your people;
(A)And there shall be a time of trouble,
Such as never was since there was a nation,
Even to that time.
And at that time your people (B)shall be delivered,
Every one who is found (C)written in the book.
Isaiah 8:22
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22 Then they will look to the earth, and see trouble and darkness, gloom of anguish; and they will be driven into darkness.
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Isaiah 5:30
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30 In that day they will roar against them
Like the roaring of the sea.
And if one (A)looks to the land,
Behold, darkness and [a]sorrow;
And the light is darkened by the clouds.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 5:30 distress
Jude 13
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13 (A)raging waves of the sea, (B)foaming up their own shame; wandering stars (C)for whom is reserved the blackness of darkness forever.
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Hebrews 12:18
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The Glorious Company
18 For you have not come [a]to (A)the mountain that may be touched and that burned with fire, and to blackness and [b]darkness and tempest,
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- Hebrews 12:18 NU to that which
- Hebrews 12:18 NU gloom
Mark 13:19
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19 (A)For in those days there will be tribulation, such as has not been since the beginning of the creation which God created until this time, nor ever shall be.
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Joel 3:14-15
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14 Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision!
For (A)the day of the Lord is near in the valley of decision.
15 The sun and moon will grow dark,
And the stars will diminish their brightness.
Joel 1:2-3
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The Land Laid Waste(A)
2 Hear this, you elders,
And give ear, all you inhabitants of the land!
(B)Has anything like this happened in your days,
Or even in the days of your fathers?
3 (C)Tell your children about it,
Let your children tell their children,
And their children another generation.
Daniel 9:12
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12 And He has (A)confirmed His words, which He spoke against us and against our judges who judged us, by bringing upon us a great disaster; (B)for under the whole heaven such has never been done as what has been done to Jerusalem.
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Jeremiah 13:16
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16 (A)Give glory to the Lord your God
Before He causes (B)darkness,
And before your feet stumble
On the dark mountains,
And while you are (C)looking for light,
He turns it into (D)the shadow of death
And makes it dense darkness.
Psalm 97:2
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2 (A)Clouds and darkness surround Him;
(B)Righteousness and justice are the foundation of His throne.
Psalm 10:6
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Deuteronomy 32:7
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7 “Remember(A) the days of old,
Consider the years of many generations.
(B)Ask your father, and he will show you;
Your elders, and they will tell you:
Exodus 20:21
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21 So the people stood afar off, but Moses drew near (A)the thick darkness where God was.
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Exodus 10:14
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14 And (A)the locusts went up over all the land of Egypt and rested on all the territory of Egypt. They were very severe; (B)previously there had been no such locusts as they, nor shall there be such after them.
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Exodus 10:6
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6 They shall (A)fill your houses, the houses of all your servants, and the houses of all the Egyptians—which neither your fathers nor your fathers’ fathers have seen, since the day that they were on the earth to this day.’ ” And he turned and went out from Pharaoh.
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