(A)When I blot you out, (B)I will cover the heavens
    and make their stars dark;
I will cover the sun with a cloud,
    and the moon shall not give its light.

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The Coming of the Son of Man

29 “Immediately after (A)the tribulation of those days (B)the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light, and (C)the stars will fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken.

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31 (A)The sun shall be turned to darkness, (B)and the moon to blood, (C)before the great and awesome day of the Lord comes.

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10 (A)For the stars of the heavens and their constellations
    will not give their light;
(B)the sun will be dark at its rising,
    and the moon will not shed its light.

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15 (A)The sun and the moon are darkened,
    and the stars withdraw their shining.

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(A)a day of darkness and gloom,
    (B)a day of clouds and thick darkness!
Like blackness there is spread upon the mountains
    (C)a great and powerful people;
(D)their like has never been before,
    nor will be again after them
    through the years of all generations.

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    (A)For the day is near,
    (B)the day of the Lord is near;
it will be (C)a day of clouds,
    a time of doom for[a] the nations.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 30:3 Hebrew lacks doom for

(A)All the host of heaven shall rot away,
    and the skies roll up like a scroll.
All their host shall fall,
    as leaves fall from the vine,
    like leaves falling from the fig tree.

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“And on that day,” declares the Lord God,
    (A)“I will make the sun go down at noon
    and darken the earth in broad daylight.

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18 At (A)Tehaphnehes (B)the day shall be dark,
    when I break there the yoke bars of Egypt,
and (C)her proud might shall come to an end in her;
    she shall be covered by a cloud,
    and her daughters shall go into captivity.

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(A)The light of the righteous rejoices,
    but (B)the lamp of the wicked will be put out.

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“Indeed, (A)the light of the wicked is put out,
    and the flame of his fire does not shine.
The light is (B)dark in his tent,
    and his lamp above him is put out.

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The Ninth Plague: Darkness

21 Then the Lord said to Moses, (A)“Stretch out your hand toward heaven, that there may be (B)darkness over the land of Egypt, a darkness to be felt.” 22 So Moses stretched out his hand toward heaven, and there was pitch darkness in all the land of Egypt three days. 23 They did not see one another, nor did anyone rise from his place for three days, but (C)all the people of Israel had light where they lived.

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12 The fourth angel blew his trumpet, and a third of (A)the sun was struck, and a third of the moon, and a third of the stars, so that a third of their light might be darkened, and a third of the day might be kept from shining, and likewise a third of the night.

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12 When he opened the sixth seal, I looked, and behold, (A)there was a great earthquake, and (B)the sun became black as (C)sackcloth, the full moon became like blood, 13 and (D)the stars of the sky fell to the earth (E)as the fig tree sheds its winter fruit when shaken by a gale.

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The Coming of the Son of Man

24 “But in those days, after (A)that tribulation, (B)the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light,

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16 (A)Give glory to the Lord your God
    (B)before he brings darkness,
before your feet stumble
    on the twilight mountains,
and (C)while you look for light
    he turns it into gloom
    and makes it (D)deep darkness.

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