13 So the sun stood still,(A)
    and the moon stopped,
    till the nation avenged itself on[a] its enemies,

as it is written in the Book of Jashar.(B)

The sun stopped(C) in the middle of the sky and delayed going down about a full day.

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Footnotes

  1. Joshua 10:13 Or nation triumphed over

11 Sun and moon stood still(A) in the heavens
    at the glint of your flying arrows,(B)
    at the lightning(C) of your flashing spear.

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I will make the shadow cast by the sun go back the ten steps it has gone down on the stairway of Ahaz.’” So the sunlight went back the ten steps it had gone down.(A)

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And will not God bring about justice for his chosen ones, who cry out(A) to him day and night? Will he keep putting them off?

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10 Before them the earth shakes,(A)
    the heavens tremble,(B)
the sun and moon are darkened,(C)
    and the stars no longer shine.(D)

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Praise him, sun(A) and moon;
    praise him, all you shining stars.

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18 and he ordered that the people of Judah be taught this lament of the bow (it is written in the Book of Jashar):(A)

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28 Then Samson prayed to the Lord,(A) “Sovereign Lord, remember me. Please, God, strengthen me just once more, and let me with one blow get revenge(B) on the Philistines for my two eyes.”

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14 There has never been a day like it before or since, a day when the Lord listened to a human being. Surely the Lord was fighting(A) for Israel!

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15 The sun and moon will be darkened,
    and the stars no longer shine.(A)

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who made the great lights(A)
His love endures forever.
the sun to govern(B) the day,
His love endures forever.
the moon and stars to govern the night;
His love endures forever.

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Yet their voice[a] goes out into all the earth,
    their words to the ends of the world.(A)
In the heavens God has pitched a tent(B) for the sun.(C)

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 19:4 Septuagint, Jerome and Syriac; Hebrew measuring line

13 A copy of the text of the edict was to be issued as law in every province and made known to the people of every nationality so that the Jews would be ready on that day(A) to avenge themselves on their enemies.

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The fourth angel(A) poured out his bowl on the sun,(B) and the sun was allowed to scorch people with fire.(C) They were seared by the intense heat and they cursed the name of God,(D) who had control over these plagues, but they refused to repent(E) and glorify him.(F)

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23 The moon will be dismayed,
    the sun(A) ashamed;
for the Lord Almighty will reign(B)
    on Mount Zion(C) and in Jerusalem,
    and before its elders—with great glory.(D)

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16 The day is yours, and yours also the night;
    you established the sun and moon.(A)
17 It was you who set all the boundaries(B) of the earth;
    you made both summer and winter.(C)

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“When the princes in Israel take the lead,
    when the people willingly offer(A) themselves—
    praise the Lord!(B)

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11 As they fled before Israel on the road down from Beth Horon to Azekah, the Lord hurled large hailstones(A) down on them,(B) and more of them died from the hail than were killed by the swords of the Israelites.

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“Take vengeance on the Midianites(A) for the Israelites. After that, you will be gathered to your people.(B)

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23 The city does not need the sun or the moon to shine on it, for the glory of God(A) gives it light,(B) and the Lamb(C) is its lamp.

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12 The fourth angel sounded his trumpet, and a third of the sun was struck, a third of the moon, and a third of the stars, so that a third(A) of them turned dark.(B) A third of the day was without light, and also a third of the night.(C)

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12 I watched as he opened the sixth seal. There was a great earthquake.(A) The sun turned black(B) like sackcloth(C) made of goat hair, the whole moon turned blood red,

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10 They called out in a loud voice, “How long,(A) Sovereign Lord,(B) holy and true,(C) until you judge the inhabitants of the earth(D) and avenge our blood?”(E)

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20 The sun will be turned to darkness
    and the moon to blood(A)
    before the coming of the great and glorious day of the Lord.

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45 that you may be children(A) of your Father in heaven. He causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous.(B)

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