Zephaniah 1:7
New King James Version
7 (A)Be silent in the presence of the Lord God;
(B)For the day of the Lord is at hand,
For (C)the Lord has prepared a sacrifice;
He has [a]invited His guests.
Footnotes
- Zephaniah 1:7 Lit. set apart, consecrated
Habakkuk 2:20
New King James Version
20 “But(A) the Lord is in His holy temple.
Let all the earth keep silence before Him.”
Zechariah 2:13
New King James Version
13 (A)Be silent, all flesh, before the Lord, for He is aroused (B)from His holy habitation!”
Read full chapter
Zephaniah 1:14
New King James Version
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.
Jeremiah 46:10
New King James Version
10 For this is (A)the day of the Lord God of hosts,
A day of vengeance,
That He may avenge Himself on His adversaries.
(B)The sword shall devour;
It shall be [a]satiated and made drunk with their blood;
For the Lord God of hosts (C)has a sacrifice
In the north country by the River Euphrates.
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 46:10 Filled to the full
Isaiah 34:6
New King James Version
6 The (A)sword of the Lord is filled with blood,
It is made [a]overflowing with fatness,
With the blood of lambs and goats,
With the fat of the kidneys of rams.
For (B)the Lord has a sacrifice in Bozrah,
And a great slaughter in the land of Edom.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 34:6 Lit. fat
Matthew 22:4
New King James Version
4 Again, he sent out other servants, saying, ‘Tell those who are invited, “See, I have prepared my dinner; (A)my oxen and fatted cattle are killed, and all things are ready. Come to the wedding.” ’
Read full chapter
Amos 5:18-20
New King James Version
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 2:31
New King James Version
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.
Isaiah 13:6
New King James Version
Isaiah 2:12
New King James Version
12 For the day of the Lord of hosts
Shall come upon everything proud and lofty,
Upon everything lifted up—
And it shall be brought low—
1 Samuel 16:5
New King James Version
5 And he said, “Peaceably; I have come to sacrifice to the Lord. (A)Sanctify[a] yourselves, and come with me to the sacrifice.” Then he consecrated Jesse and his sons, and invited them to the sacrifice.
Read full chapterFootnotes
- 1 Samuel 16:5 Consecrate
Revelation 19:17-18
New King James Version
The Beast and His Armies Defeated
17 Then I saw an angel standing in the sun; and he cried with a loud voice, saying to all the birds that fly in the midst of heaven, (A)“Come and gather together for the [a]supper of the great God, 18 (B)that you may eat the flesh of kings, the flesh of captains, the flesh of mighty men, the flesh of horses and of those who sit on them, and the flesh of all people, [b]free and slave, both small and great.”
Read full chapterFootnotes
- Revelation 19:17 NU, M great supper of God
- Revelation 19:18 NU, M both free
Amos 6:10
New King James Version
10 And when [a]a relative of the dead, with one who will burn the bodies, picks up the [b]bodies to take them out of the house, he will say to one inside the house, “Are there any more with you?”
Then someone will say, “None.”
And he will say, (A)“Hold your tongue! (B)For we dare not mention the name of the Lord.”
Read full chapter
Joel 2:1-2
New King James Version
The Day of the Lord
2 Blow (A)the [a]trumpet in Zion,
And (B)sound an alarm in My holy mountain!
Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble;
For (C)the day of the Lord is coming,
For it is at hand:
2 (D)A day of darkness and gloominess,
A day of clouds and thick darkness,
Like the morning clouds spread over the mountains.
(E)A people come, great and strong,
(F)The like of whom has never been;
Nor will there ever be any such after them,
Even for many successive generations.
Footnotes
- Joel 2:1 ram’s horn
Ezekiel 39:17-20
New King James Version
A Triumphant Festival
17 “And as for you, son of man, thus says the Lord God, (A)‘Speak to every sort of bird and to every beast of the field:
(B)“Assemble yourselves and come;
Gather together from all sides to My (C)sacrificial meal
Which I am sacrificing for you,
A great sacrificial meal (D)on the mountains of Israel,
That you may eat flesh and drink blood.
18 (E)You shall eat the flesh of the mighty,
Drink the blood of the princes of the earth,
Of rams and lambs,
Of goats and bulls,
All of them (F)fatlings of Bashan.
19 You shall eat fat till you are full,
And drink blood till you are drunk,
At My sacrificial meal
Which I am sacrificing for you.
20 (G)You shall be filled at My table
With horses and riders,
(H)With mighty men
And with all the men of war,” says the Lord God.
Ezekiel 7:10
New King James Version
10 ‘Behold, the day!
Behold, it has come!
(A)Doom has gone out;
The rod has blossomed,
Pride has budded.
Ezekiel 7:7
New King James Version
7 (A)Doom has come to you, you who dwell in the land;
(B)The time has come,
A day of trouble is near,
And not of rejoicing in the mountains.
Isaiah 6:5
New King James Version
5 So I said:
“Woe is me, for I am [a]undone!
Because I am a man of (A)unclean lips,
And I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips;
For my eyes have seen the King,
The Lord of hosts.”
Footnotes
- Isaiah 6:5 destroyed, cut off
2 Peter 3:10-12
New King James Version
The Day of the Lord
10 But (A)the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night, in which (B)the heavens will pass away with a great noise, and the elements will melt with fervent heat; both the earth and the works that are in it will be [a]burned up. 11 Therefore, since all these things will be dissolved, what manner of persons ought you to be (C)in holy conduct and godliness, 12 (D)looking for and hastening the coming of the day of God, because of which the heavens will (E)be dissolved, being on fire, and the elements will (F)melt with fervent heat?
Read full chapterFootnotes
- 2 Peter 3:10 NU laid bare, lit. found
Colossians 1:12
New King James Version
12 (A)giving thanks to the Father who has qualified us to be partakers of (B)the inheritance of the saints in the light.
Read full chapter
Philippians 4:5
New King James Version
5 Let your [a]gentleness be known to all men. (A)The Lord is at hand.
Read full chapterFootnotes
- Philippians 4:5 graciousness or forbearance
Romans 9:20
New King James Version
20 But indeed, O man, who are you to reply against God? (A)Will the thing formed say to him who formed it, “Why have you made me like this?”
Read full chapter
Romans 3:19
New King James Version
19 Now we know that whatever (A)the law says, it says to those who are under the law, that (B)every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become [a]guilty before God.
Read full chapterFootnotes
- Romans 3:19 accountable
Luke 14:16-17
New King James Version
16 (A)Then He said to him, “A certain man gave a great supper and invited many, 17 and (B)sent his servant at supper time to say to those who were invited, ‘Come, for all things are now ready.’
Read full chapterScripture taken from the New King James Version®. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
Bible Gateway Recommends
