Joel 2:10
The earth is troubled before them and the heavens are shaking: the sun and the moon have become dark, and the stars keep back their shining:
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Psalms 114:7Be troubled, O earth, before the Lord, before the God of Jacob;
Isaiah 34:4And the heavens will be rolled together like the roll of a book: and all their army will be gone, like a dead leaf from the vine, or a dry fruit from the fig-tree.
Ezekiel 32:7And when I put out your life, the heaven will be covered and its stars made dark; I will let the sun be covered with a cloud and the moon will not give her light.
Joel 3:15\3:10\Get your plough-blades hammered into swords, and your vine-knives into spears: let the feeble say, I am strong.
Nahum 1:5The mountains are shaking because of him, and the hills flowing away; the earth is falling to bits before him, the world and all who are in it.
Matthew Henry on Joel 2:2-12
Threatenings of Judgment. ( b. c. 720.) 1 Blow ye the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy mountain: let all the inhabitants of the land tremble: for the day of the Lord cometh, for it is nigh at hand; 2 A day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds and of thick darkness, as the morning spread upon the mountains: a great people and a strong; there hath not been ever the like, neither shall be any more after it, even to the years of many generations. 3 A fire devoureth before them; and behind them… Read the whole commentary →