Joel 2:10

The eretz shall quake before them; 1 the Shomayim shall tremble; 1 the shemesh and the yarei'ach shall be dark, 1 and the kokhavim shall withdraw their shining; 1

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

The earth shall quake before them; the heavens shall tremble: the sun and the moon shall be dark, and the stars shall withdraw their shining:

In Context

9They shall run to and fro in the ir (city); 1 they shall run upon the chomah, 1 they shall climb up into the batim (houses); 1 they shall enter in at the windows like the ganav. 1

11And Hashem shall utter His voice before His army; 1 His machaneh (camp) is very great; 1 for the executor of His devar (word, command) is strong; 1 for the Yom Hashem is gadol and very terrible; 1 and who can endure it? 1

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Cross References

Psalms 114:7Tremble, thou earth, at the presence of Hashem, 1 at the presence of Elohei Ya'akov; 1

Isaiah 34:4And kol Tz'va HaShomayim (all the host of heaven) shall be dissolved, 1 and the Shomayim shall be rolled up like a sefer; 1 and all their tz'va shall fall, 1 like the aleh (leaf) falleth from the gefen, 1 like that falling from the te'enah (fig tree). 1

Ezekiel 32:7And when I shall put out thy light, 1 I will cover the Shomayim, 1 and make the kokhavim thereof dark; 1 I will cover the shemesh with an anan (cloud), 1 and the yarei'ach (moon) shall not give her light. 1

Nahum 1:5The mountains quake before Hashem, 1 and the hills melt away, 1 and ha'aretz heaveth at His presence, 1 yea, tevel (the world), and all that dwell therein. 1

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 →

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