Joel 2:10
It is as though they cause the earth to shake and the sky to tremble. The sun and the moon become dark and the stars do not shine because there are so many locusts in the sky.
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Cross References
Psalms 114:7I would reply that it was the presence of the Lord that caused those things to happen! Everyone/Everything on the earth should tremble in the presence of God, whom ◄Jacob worshiped/the Israeli people worship►!
Isaiah 34:4The sky will disappear like [SIM] a scroll that is rolled up and thrown away. Stars will fall from the sky like [SIM] withered leaves fall from grapevines, or like [SIM] shriveled figs fall from fig trees.
Ezekiel 32:7When I get rid of you, I will cover the sky and not allow the stars to shine. I will put a dark cloud in front of the sun, and the moon will not shine.
Joel 2:31In the sky, the sun will become dark and the moon will become as red as [MET] blood. Those things will happen before that great and terrible day when I, Yahweh, appear.
Joel 3:15At that time there will be no light from the sun or moon, and the stars will not shine.
Nahum 1:5When he appears, it is as though the mountains shake and the hills melt; the earth quakes and the people on the earth tremble.
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 →