Joel 2:31
The sun is turned to darkness, and the moon to blood, Before the coming of the day of Jehovah, The great and the fearful.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
30And I have given wonders in the heavens, and in the earth, Blood and fire, and columns of smoke.
Cross References
Isaiah 34:4And consumed have been all the host of the heavens, And rolled together as a book have been the heavens, And all their hosts do fade, As the fading of a leaf of a vine, And as the fading one of a fig-tree.
Joel 3:1For lo, in those days, and in that time, When I turn back [to] the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem,
Zephaniah 1:14Near [is] the great day of Jehovah, Near, and hasting exceedingly, The noise of the day of Jehovah, Bitterly shriek there doth a mighty one.
Malachi 4:5Lo, I am sending to you Elijah the prophet, Before the coming of the day of Jehovah, The great and the fearful.
Matthew 27:45And from the sixth hour darkness came over all the land unto the ninth hour,
Luke 21:25'And there shall be signs in sun, and moon, and stars, and on the land [is] distress of nations with perplexity, sea and billow roaring;
Matthew Henry on Joel 2:29-32
Promise of Mercy. ( b. c. 720.) 28 And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions: 29 And also upon the servants and upon the handmaids in those days will I pour out my spirit. 30 And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke. 31 The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the… Read the whole commentary →