Joel 2:2

a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and blackness. Like the dawn overspreading the mountains a great and strong army appears, such as never was of old, nor will ever be in ages to come.

Cross References (24)

  • Joel 1:6 (9)

    For a nation has invaded My land, powerful and without number; its teeth are the teeth of a lion, and its fangs are the

  • Zephaniah 1:14–15 (8)

    The great Day of the LORD is near—near and coming quickly. Listen, the Day of the LORD! Then the cry of the mighty will

  • Amos 5:18–20 (6)

    Woe to you who long for the Day of the LORD! What will the Day of the LORD be for you? It will be darkness and not light

  • Joel 2:10–11 (6)

    Before them the earth quakes; the heavens tremble. The sun and moon grow dark, and the stars lose their brightness.

  • Joel 2:5 (5)

    With a sound like that of chariots they bound over the mountaintops, like the crackling of fire consuming stubble, like

  • Joel 2:25 (4)

    I will repay you for the years eaten by locusts—the swarming locust, the young locust, the destroying locust, and the de

  • Daniel 12:1 (3)

    “At that time Michael, the great prince who stands watch over your people, will rise up. There will be a time of distres

  • Joel 2:31 (3)

    The sun will be turned to darkness and the moon to blood before the coming of the great and awesome Day of the LORD.

  • Joel 3:14–15 (3)

    Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision! For the Day of the LORD is near in the valley of decision.

  • Isaiah 5:30 (3)

    In that day they will roar over it, like the roaring of the sea. If one looks over the land, he will see darkness and di

  • Isaiah 8:22 (3)

    Then they will look to the earth and see only distress and darkness and the gloom of anguish. And they will be driven in

  • Mark 13:19 (2)

    For those will be days of tribulation unseen from the beginning of God’s creation until now, and never to be seen again.

  • Jude 1:13 (2)

    They are wild waves of the sea, foaming up their own shame; wandering stars, for whom blackest darkness has been reserve

  • Psalms 10:6 (2)

    He says to himself, “I will not be moved; from age to age I am free of distress.”

  • Amos 4:13 (2)

    For behold, He who forms the mountains, who creates the wind and reveals His thoughts to man, who turns the dawn to dark

  • Deuteronomy 32:7 (2)

    Remember the days of old; consider the years long past. Ask your father, and he will tell you, your elders, and they wil

  • Exodus 10:14 (2)

    The locusts swarmed across the land and settled over the entire territory of Egypt. Never before had there been so many

  • Hebrews 12:18 (2)

    For you have not come to a mountain that can be touched and that is burning with fire; to darkness, gloom, and storm;

  • Joel 1:2–3 (2)

    Hear this, O elders; and give ear, all who dwell in the land. Has anything like this ever happened in your days or in th

  • Daniel 9:12 (2)

    You have carried out the words spoken against us and against our rulers by bringing upon us a great disaster. For under

  • Psalms 97:2 (2)

    Clouds and darkness surround Him; righteousness and justice are His throne’s foundation.

  • Jeremiah 13:16 (2)

    Give glory to the LORD your God before He brings darkness, before your feet stumble on the dusky mountains. You wait for

  • Exodus 20:21 (2)

    And the people stood at a distance as Moses approached the thick darkness where God was.

  • Exodus 10:6 (2)

    They will fill your houses and the houses of all your officials and every Egyptian—something neither your fathers nor yo