Joel 2:2

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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.

A day of darkness

As

Amos 4:13

A great

Joel 2:5

Joel 1:6

There

General references

Matthew 24:21

Bible References

A day of darkness

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

So the people stood at a distance, while Moses approached the thick cloud where God was.

Clouds and thick darkness surround Him;

Righteousness and justice are the foundation of His throne.

And it will growl over it in that day like the roaring of the sea.
If one looks to the land, behold, there is darkness and distress;
Even the light is darkened by its clouds.

Then they will look to the earth, and behold, distress and darkness, the gloom of anguish; and they will be driven away into darkness.

Give glory to the Lord your God,

Before He brings darkness
And before your feet stumble
On the dusky mountains,
And while you are hoping for light
He makes it into deep darkness,
And turns it into gloom.

Alas, you who are longing for the day of the Lord,
For what purpose will the day of the Lord be to you?
It will be darkness and not light;

Near is the great day of the Lord,
Near and coming very quickly;
Listen, the day of the Lord!

In it the warrior cries out bitterly.

For you have not come to a mountain that can be touched and to a blazing fire, and to darkness and gloom and whirlwind,

wild waves of the sea, casting up their own shame like foam; wandering stars, for whom the black darkness has been reserved forever.

As

For behold, He who forms mountains and creates the wind
And declares to man what are His thoughts,
He who makes dawn into darkness
And treads on the high places of the earth,

The Lord God of hosts is His name.

A great

With a noise as of chariots

They leap on the tops of the mountains,
Like the crackling of a flame of fire consuming the stubble,
Like a mighty people arranged for battle.

For a nation has invaded my land,
Mighty and without number;

Its teeth are the teeth of a lion,

And it has the fangs of a lioness.

There

Hear this, O elders,

And listen, all inhabitants of the land.

Has anything like this happened in your days

Or in your fathers’ days?

Then your houses shall be filled and the houses of all your servants and the houses of all the Egyptians, something which neither your fathers nor your grandfathers have seen, from the day that they came upon the earth until this day.’” And he turned and went out from Pharaoh.

“Now at that time Michael, the great prince who stands guard over the sons of your people, will arise. And there will be a time of distress such as never occurred since there was a nation until that time; and at that time your people, everyone who is found written in the book, will be rescued.

For those days will be a time of tribulation such as has not occurred since the beginning of the creation which God created until now, and never will.

General references

For then there will be a great tribulation, such as has not occurred since the beginning of the world until now, nor ever will.