27 Bible Verses about Solar Eclipse

"And there will be signs in the sun and moon and stars, and on the earth nations will be in distress, anxious over the roaring of the sea and the surging waves.

The sun will be changed to darkness and the moon to blood before the great and glorious day of the Lord comes.

When the sun went down, Abram fell sound asleep, and great terror overwhelmed him.

"Immediately after the suffering of those days, the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light; the stars will fall from heaven, and the powers of heaven will be shaken.

In that day," says the sovereign Lord, "I will make the sun set at noon, and make the earth dark in the middle of the day.

The day the Lord delivered the Amorites over to the Israelites, Joshua prayed to the Lord before Israel: "O sun, stand still over Gibeon! O moon, over the Valley of Aijalon!"

Then the fourth angel blew his trumpet, and a third of the sun was struck, and a third of the moon, and a third of the stars, so that a third of them were darkened. And there was no light for a third of the day and for a third of the night likewise.

The sunlight will be turned to darkness and the moon to the color of blood, before the day of the Lord comes -- that great and terrible day!

This is what the Lord says, the Holy One of Israel, the one who formed him, concerning things to come: "How dare you question me about my children! How dare you tell me what to do with the work of my own hands!

For this is what the Lord says, the one who created the sky -- he is the true God, the one who formed the earth and made it; he established it, he did not create it without order, he formed it to be inhabited -- "I am the Lord, I have no peer.

Look, I will make the shadow go back ten steps on the stairs of Ahaz." And then the shadow went back ten steps.

Now when it was noon, darkness came over the whole land until three in the afternoon.

Now from noon until three, darkness came over all the land.

I will give you hidden treasures, riches stashed away in secret places, so you may recognize that I am the Lord, the one who calls you by name, the God of Israel.

I do this so people will recognize from east to west that there is no God but me; I am the Lord, I have no peer.

I made the earth, I created the people who live on it. It was me -- my hands stretched out the sky, I give orders to all the heavenly lights.

Turn to me so you can be delivered, all you who live in the earth's remote regions! For I am God, and I have no peer.

This is what the Lord says to his chosen one, to Cyrus, whose right hand I hold in order to subdue nations before him, and disarm kings, to open doors before him, so gates remain unclosed:

I am the Lord, I have no peer, there is no God but me. I arm you for battle, even though you do not recognize me.

"I will go before you and level mountains. Bronze doors I will shatter and iron bars I will hack through.

O sky, rain down from above! Let the clouds send down showers of deliverance! Let the earth absorb it so salvation may grow, and deliverance may sprout up along with it. I, the Lord, create it.

Danger awaits one who says to his father, "What in the world are you fathering?" and to his mother, "What in the world are you bringing forth?"

They will all be ashamed and embarrassed; those who fashion idols will all be humiliated.

All the descendants of Israel will be vindicated by the Lord and will boast in him.

Gather together and come! Approach together, you refugees from the nations! Those who carry wooden idols know nothing, those who pray to a god that cannot deliver.

I solemnly make this oath -- what I say is true and reliable: 'Surely every knee will bow to me, every tongue will solemnly affirm;

I will transform the lame into the nucleus of a new nation, and those far off into a mighty nation. The Lord will reign over them on Mount Zion, from that day forward and forevermore."