'Day' in the Bible

“So I will kindle a fire on the wall of RabbahAnd it will consume her citadelsAmid war cries on the day of battle,And a storm on the day of tempest.

“Even the bravest among the warriors will flee naked in that day,” declares the Lord.

“For on the day that I punish Israel’s transgressions,I will also punish the altars of Bethel;The horns of the altar will be cut offAnd they will fall to the ground.

He who made the Pleiades and OrionAnd changes deep darkness into morning,Who also darkens day into night,Who calls for the waters of the seaAnd pours them out on the surface of the earth,The Lord is His name.

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;

Will not the day of the Lord be darkness instead of light,Even gloom with no brightness in it?

Do you put off the day of calamity,And would you bring near the seat of violence?

The songs of the palace will turn to wailing in that day,” declares the Lord God. “Many will be the corpses; in every place they will cast them forth in silence.”

“It will come about in that day,” declares the Lord God,“That I will make the sun go down at noonAnd make the earth dark in broad daylight.

“Then I will turn your festivals into mourningAnd all your songs into lamentation;And I will bring sackcloth on everyone’s loinsAnd baldness on every head.And I will make it like a time of mourning for an only son,And the end of it will be like a bitter day.

“In that day the beautiful virginsAnd the young men will faint from thirst.

“In that day I will raise up the fallen booth of David,And wall up its breaches;I will also raise up its ruinsAnd rebuild it as in the days of old;