When that day comes, they will roar over Israel as loudly as the sea. Look at this country! Darkness and distress! The light is swallowed by darkness.

A time is coming when the LORD will punish the powers above and the rulers of the earth.

The moon will grow dark, and the sun will no longer shine, for the LORD Almighty will be king. He will rule in Jerusalem on Mount Zion, and the leaders of the people will see his glory.

When I destroy you, I will cover the sky and blot out the stars. The sun will hide behind the clouds, and the moon will give no light.

I will put out all the lights of heaven and plunge your world into darkness. I, the Sovereign LORD, have spoken.

The earth shakes as they advance; the sky trembles. The sun and the moon grow dark, and the stars no longer shine.

The sun will be darkened, and the moon will turn red as blood before the great and terrible day of the LORD comes.

The sun and the moon grow dark, and the stars no longer shine.

The time is coming when I will make the sun go down at noon and the earth grow dark in daytime. I, the Sovereign LORD, have spoken.

I will turn your festivals into funerals and change your glad songs into cries of grief. I will make you shave your heads and wear sackcloth, and you will be like parents mourning for their only child. That day will be bitter to the end.

It will be a day of fury, a day of trouble and distress, a day of ruin and destruction, a day of darkness and gloom, a black and cloudy day,

a day filled with the sound of war trumpets and the battle cry of soldiers attacking fortified cities and high towers.

"Soon after the trouble of those days, the sun will grow dark, the moon will no longer shine, the stars will fall from heaven, and the powers in space will be driven from their courses.

"In the days after that time of trouble the sun will grow dark, the moon will no longer shine,

"There will be strange things happening to the sun, the moon, and the stars. On earth whole countries will be in despair, afraid of the roar of the sea and the raging tides.

And I saw the Lamb break open the sixth seal. There was a violent earthquake, and the sun became black like coarse black cloth, and the moon turned completely red like blood.

The sky disappeared like a scroll being rolled up, and every mountain and island was moved from its place.

Then the fourth angel blew his trumpet. A third of the sun was struck, and a third of the moon, and a third of the stars, so that their light lost a third of its brightness; there was no light during a third of the day and a third of the night also.