Bible Cross References
Alas
Joel 2:2
It will be a dark and gloomy day, a black and cloudy day. The great army of locusts advances like darkness spreading over the mountains. There has never been anything like it, and there never will be again.
Jeremiah 30:7
A terrible day is coming; no other day can compare with it--- a time of distress for my people, but they will survive."
Amos 5:16-18
16
And so the Sovereign LORD Almighty says, "There will be wailing and cries of sorrow in the city streets. Even farmers will be called to mourn the dead along with those who are paid to mourn.
17
There will be wailing in all the vineyards. All this will take place because I am coming to punish you." The LORD has spoken.
18
How terrible it will be for you who long for the day of the LORD! What good will that day do you? For you it will be a day of darkness and not of light.
the day of
Joel 2:1
Blow the trumpet; sound the alarm on Zion, God's sacred hill. Tremble, people of Judah! The day of the LORD is coming soon.
Psalm 37:13
But the Lord laughs at wicked people, because he knows they will soon be destroyed.
Isaiah 13:6-9
6
Howl in pain! The day of the LORD is near, the day when the Almighty brings destruction.
7
Everyone's hands will hang limp, and everyone's courage will fail.
8
They will all be terrified and overcome with pain, like the pain of a woman in labor. They will look at each other in fear, and their faces will burn with shame.
9
The day of the LORD is coming---that cruel day of his fierce anger and fury. The earth will be made a wilderness, and every sinner will be destroyed.
Ezekiel 7:2-12
2
"Mortal man," he said, "this is what I, the Sovereign LORD, am saying to the land of Israel: This is the end for the whole land!
3
"Israel, the end has come. You will feel my anger, because I am judging you for what you have done. I will pay you back for all your disgusting conduct.
4
I will not spare you or show you any mercy. I am going to punish you for the disgusting things you have done, so that you will know that I am the LORD."
5
This is what the Sovereign LORD is saying: "One disaster after another is coming on you.
6
It's all over. This is the end. You are finished.
7
The end is coming for you people who live in the land. The time is near when there will be no more celebrations at the mountain shrines, only confusion.
8
"Very soon now you will feel all the force of my anger. I am judging you for what you have done, and I will pay you back for all your disgusting conduct.
9
I will not spare you or show you any mercy. I am going to punish you for the disgusting things you have done, so that you will know that I am the LORD and that I am the one who punishes you."
10
The day of disaster is coming. Violence is flourishing. Pride is at its height.
11
Violence produces more wickedness. Nothing of theirs will remain, nothing of their wealth, their splendor, or their glory.
12
The time is coming. The day is near when buying and selling will have no more meaning, because God's punishment will fall on everyone alike.
Ezekiel 12:22-28
22
"Mortal man," he said, "why do the people of Israel repeat this proverb: 'Time goes by, and predictions come to nothing'?
23
Now tell them what I, the Sovereign LORD, have to say about that. I will put an end to that proverb. It won't be repeated in Israel any more. Tell them instead: The time has come, and the predictions are coming true!
24
"Among the people of Israel there will be no more false visions or misleading prophecies.
25
I, the LORD, will speak to them, and what I say will be done. There will be no more delay. In your own lifetime, you rebels, I will do what I have warned you I would do. I have spoken," says the Sovereign LORD.
26
The LORD said to me,
27
"Mortal man, the Israelites think that your visions and prophecies are about the distant future.
28
So tell them that I, the Sovereign LORD, am saying: There will be no more delay. What I have said will be done. I, the Sovereign LORD, have spoken!"
Zephaniah 1:14-18
14
The great day of the LORD is near---very near and coming fast! That day will be bitter, for even the bravest soldiers will cry out in despair!
15
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,
16
a day filled with the sound of war trumpets and the battle cry of soldiers attacking fortified cities and high towers.
17
The LORD says, "I will bring such disasters on the human race that everyone will grope about like someone blind. They have sinned against me, and now their blood will be poured out like water, and their dead bodies will lie rotting on the ground."
18
On the day when the LORD shows his fury, not even all their silver and gold will save them. The whole earth will be destroyed by the fire of his anger. He will put an end---a sudden end---to everyone who lives on earth.
Luke 19:41-44
41
He came closer to the city, and when he saw it, he wept over it,
42
saying, "If you only knew today what is needed for peace! But now you cannot see it!
43
The time will come when your enemies will surround you with barricades, blockade you, and close in on you from every side.
44
They will completely destroy you and the people within your walls; not a single stone will they leave in its place, because you did not recognize the time when God came to save you!"
James 5:9
Do not complain against one another, my friends, so that God will not judge you. The Judge is near, ready to appear.
Revelation 6:17
The terrible day of their anger is here, and who can stand up against it?"