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.

Anyone who is caught will be stabbed to death.

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.

I looked at the earth---it was a barren waste; at the sky---there was no light.

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.

"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.

At noon the whole country was covered with darkness, which lasted for three hours.

"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.

But the heavens and the earth that now exist are being preserved by the same command of God, in order to be destroyed by fire. They are being kept for the day when godless people will be judged and destroyed.

But the Day of the Lord will come like a thief. On that Day the heavens will disappear with a shrill noise, the heavenly bodies will burn up and be destroyed, and the earth with everything in it will vanish.

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.

Then the fourth angel poured out his bowl on the sun, and it was allowed to burn people with its fiery heat.

On that day the LORD Almighty will humble everyone who is powerful, everyone who is proud and conceited.

He will level the high mountains and hills,

He will sink even the largest and most beautiful ships.

(SEE 2:17)

When that day comes, they will throw away the gold and silver idols they have made, and abandon them to the moles and the bats.

This is the time when the LORD will rescue Zion and take vengeance on her enemies.

Blow the trumpet; sound the alarm on Zion, God's sacred hill. Tremble, people of Judah! The day of the LORD is coming soon.

Thousands and thousands are in the Valley of Judgment. It is there that the day of the LORD will soon come.

before you are driven away like chaff blown by the wind, before the burning anger of the LORD comes upon you, before the day when he shows his fury.

Turn to the LORD, all you humble people of the land, who obey his commands. Do what is right, and humble yourselves before the LORD. Perhaps you will escape punishment on the day when the LORD shows his anger.

"But before the great and terrible day of the LORD comes, I will send you the prophet Elijah.

you are to hand this man over to Satan for his body to be destroyed, so that his spirit may be saved in the Day of the Lord.

For you yourselves know very well that the Day of the Lord will come as a thief comes at night.

But the Day of the Lord will come like a thief. On that Day the heavens will disappear with a shrill noise, the heavenly bodies will burn up and be destroyed, and the earth with everything in it will vanish.