Isaiah 13:9

13:9 Look, the Lord’s day of judgment ¹  is coming;

it is a day of cruelty and savage, raging anger, ² 

destroying ³  the earth ⁴ 

and annihilating its sinners.

Isaiah 13:15

13:15 Everyone who is caught will be stabbed;

everyone who is seized ⁵  will die ⁶  by the sword.

Isaiah 24:23

24:23 The full moon will be covered up, ⁷ 

the bright sun ⁸  will be darkened; ⁹ 

for the Lord who commands armies will rule ¹⁰ 

on Mount Zion in Jerusalem ¹¹ 

in the presence of his assembly, in majestic splendor. ¹² 

Jeremiah 4:23

4:23 “I looked at the land and saw ¹³  that it was an empty wasteland. ¹⁴ 

I looked up at the sky, and its light had vanished.

Amos 8:9

8:9 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. ¹⁵ 

Matthew 24:29

The Arrival of the Son of Man

24:29 “Immediately ¹⁶  after the suffering ¹⁷  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. ¹⁸ 

Matthew 27:45

Jesus’ Death

27:45 Now from noon until three, ¹⁹  darkness came over all the land. ²⁰ 

Mark 13:24

The Arrival of the Son of Man

13:24 “But in those days, after that suffering, ²¹  the sun will be darkened and the moon will not give its light;

Luke 21:25

The Arrival of the Son of Man

21:25 “And there will be signs in the sun and moon and stars, ²²  and on the earth nations will be in distress, ²³  anxious ²⁴  over the roaring of the sea and the surging waves.

Luke 21:2

21:2 He also saw a poor widow put in two small copper coins. ²⁵ 

Luke 3:7

3:7 So John ²⁶  said to the crowds ²⁷  that came out to be baptized by him, “You offspring of vipers! ²⁸  Who warned you to flee ²⁹  from the coming wrath?

Luke 3:10

3:10 So ³⁰  the crowds were asking ³¹  him, “What then should we do?”

Revelation 6:12

6:12 Then ³²  I looked when the Lamb opened the sixth seal, and a huge ³³  earthquake took place; the sun became as black as sackcloth made of hair, ³⁴  and the full moon became blood red; ³⁵ 

Revelation 16:8

16:8 Then ³⁶  the fourth angel ³⁷  poured out his bowl on the sun, and it was permitted to scorch people ³⁸  with fire.

[13:9]  ¹ tn Heb “the day of the Lord.”

[13:9]  ² tn Heb “[with] cruelty, and fury, and rage of anger.” Three synonyms for “anger” are piled up at the end of the line to emphasize the extraordinary degree of divine anger that will be exhibited in this judgment.

[13:9]  ³ tn Heb “making desolate.”

[13:9]  ⁴ tn Or “land” (KJV, NAB, NASB, NIV, NLT).

[13:15]  ⁵ tn Heb “carried off,” i.e., grabbed from the fleeing crowd. See HALOT 764 s.v. ספה.

[13:15]  ⁶ tn Heb “will fall” (so KJV, NIV, NRSV); NLT “will be run through with a sword.”

[24:23]  ⁷ tn Heb “will be ashamed.”

[24:23]  ⁸ tn Or “glow of the sun.”

[24:23]  ⁹ tn Heb “will be ashamed” (so NCV).

[24:23]  ¹⁰ tn Or “take his throne,” “become king.”

[24:23]  ¹¹ map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[24:23]  ¹² tn Heb “and before his elders [in] splendor.”

[4:23]  ¹³ tn Heb “I looked at the land and behold...” This indicates the visionary character of Jeremiah’s description of the future condition of the land of Israel.

[4:23]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “formless and empty.” This is a case of hendiadys (two nouns joined by “and” both describe the same thing): one noun retains its full nominal force, the other functions as an adjective. The words תֹהוּ וָבֹהוּ (tohu vavohu) allude to Gen 1:2, hyperbolically picturing a reversal of creation and return to the original precreation chaos.

[8:9]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “in a day of light.”

[24:29]  ¹⁶ tn Here δέ (de) has not been translated.

[24:29]  ¹⁷ tn Traditionally, “tribulation.”

[24:29]  ¹⁸ sn An allusion to Isa 13:10, 34:4 (LXX); Joel 2:10. The heavens were seen as the abode of heavenly forces, so their shaking indicates distress in the spiritual realm. Although some take the powers as a reference to bodies in the heavens (like stars and planets, “the heavenly bodies,” NIV) this is not as likely.

[27:45]  ¹⁹ tn Grk “from the sixth hour to the ninth hour.”

[27:45]  ²⁰ sn This imagery has parallels to the Day of the Lord: Joel 2:10; Amos 8:9; Zeph 1:15.

[13:24]  ²¹ tn Traditionally, “tribulation.”

[21:25]  ²² sn Signs in the sun and moon and stars are cosmic signs that turn our attention to the end and the Son of Man’s return for the righteous. OT imagery is present: See Isa 13:9-10; 24:18-20; 34:4; Ezek 32:7-8; Joel 2:1, 30-31; 3:15.

[21:25]  ²³ tn Grk “distress of nations.”

[21:25]  ²⁴ tn Or “in consternation” (L&N 32.9).

[21:2]  ²⁵ sn These two small copper coins were lepta (sing. “lepton”), the smallest and least valuable coins in circulation in Palestine, worth one-half of a quadrans or 1/128 of a denarius, or about six minutes of an average daily wage. This was next to nothing in value.

[3:7]  ²⁶ tn Grk “he”; the referent (John) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[3:7]  ²⁷ sn The crowds. It is interesting to trace references to “the crowd” in Luke. It is sometimes noted favorably, other times less so. The singular appears 25 times in Luke while the plural occurs 16 times. Matt 3:7 singles out the Sadducees and Pharisees here.

[3:7]  ²⁸ tn Or “snakes.”

[3:7]  ²⁹ sn The rebuke “Who warned you to flee…?” compares the crowd to snakes who flee their desert holes when the heat of a fire drives them out.

[3:10]  ³⁰ tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “so” to indicate the consequential nature of the people’s response.

[3:10]  ³¹ tn Though this verb is imperfect, in this context it does not mean repeated, ongoing questions, but simply a presentation in vivid style as the following verbs in the other examples are aorist.

[6:12]  ³² tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “then” to indicate the implied sequence of events within the vision.

[6:12]  ³³ tn Or “powerful”; Grk “a great.”

[6:12]  ³⁴ tn Or “like hairy sackcloth” (L&N 8.13).

[6:12]  ³⁵ tn Grk “like blood,” understanding αἷμα (aima) as a blood-red color rather than actual blood (L&N 8.64).

[16:8]  ³⁶ tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “then” to indicate the implied sequence of events within the vision.

[16:8]  ³⁷ tn Grk “the fourth”; the referent (the fourth angel) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[16:8]  ³⁸ tn Grk “men,” but this is a generic use of ἄνθρωπος (anqrwpo") and refers to both men and women.