Joel Chapter 3 verse 15 Holy Bible
The sun and the moon are darkened, and the stars withdraw their shining.
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Get your plough-blades hammered into swords, and your vine-knives into spears: let the feeble say, I am strong.
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The sun and the moon shall be darkened, and the stars shall withdraw their shining.
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The sun and the moon shall be darkened, and the stars shall withdraw their shining.
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The sun and the moon are darkened, And the stars withdraw their shining."
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Sun and moon have been black, And stars have gathered up their shining.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerses 15-17. - These verses picture the accompaniments of the judgment, yet not the judgment itself. Verse 15. - The sun and the moon shall be darkened, and the stars shall withdraw their shining. The densely packed masses are already in the valley of decision, awaiting the judgment about to be executed upon them. But before the judgment actually bursts upon them, and in preparation for it, the sky is overcast; darkness, as a portent of the approaching storm, envelops them; the lights of heaven are put out. The pitchy darkness of a night in which neither moon nor stars appear is sufficiently dismal and awful; still more terrible, if possible, is darkness in the daytime, when the light of the sun is turned into blackness. The first accompaniment of the storm is addressed to the eye, and consists in the extinguishing of the greater light which rules the day, and the lesser lights which rule the night. The next accompaniment of the coming tempest is addressed to the ear, and consists in the voice of the Lord rolling in terrific peals along the heavens - the voice of the Lord like the roaring of a lion ready to pounce upon its prey: the utterance of the Divine voice when the God of glory thundereth. The third accompaniment is yet more awe-inspiring., consisting in a convulsion that pervades both earth and sky; the whole frame of nature shakes; the earthquake's shock, so frightful to bird and beast and man, has a corresponding agitation in the heavens.
