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Joel 1:6
For a nation has invaded our land. There are so many of them they are too numerous to count. Their teeth are like those of a lion; they tear apart their prey like a lioness.
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Joel 2:25
I will make up for the years that the‘ arbeh-locust consumed your crops– the yeleq-locust, the hasil-locust, and the gazam-locust– my great army that I sent against you.
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Amos 5:18-20
Woe to those who wish for the day of the LORD! Why do you want the LORD’s day of judgment to come? It will bring darkness, not light.Disaster will be inescapable, as if a man ran from a lion only to meet a bear, then escaped into a house, leaned his hand against the wall, and was bitten by a poisonous snake.Don’t you realize the LORD’s day of judgment will bring darkness, not light– gloomy blackness, not bright light?
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Zephaniah 1:14-15
The LORD’s great day of judgment is almost here; it is approaching very rapidly! There will be a bitter sound on the LORD’s day of judgment; at that time warriors will cry out in battle.That day will be a day of God’s anger, a day of distress and hardship, a day of devastation and ruin, a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and dark skies,
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Joel 2:10-11
The earth quakes before them; the sky reverberates. The sun and the moon grow dark; the stars refuse to shine.The voice of the LORD thunders as he leads his army. Indeed, his warriors are innumerable; Surely his command is carried out! Yes, the day of the LORD is awesome and very terrifying– who can survive it?
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Joel 2:5
They sound like chariots rumbling over mountain tops, like the crackling of blazing fire consuming stubble, like the noise of a mighty army being drawn up for battle.
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Joel 2:31
The sunlight will be turned to darkness and the moon to the color of blood, before the day of the LORD comes– that great and terrible day!
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Daniel 12:1
“ At that time Michael, the great prince who watches over your people, will arise. There will be a time of distress unlike any other from the nation’s beginning up to that time. But at that time your own people, all those whose names are found written in the book, will escape.
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Jude 1:13
wild sea waves, spewing out the foam of their shame; wayward stars for whom the utter depths of eternal darkness have been reserved.
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Exodus 10:6
They will fill your houses, the houses of your servants, and all the houses of Egypt, such as neither your fathers nor your grandfathers have seen since they have been in the land until this day!’” Then Moses turned and went out from Pharaoh.
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Isaiah 8:22
When one looks out over the land, he sees distress and darkness, gloom and anxiety, darkness and people forced from the land.
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Daniel 9:12
He has carried out his threats against us and our rulers who were over us by bringing great calamity on us– what has happened to Jerusalem has never been equaled under all heaven!
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Psalms 10:6
He says to himself,“ I will never be upended, because I experience no calamity.”
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Exodus 10:14
The locusts went up over all the land of Egypt and settled down in all the territory of Egypt. It was very severe; there had been no locusts like them before, nor will there be such ever again.
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Joel 1:2-3
Listen to this, you elders; pay attention, all inhabitants of the land. Has anything like this ever happened in your whole life or in the lifetime of your ancestors?Tell your children about it, have your children tell their children, and their children the following generation.
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Joel 3:14-15
Crowds, great crowds are in the valley of decision, for the day of the LORD is near in the valley of decision!The sun and moon are darkened; the stars withhold their brightness.
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Deuteronomy 32:7
Remember the ancient days; bear in mind the years of past generations. Ask your father and he will inform you, your elders, and they will tell you.
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Exodus 20:21
The people kept their distance, but Moses drew near the thick darkness where God was.
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Amos 4:13
For here he is! He formed the mountains and created the wind. He reveals his plans to men. He turns the dawn into darkness and marches on the heights of the earth. The LORD, the God who commands armies, is his name!”
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Hebrews 12:18
For you have not come to something that can be touched, to a burning fire and darkness and gloom and a whirlwind
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Psalms 97:2
Dark clouds surround him; equity and justice are the foundation of his throne.
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Isaiah 5:30
At that time they will growl over their prey, it will sound like sea waves crashing against rocks. One will look out over the land and see the darkness of disaster, clouds will turn the light into darkness.
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Mark 13:19
For in those days there will be suffering unlike anything that has happened from the beginning of the creation that God created until now, or ever will happen.
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Jeremiah 13:16
Show the LORD your God the respect that is due him. Do it before he brings the darkness of disaster. Do it before you stumble into distress like a traveler on the mountains at twilight. Do it before he turns the light of deliverance you hope for into the darkness and gloom of exile.