16 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

2 variant units attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.

• Day of the Lord
• Hope
• Judgment

3 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

• 2Pet 3:10 — But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that
• Acts 2:19 — And I will shew wonders in heaven above, and signs in the earth beneath; blood, and fire, and vapour of smoke:
• Acts 2:20 — The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before that great and notable day of the Lord come:
• Amos 8:9 — And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord GOD, that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the clear day:
• Dan 12:1 — And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people: and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that s
• Ezek 32:7 — And when I shall put thee out, I will cover the heaven, and make the stars thereof dark; I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon shall not give her light.
• Gen 1:14 — And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:
• Hag 2:6 — For thus saith the LORD of hosts; Yet once, it is a little while, and I will shake the heavens, and the earth, and the sea, and the dry land;
• Isa 5:30 — And in that day they shall roar against them like the roaring of the sea: and if one look unto the land, behold darkness and sorrow, and the light is darkened in the heavens thereof.
• Isa 5:30 — And in that day they shall roar against them like the roaring of the sea: and if one look unto the land, behold darkness and sorrow, and the light is darkened in the heavens thereof.
• Isa 13:10 — For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light: the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine.
• Isa 13:10 — For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light: the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine.
• Isa 13:13 — Therefore I will shake the heavens, and the earth shall remove out of her place, in the wrath of the LORD of hosts, and in the day of his fierce anger.
• Isa 17:12 — Woe to the multitude of many people, which make a noise like the noise of the seas; and to the rushing of nations, that make a rushing like the rushing of mighty waters!
• Isa 22:4 — Therefore said I, Look away from me; I will weep bitterly, labour not to comfort me, because of the spoiling of the daughter of my people.
• Isa 24:23 — Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed, when the LORD of hosts shall reign in mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, and before his ancients gloriously.
• Isa 28:19 — From the time that it goeth forth it shall take you: for morning by morning shall it pass over, by day and by night: and it shall be a vexation only to understand the report.
• Isa 51:15 — But I am the LORD thy God, that divided the sea, whose waves roared: The LORD of hosts is his name.
• Jer 4:23 — I beheld the earth, and, lo, it was without form, and void; and the heavens, and they had no light.
• Jer 4:23 — I beheld the earth, and, lo, it was without form, and void; and the heavens, and they had no light.
• Jer 10:2 — Thus saith the LORD, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them.
• Job 9:7 — Which commandeth the sun, and it riseth not; and sealeth up the stars.
• Joel 2:30 — And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.
• Joel 2:30 — And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.
• Joel 2:31 — The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the LORD come.
• Joel 3:15 — The sun and the moon shall be darkened, and the stars shall withdraw their shining.
• Luke 21:11 — And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.
• Mark 13:24 — But in those days, after that tribulation, the sun shall be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light,
• Mark 13:26 — And then shall they see the Son of man coming in the clouds with great power and glory.
• Mark 15:33 — And when the sixth hour was come, there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour.
• Matt 24:7 — For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
• Matt 24:29 — Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:
• Matt 24:29 — Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:
• Matt 27:45 — Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land unto the ninth hour.
• Mic 7:4 — The best of them is as a brier: the most upright is sharper than a thorn hedge: the day of thy watchmen and thy visitation cometh; now shall be their perplexity.
• Ps 46:2 — Therefore will not we fear, though the earth be removed, and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea;
• Ps 46:3 — Though the waters thereof roar and be troubled, though the mountains shake with the swelling thereof. Selah.
• Ps 93:3 — The floods have lifted up, O LORD, the floods have lifted up their voice; the floods lift up their waves.
• Rev 6:12 — And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood;
• Rev 8:12 — And the fourth angel sounded, and the third part of the sun was smitten, and the third part of the moon, and the third part of the stars; so as the third part of them was darkened, and the day shone n