Joel 3:15
Good News Translation
The sun and the moon grow dark, and the stars no longer shine.

New Revised Standard Version
The sun and the moon are darkened, and the stars withdraw their shining.

Contemporary English Version
no light from the sun or moon, and stars no longer shine.

New American Bible
Sun and moon are darkened, and the stars withhold their brightness,

Douay-Rheims Bible
The sun and the moon are darkened, and the stars have withdrawn their shining.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

The sun and the moon are darkened, and the stars have withdrawn their shining.

Joel 2:10,31 At their presence the earth hath trembled, the heavens are moved: the sun and moon are darkened, and the stars have withdrawn their shining. . . .

Isaiah 13:10 For the stars of heaven, and their brightness shall not display their light: the sun shall be darkened in his rising, and the moon shall not shine with her light.

Matthew 24:29 And immediately after the tribulation of those days, the sun shall be darkened and the moon shall not give her light and the stars shall fall from heaven and the powers of heaven shall be moved.

Luke 21:25,26 And there shall be signs in the sun and in the moon and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, by reason of the confusion of the roaring of the sea, and of the waves: . . .

Revelation 6:12,13 And I saw, when he had opened the sixth seal: and behold there was a great earthquake. And the sun became black as sackcloth of hair: and the whole moon became as blood. . . .

Context
The LORD Judges the Nations
14Nations, nations in the valley of destruction: for the day of the Lord is near in the valley of destruction. 15The sun and the moon are darkened, and the stars have withdrawn their shining.16And the Lord shall roar out of Sion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem: and the heavens and the earth shall be moved, and the Lord shall be the hope of his people, and the strength of the children of Israel.…
Cross References
Matthew 24:29
And immediately after the tribulation of those days, the sun shall be darkened and the moon shall not give her light and the stars shall fall from heaven and the powers of heaven shall be moved.

Mark 13:24
But in those days, after that tribulation, the sun shall be darkened and the moon shall not give her light.

Revelation 6:12
And I saw, when he had opened the sixth seal: and behold there was a great earthquake. And the sun became black as sackcloth of hair: and the whole moon became as blood.

Revelation 8:12
And the fourth angel sounded the trumpet: and the third part of the sun was smitten, and the third part of the moon, and the third part of the stars, so that the third part of them was darkened. And the day did not shine for a third part of it: and the night in like manner.

Ecclesiastes 12:2
Before the sun, and the light, and the moon, and the stars be darkened, and the clouds return after the rain:

Ezekiel 32:7
And I will cover the heavens, when thou shalt be put out, and I will make the stars thereof dark: I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon shall not give her light.

Joel 2:10
At their presence the earth hath trembled, the heavens are moved: the sun and moon are darkened, and the stars have withdrawn their shining.

Joel 2:31
The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood: before the great and dreadful day of the Lord doth come.

Joel 3:14
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