Joel 2:1-2

The Day of the Lord

¹ _j Blow a trumpet in _k Zion;
sound an alarm on _k my holy mountain!
Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble,
for _l the day of the Lord is coming; it is near,
² _m a day of darkness and gloom,
_m a day of clouds and thick darkness!
Like blackness there is spread upon the mountains
_n a great and powerful people;
_o their like has never been before,
nor will be again after them
through the years of all generations.

1. Cross References
   Joel 2:15
   Blow the trumpet in Zion; consecrate a fast; call a solemn assembly.
   Isaiah 58:1
   Cry aloud; do not hold back; lift up your voice like a trumpet; declare to my people their transgression, to the house of Jacob their sins.
   Hosea 5:8
   Blow the horn in Gibeah, the trumpet in Ramah. Sound the alarm at Beth-aven; we follow you, O Benjamin!
   Amos 3:6
   Is a trumpet blown in a city, and the people are not afraid? Does disaster come to a city, unless the Lord has done it?
   
2. Cross References
   Joel 3:17
   So you shall know that I am the Lord your God, who dwells in Zion, my holy mountain. And Jerusalem shall be holy, and strangers shall never again pass through it.
   
3. Cross References
   Joel 3:17
   So you shall know that I am the Lord your God, who dwells in Zion, my holy mountain. And Jerusalem shall be holy, and strangers shall never again pass through it.
   
4. Cross References
   Joel 1:15
   Alas for the day! For the day of the Lord is near, and as destruction from the Almighty it comes.
   
5. Cross References
   Amos 5:18
   Woe to you who desire the day of the Lord! Why would you have the day of the Lord ? It is darkness, and not light.
   Amos 5:20
   Is not the day of the Lord darkness, and not light, and gloom with no brightness in it?
   Zephaniah 1:15
   A day of wrath is that day, a day of distress and anguish, a day of ruin and devastation, a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and thick darkness.
   
6. Cross References
   Amos 5:18
   Woe to you who desire the day of the Lord! Why would you have the day of the Lord ? It is darkness, and not light.
   Amos 5:20
   Is not the day of the Lord darkness, and not light, and gloom with no brightness in it?
   Zephaniah 1:15
   A day of wrath is that day, a day of distress and anguish, a day of ruin and devastation, a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and thick darkness.
   
7. Cross References
   Joel 1:6
   For a nation has come up against my land, powerful and beyond number; its teeth are lions' teeth, and it has the fangs of a lioness.
   Joel 2:11
   The Lord utters his voice before his army, for his camp is exceedingly great; he who executes his word is powerful. For the day of the Lord is great and very awesome; who can endure it?
   Joel 2:25
   I will restore to you the years that the swarming locust has eaten, the hopper, the destroyer, and the cutter, my great army, which I sent among you.
   
8. Cross References
   Joel 1:2
   Hear this, you elders; give ear, all inhabitants of the land! Has such a thing happened in your days, or in the days of your fathers?