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The light of the righteous rejoices,[a]
    but the lamp of the wicked goes out.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 13.9 Or shines

The light of the righteous shines brightly,
    but the lamp of the wicked is snuffed out.(A)

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10 For the stars of the heavens and their constellations
    will not give their light;
the sun will be dark at its rising,
    and the moon will not shed its light.(A)

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10 The stars of heaven and their constellations
    will not show their light.(A)
The rising sun(B) will be darkened(C)
    and the moon will not give its light.(D)

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All the host of heaven shall rot away,
    and the skies roll up like a scroll.
All their host shall wither
    like a leaf withering on a vine
    or fruit withering on a fig tree.(A)

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All the stars in the sky will be dissolved(A)
    and the heavens rolled up(B) like a scroll;
all the starry host will fall(C)
    like withered(D) leaves from the vine,
    like shriveled figs from the fig tree.

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31 The sun shall be turned to darkness and the moon to blood, before the great and terrible day of the Lord comes.(A)

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31 The sun will be turned to darkness(A)
    and the moon to blood
    before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord.(B)

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15 The sun and the moon are darkened,
    and the stars withdraw their shining.

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15 The sun and moon will be darkened,
    and the stars no longer shine.(A)

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On that day, says the Lord God,
    I will make the sun go down at noon
    and darken the earth in broad daylight.(A)

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“In that day,” declares the Sovereign Lord,

“I will make the sun go down at noon
    and darken the earth in broad daylight.(A)

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The Coming of the Son of Man

29 “Immediately after the suffering of those days

the sun will be darkened,
    and the moon will not give its light;
the stars will fall from heaven,
    and the powers of heaven will be shaken.(A)

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29 “Immediately after the distress of those days

“‘the sun will be darkened,
    and the moon will not give its light;
the stars will fall from the sky,
    and the heavenly bodies will be shaken.’[a](A)

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 24:29 Isaiah 13:10; 34:4

12 When he broke the sixth seal, I looked, and there was a great earthquake; the sun became black as sackcloth, the full moon became like blood,(A)

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12 I watched as he opened the sixth seal. There was a great earthquake.(A) The sun turned black(B) like sackcloth(C) made of goat hair, the whole moon turned blood red,

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13 and the stars of the sky fell to the earth as the fig tree drops its winter fruit when shaken by a gale.(A)

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13 and the stars in the sky fell to earth,(A) as figs drop from a fig tree(B) when shaken by a strong wind.

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