Acts 2:20
Good News Translation
the sun will be darkened, and the moon will turn red as blood, before the great and glorious Day of the Lord comes.

New Revised Standard Version
The sun shall be turned to darkness and the moon to blood, before the coming of the Lord’s great and glorious day.

Contemporary English Version
The sun will turn dark, and the moon will be as red as blood before the great and wonderful day of the Lord appears.

New American Bible
The sun shall be turned to darkness, and the moon to blood, before the coming of the great and splendid day of the Lord,

Douay-Rheims Bible
The sun shall be turned into darkness and the moon into blood, before the great and manifest day of the Lord to come.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

The sun shall be turned into darkness and the moon into blood, before the great and manifest day of the Lord to come.

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Isaiah 13:9,15 Behold, the day of the Lord shall come, a cruel day, and full of indignation, and of wrath, and fury, to lay the land desolate, and to destroy the sinners thereof out of it. . . .

Isaiah 24:23 And the moon shall blush, and the sun shall be ashamed, when the Lord of hosts shall reign in mount Sion, and in Jerusalem, and shall be glorified in the sight of his ancients.

Jeremiah 4:23 I beheld the earth, and lo it was void, and nothing: and the heavens, and there was no light in them.

Amos 8:9 Shall not the land tremble for this, and every one mourn that dwelleth therein: and rise up altogether as a river, and be cast out, and run down as the river of Egypt?

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.

Matthew 27:45 Now from the sixth hour, there was darkness over the whole earth, until the ninth hour.

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

Luke 21:25 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:

2 Peter 3:7,10 But the heavens and the earth which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of the ungodly men. . . .

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 16:8 And the fourth angel poured out his vial upon the sun. And it was given unto him to afflict men with heat and fire.

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Isaiah 2:12-21 Because the day of the Lord of hosts shall be upon every one that is proud and highminded, and upon every one that is arrogant, and he shall be humbled. . . .

Isaiah 34:8 For it is the day of the vengeance of the Lord, the year of recompenses of the judgment of Sion.

Joel 2:1 Blow ye the trumpet in Sion, sound an alarm in my holy mountain, let all the inhabitants of the land tremble: because the day of the Lord cometh, because it is nigh at hand.

Joel 3:14 Nations, nations in the valley of destruction: for the day of the Lord is near in the valley of destruction.

Zephaniah 2:2,3 Before the decree bring forth the day as dust passing away, before the fierce anger of the Lord come upon you, before the day of the Lord's indignation come upon you. . . .

Malachi 4:5 Behold, I will send you Elias the prophet, before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord.

1 Corinthians 5:5 To deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

1 Thessalonians 5:2 For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord shall so come as a thief in the night.

2 Peter 3:10 But the day of the Lord shall come as a thief, in which the heavens shall pass away with great violence and the elements shall be melted with heat and the earth and the works which are in it shall be burnt up.

Context
Peter Preaches to the Crowd
19And I will shew wonders in the heaven above, and signs on the earth beneath: blood and fire, and vapour of smoke. 20The sun shall be turned into darkness and the moon into blood, before the great and manifest day of the Lord to come. 21And it shalt come to pass, that whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.…
Cross References
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.

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.

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.

Acts 2:19
And I will shew wonders in the heaven above, and signs on the earth beneath: blood and fire, and vapour of smoke.

Acts 2:21
And it shalt come to pass, that whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.

Acts 2:19
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