Genesis 1:14
Hebrew Text— Genesis 1:14God said, “Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs to mark seasons, days, and years;
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In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.
For the invisible things of him since the creation of the world are clearly seen, being perceived through the things that are made, even his everlasting power and divinity, that they may be without excuse.
I see him, but not now. I see him, but not near. A star will come out of Jacob. A scepter will rise out of Israel, and shall strike through the corners of Moab, and crush all the sons of Sheth.
“Behold, the days come,” says Yahweh, “that I will raise to David a righteous Branch, and he will reign as king and deal wisely, and will execute justice and righteousness in the land.
For, behold, he who forms the mountains, and creates the wind, and declares to man what is his thought; who makes the morning darkness, and treads on the high places of the earth: Yahweh, the God of Armies, is his name.”
and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness. God saw that it was good.
Behold, he puts no trust in his holy ones. Yes, the heavens are not clean in his sight;
For the stars of the sky and its constellations will not give their light. The sun will be darkened in its going out, and the moon will not cause its light to shine.
I saw the earth, and, behold, it was waste and void, and the heavens, and they had no light.
She who has borne seven languishes. She has given up the spirit. Her sun has gone down while it was yet day. She has been disappointed and confounded. I will deliver their residue to the sword before their enemies,” says Yahweh.
He looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and saw that the smoke of the land went up as the smoke of a furnace.
He makes the Bear, Orion, and the Pleiades, and the rooms of the south.
“Can you bind the cluster of the Pleiades, or loosen the cords of Orion?
He counts the number of the stars. He calls them all by their names.
Then the moon will be confounded, and the sun ashamed; for Yahweh of Armies will reign on Mount Zion, and in Jerusalem; and glory will be before his elders.
All of the army of the sky will be dissolved. The sky will be rolled up like a scroll, and all its armies will fade away, as a leaf fades from off a vine or a fig tree.
A day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness. As the dawn spreading on the mountains, a great and strong people; there has never been the like, neither will there be any more after them, even to the years of many generations.
The sun will be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and terrible day of Yahweh comes.
“Therefore night is over you, with no vision, and it is dark to you, that you may not divine; and the sun will go down on the prophets, and the day will be black over them.
The sun will be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and glorious day of the Lord comes.
and has gone and served other gods and worshiped them, or the sun, or the moon, or any of the stars of the sky, which I have not commanded,
They abandoned all the commandments of Yahweh their God, and made molten images for themselves, even two calves, and made an Asherah, and worshiped all the army of the sky, and served Baal.
For he built again the high places which Hezekiah his father had destroyed; and he raised up altars for Baal, and made an Asherah, as Ahab king of Israel did, and worshiped all the army of the sky, and served them.
He stirs up the sea with his power, and by his understanding he strikes through Rahab.
if I have seen the sun when it shined, or the moon moving in splendor,
You have set all the boundaries of the earth. You have made summer and winter.
You make darkness, and it is night, in which all the animals of the forest prowl.
Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look at the earth beneath; for the heavens will vanish away like smoke, and the earth will wear out like a garment. Its inhabitants will die in the same way, but my salvation will be forever, and my righteousness will not be abolished.
For I am Yahweh your God, who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar. Yahweh of Armies is his name.
They don’t say in their heart, ‘Let’s now fear Yahweh our God, who gives rain, both the former and the latter, in its season, who preserves to us the appointed weeks of the harvest.’
The portion of Jacob is not like these; for he is the maker of all things; and Israel is the tribe of his inheritance: Yahweh of Armies is his name.
As the appearance of the rainbow that is in the cloud in the day of rain, so was the appearance of the brightness all around. This was the appearance of the likeness of Yahweh’s glory. When I saw it, I fell on my face, and I heard a voice of one that spoke.
It is he who builds his rooms in the heavens, and has founded his vault on the earth; he who calls for the waters of the sea, and pours them out on the surface of the earth; Yahweh is his name.
Rejoice greatly, daughter of Zion! Shout, daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, your King comes to you! He is righteous, and having salvation; lowly, and riding on a donkey, even on a colt, the foal of a donkey.
Nathanael answered him, “Rabbi, you are the Son of God! You are King of Israel!”
The fifth poured out his bowl on the throne of the beast, and his kingdom was darkened. They gnawed their tongues because of the pain,
The heavens, the earth, and all their vast array were finished.
You shall not walk in the customs of the nation which I am casting out before you; for they did all these things, and therefore I abhorred them.
and lest you lift up your eyes to the sky, and when you see the sun and the moon and the stars, even all the army of the sky, you are drawn away and worship them, and serve them, which Yahweh your God has allotted to all the peoples under the whole sky.
I said to you, “I am Yahweh your God. You shall not fear the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell.” But you have not listened to my voice.’ ”
They meet with darkness in the day time, and grope at noonday as in the night.
Lift up your eyes on high, and see who has created these, who brings out their army by number. He calls them all by name. by the greatness of his might, and because he is strong in power, not one is lacking.
I form the light and create darkness. I make peace and create calamity. I am Yahweh, who does all these things.
Yes, my hand has laid the foundation of the earth, and my right hand has spread out the heavens. when I call to them, they stand up together.
For my hand has made all these things, and so all these things came to be,” says Yahweh: “but I will look to this man, even to he who is poor and of a contrite spirit, and who trembles at my word.
The houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of the kings of Judah, which are defiled, will be as the place of Topheth, even all the houses on whose roofs they have burned incense to all the army of the sky and have poured out drink offerings to other gods.” ’ ”
Yahweh, who gives the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, who stirs up the sea, so that its waves roar; Yahweh of Armies is his name, says:
He brought me into the inner court of Yahweh’s house; and I saw at the door of Yahweh’s temple, between the porch and the altar, there were about twenty-five men, with their backs toward Yahweh’s temple, and their faces toward the east. They were worshiping the sun toward the east.
When I extinguish you, I will cover the heavens and make its stars dark. I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon won’t give its light.
They came into the house and saw the young child with Mary, his mother, and they fell down and worshiped him. Opening their treasures, they offered to him gifts: gold, frankincense, and myrrh.
the people who sat in darkness saw a great light, to those who sat in the region and shadow of death, to them light has dawned.”
Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land until the ninth hour.
Behold, the veil of the temple was torn in two from the top to the bottom. The earth quaked and the rocks were split.
When the sixth hour had come, there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour.
It was now about the sixth hour, and darkness came over the whole land until the ninth hour.
But God turned, and gave them up to serve the army of the sky, as it is written in the book of the prophets, ‘Did you offer to me slain animals and sacrifices forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?
Be patient therefore, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient over it, until it receives the early and late rain.
But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in which the heavens will pass away with a great noise, and the elements will be dissolved with fervent heat, and the earth and the works that are in it will be burned up.
I saw a mighty angel coming down out of the sky, clothed with a cloud. A rainbow was on his head. His face was like the sun, and his feet like pillars of fire.
I, Jesus, have sent my angel to testify these things to you for the assemblies. I am the root and the offspring of David, the Bright and Morning Star.”
Praise him, sun and moon! Praise him, all you shining stars!
He has also established them forever and ever. He has made a decree which will not pass away.
I will make all the bright lights of the sky dark over you, and set darkness on your land,” says the Lord Yahweh.
seek him who made the Pleiades and Orion, and turns the shadow of death into the morning, and makes the day dark with night; who calls for the waters of the sea, and pours them out on the surface of the earth, Yahweh is his name,
God said, “Let there be an expanse in the middle of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.”
Yahweh says, “Don’t learn the way of the nations, and don’t be dismayed at the signs of the sky; for the nations are dismayed at them.
“Yahweh says: ‘If you can break my covenant of the day and my covenant of the night, so that there will not be day and night in their time;
The sun and the moon are darkened, and the stars withdraw their shining.
Then Yahweh spoke to the fish, and it vomited out Jonah on the dry land.
But immediately after the suffering of those days, the sun will be darkened, the moon will not give its light, the stars will fall from the sky, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken;
There is one glory of the sun, another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars; for one star differs from another star in glory.
God said, “Let the waters abound with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open expanse of the sky.”
While the earth remains, seed time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night will not cease.”
I set my rainbow in the cloud, and it will be a sign of a covenant between me and the earth.
Let the stars of its twilight be dark. Let it look for light, but have none, neither let it see the eyelids of the morning,
Can his armies be counted? On whom does his light not arise?
Behold, even the moon has no brightness, and the stars are not pure in his sight;
Blow the trumpet at the New Moon, at the full moon, on our feast day.
Your laws remain to this day, for all things serve you.
Yahweh says: “If my covenant of day and night fails, if I have not appointed the ordinances of heaven and earth;
“ ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “The gate of the inner court that looks toward the east shall be shut the six working days; but on the Sabbath day it shall be opened, and on the day of the new moon it shall be opened.
On the day of the new moon it shall be a young bull without defect, and six lambs, and a ram. They shall be without defect.
The earth quakes before them. The heavens tremble. The sun and the moon are darkened, and the stars withdraw their shining.
It will happen in that day,” says the Lord Yahweh, “that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the clear day.
“Where is he who is born King of the Jews? For we saw his star in the east, and have come to worship him.”
“Why do your disciples disobey the tradition of the elders? For they don’t wash their hands when they eat bread.”
But in those days, after that oppression, the sun will be darkened, the moon will not give its light,
The sun was darkened, and the veil of the temple was torn in two.
I saw when he opened the sixth seal, and there was a great earthquake. The sun became black as sackcloth made of hair, and the whole moon became as blood.
The fourth angel sounded, and one third of the sun was struck, and one third of the moon, and one third of the stars; so that one third of them would be darkened, and the day wouldn’t shine for one third of it, and the night in the same way.
He opened the pit of the abyss, and smoke went up out of the pit, like the smoke from a burning furnace. The sun and the air were darkened because of the smoke from the pit.