Cross references

Amos 5:18

Woe to you who long for the Day of the LORD!

What will the Day of the LORD be for you?

It will be darkness and not light.

Amos 5:18 BSB

Amos 5:18 has 18 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 12 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Joel 1:15 (10 votes) and Joel 2:1–2 (9 votes). 27 other verses point back to it. It links with 11 other books, from Deuteronomy 32 to 2 Peter 3.

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Which verses does Amos 5:18 point to?

Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.

  1. Joel 1:1510 votes

    Alas for the day! For the Day of the LORD is near, and it will come as destruction from the Almighty.

  2. Blow the ram’s horn in Zion; sound the alarm on My holy mountain! Let all who dwell in the land tremble, for the Day of the LORD is coming; indeed, it is near— a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and blackness. Like the dawn overspreading the mountains a great and strong army appears, such as never was of old, nor will ever be in ages to come.

  3. Joel 2:318 votes

    The sun will be turned to darkness and the moon to blood before the coming of the great and awesome Day of the LORD.

  4. How awful that day will be! None will be like it! It is the time of Jacob’s distress, but he will be saved out of it.

  5. “For behold, the day is coming, burning like a furnace, when all the arrogant and every evildoer will be stubble; the day is coming when I will set them ablaze,” says the LORD of Hosts. “Not a root or branch will be left to them.”

  6. to those who say, “Let Him hurry and hasten His work so that we may see it! Let the plan of the Holy One of Israel come so that we may know it!”

  7. In that day they will roar over it, like the roaring of the sea. If one looks over the land, he will see darkness and distress; even the light will be obscured by clouds.

  8. By the wrath of the LORD of Hosts the land is scorched, and the people are fuel for the fire. No man even spares his brother.

  9. In the streets they cry out for wine. All joy turns to gloom; rejoicing is exiled from the land. The city is left in ruins; its gate is reduced to rubble.

  10. The great Day of the LORD is near—near and coming quickly. Listen, the Day of the LORD! Then the cry of the mighty will be bitter. That day will be a day of wrath, a day of trouble and distress, a day of destruction and desolation, a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and blackness,

  11. Joel 2:104 votes

Which verses point to Amos 5:18?

The 10 strongest of 27.