Ezekiel 32:7 “When I extinguish you, I will cover the heavens and darken their stars…”

Ezekiel 32:7

When I extinguish you, I will cover the heavens and darken their stars. I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon will not give its light.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

And when I shall put thee out, I will cover the heaven, and make the stars thereof dark; I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon shall not give her light.

World English Bible

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.

American Standard Version

And when I shall extinguish thee, I will cover the heavens, and make the stars thereof dark; I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon shall not give its light.

Geneva Bible 1599

And when I shall put thee out, I will couer the heauen, and make the starres thereof darke: I will couer the sunne with a cloude, and the moone shall not giue her light.

Darby Translation

And when I shall put thee out, I will cover the heavens, and make the stars thereof black; I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon shall not give her light.

Young's Literal Translation

And in quenching thee I have covered the heavens, And have made black their stars, The sun with a cloud I do cover, And the moon causeth not its light to shine.

Bible in Basic English

And when I put out your life, the heaven will be covered and its stars made dark; I will let the sun be covered with a cloud and the moon will not give her light.

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Cross references

“put thee out”

Proverbs 13:9 Job 18:5 Job 18:6

Proverbs 13:9 · BSB

The light of the righteous shines brightly, but the lamp of the wicked is extinguished.

Job 18:5 · BSB

Indeed, the lamp of the wicked is extinguished; the flame of his fire does not glow.

Job 18:6 · BSB

The light in his tent grows dark, and the lamp beside him goes out.

“I will cover the heaven”

Joel 2:31 Matthew 24:29 Ezekiel 30:3 Isaiah 13:10 Isaiah 34:4 Joel 2:2

Joel 2:31 · BSB

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

Matthew 24:29 · BSB

Immediately after the tribulation 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 powers of the heavens will be shaken. ’

Ezekiel 30:3 · BSB

For the day is near, the Day of the LORD is near. It will be a day of clouds, a time of doom for the nations.

Isaiah 13:10 · BSB

For the stars of heaven and their constellations will not give their light. The rising sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light.

Isaiah 34:4 · BSB

All the stars of heaven will be dissolved. The skies will be rolled up like a scroll, and all their stars will fall like withered leaves from the vine, like foliage from the fig tree.

Joel 2:2 · BSB

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.

Also

Mark 13:24 Revelation 8:12

Mark 13:24 · BSB

But in those days, after that tribulation: ‘The sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light;

Revelation 8:12 · BSB

Then the fourth angel sounded his trumpet, and a third of the sun and moon and stars were struck. A third of the stars were darkened, a third of the day was without light, and a third of the night as well.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

6I will drench the land with the flow of your blood, all the way to the mountains— the ravines will be filled.

8All the shining lights in the heavens I will darken over you, and I will bring darkness upon your land,’ declares the Lord GOD.

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