And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.
Parallel translations
- WEB I will show wonders in the heavens and in the earth: blood, fire, and pillars of smoke.
- BSB I will show wonders in the heavens and on the earth, blood and fire and columns of smoke.
- NKJV “And I will show wonders in the heavens and in the earth: Blood and fire and pillars of smoke.
- NASB “I will display wonders in the sky and on the earth, Blood, fire, and columns of smoke.
- NLT And I will cause wonders in the heavens and on the earth— blood and fire and columns of smoke.
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Quick answer
God will show wonders in the heavens and on earth, including blood, fire, and pillars of smoke. These signs accompany the coming day of Yahweh.
Overview
Alongside the Spirit's outpouring, God foretells cosmic and earthly portents heralding His great day. Peter cites these signs at Pentecost as part of the era inaugurated by Christ (Acts 2:19). Such wonders mark the unfolding of God's redemptive purposes and point toward the final day of the Lord, warning all to be ready through salvation in Christ.
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- Acts 2:19–20And I will shew wonders in heaven above, and signs in the earth beneath; blood, and fire, and vapour of smoke:
- Luke 21:11And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.
- Matt 24:29Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:
- Luke 21:25–26And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring;
- Mark 13:24–25But in those days, after that tribulation, the sun shall be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light,
- Judg 20:40But when the flame began to arise up out of the city with a pillar of smoke, the Benjamites looked behind them, and, behold, the flame of the city ascended up to heaven.
- Rev 6:12–17And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood;
- Gen 19:28And he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and beheld, and, lo, the smoke of the country went up as the smoke of a furnace.
- Rev 18:9And the kings of the earth, who have committed fornication and lived deliciously with her, shall bewail her, and lament for her, when they shall see the smoke of her burning,
- Rev 18:18And cried when they saw the smoke of her burning, saying, What city is like unto this great city!
- Song 3:6Who is this that cometh out of the wilderness like pillars of smoke, perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, with all powders of the merchant?
- Judg 20:38Now there was an appointed sign between the men of Israel and the liers in wait, that they should make a great flame with smoke rise up out of the city.
- Josh 8:20And when the men of Ai looked behind them, they saw, and, behold, the smoke of the city ascended up to heaven, and they had no power to flee this way or that way: and the people that fled to the wilderness turned back upon the pursuers.
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