Zaccaria 14:6

La Riveduta Bibbia

E in quel giorno avverrà che non vi sarà più luce; gli astri brillanti ritireranno il loro splendore.

Parallel Translations

La Nuova Diodati
In quel giorno avverr che non vi sar pi luce; gli astri luminosi si oscureranno.

Giovanni Diodati Bibbia
Ed avverr� in quel giorno che la luce non sar� serenit� e caligine.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

that the: "That is, it shall not be clear in some places, and dark in other places of the world."

not: Psalms 97:10, Psalms 97:11, Psalms 112:4, Proverbs 4:18, Proverbs 4:19, Isaiah 50:10, Isaiah 60:1-3, Hosea 6:3, Luke 1:78, Luke 1:79, John 1:5, John 12:46, Ephesians 5:8-14, Colossians 1:12, 2 Peter 1:19, Revelation 11:3, Revelation 11:15

clear: Heb. precious

dark: Heb. thickness

Reciprocal: Job 11:17 - age Daniel 12:4 - many Zechariah 12:3 - in that Mark 4:31 - is less than

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And it shall come to pass in that day,.... Which shall precede the coming of Christ, both his spiritual and personal reign; for what follows will not agree with either state:

[that] the light shall not be clear [nor] dark; before the latter day glory it will be a darkish dispensation; not "clear", as in the first times of the Gospel, when the sun of righteousness appeared, and the shadows of the ceremonial law were removed, and the Gospel shone out in the ministry of Christ and his apostles; nor as at the reformation from Popery, when the morning star was given, Revelation 2:28 nor as it will be in the spiritual reign of Christ, when Zion's light will be come, and her watchmen will see eye to eye; when the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun seven fold as the light of seven days; and much less as will be in the kingdom state, when there will be no need of the sun or moon; or in the ultimate glory, when we shall see no more darkly through a glass, but face to face: and yet it will not be "dark", as it was with the Jews under the legal dispensation; and much less as with the Gentiles before the coming of Christ; or as in the dark times of Popery; it will be a sort of a twilight, both with respect to the light of doctrine, and of spiritual joy, comfort, and experience; which is much our case now. Some read the words, "there shall be no light, but cold and frost" k; it will be a time of great coldness and lukewarmness, with regard to divine and spiritual things; iniquity will abound, and the love of many wax cold,

Matthew 24:12.

k לא יהיה אור יקרות זקפאון ουκ εσται φως και ψυχη, και παγος, Sept.; "non erit lux, sed frigus et gelu", V. L; so Syr. Ar.; "congelatio", Tigurine version; so Ben Melech; "non erit lux; frigora potius et congelatio; [vel] non erit lux; frigoribus congelascent, scilicet peccatores", Hiller. de Arcano Kethib & Keri, p. 370.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The light shall not be clear nor dark - Or, more probably, according to the original reading , “In that day there will be no light; the bright ones will contract themselves,” as it is said, “The stars shall withdraw their shining.”

This is evermore the description of the Day of Judgment, that, in the presence of God who is Light, all earthly light shall grow pale. So Joel had said, “The sun and moon shall be darkened, and the stars shall withdraw their shining” Joel 3:15. And Isaiah, “The moon shall be confounded and the sun ashamed, when the Lord of hosts shall reign in Mount Zion and in Jersalem and before His ancients gloriously” Isaiah 24:23; and, “Behold the day of the Lord cometh, The stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light: the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine” Isaiah 13:9-10. All know well our Lord’s words Matthew 24:29. John, like Zechariah, unites the failure of the heavenly light “with a great earthquake, and the sun became as sackcloth of hair: and the moon become as blood; and the stars of heaven fell upon the earth” Revelation 6:12-13.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Zechariah 14:6. The light shall not be clear, nor dark — Metaphorically, there will be a mixture of justice and mercy in all this; or a bright light and darkness. Mercy shall triumph over judgment. There shall be darkness-distress, c. but there shall be more light-joy and prosperity-than darkness.