Zechariah 14:6

Young's Literal Translation

And it hath come to pass, in that day, The precious light is not, it is dense darkness,

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
On that day there will be no light; the sunlight and moonlight will diminish.

Hebrew Names Version
It will happen in that day, that there will not be light, cold, or frost.

King James Version (1611)
And it shall come to passe in that day, that the light shall not be cleare, nor darke.

King James Version
And it shall come to pass in that day, that the light shall not be clear, nor dark:

English Standard Version
On that day there shall be no light, cold, or frost.

New American Standard Bible
On that day there will be no light; the luminaries will die out.

New Century Version
On that day there will be no light, cold, or frost.

Amplified Bible
In that day there will be no light; the glorious ones (heavenly bodies) shall be darkened.

Geneva Bible (1587)
And in that day shall there bee no cleare light, but darke.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
In that day there will be no light; the luminaries will dwindle.

Legacy Standard Bible
And it will be in that day, that there will be no light; the luminaries will dwindle.

Berean Standard Bible
On that day there will be no light, no cold or frost.

Contemporary English Version
It will be a bright day that won't turn cloudy.

Complete Jewish Bible
On that day, there will be neither bright light nor thick darkness;

Darby Translation
And it shall come to pass in that day, [that] there shall not be light; the shining shall be obscured.

Easy-to-Read Version
That will be a very special day. There will not be any light, cold, or frost. Only the Lord knows how, but there will not be any day or night. Then, when darkness usually comes, there will still be light.

George Lamsa Translation
And it shall come to pass in that day there shall be no light, but cold and ice.

Good News Translation
When that time comes, there will no longer be cold or frost,

Lexham English Bible
And then on that day there will not be light, the precious things will congeal.

Literal Translation
And it will be in that day, there shall not be light; the glorious ones will shrink.

American Standard Version
And it shall come to pass in that day, that there shall not be light; the bright ones shall withdraw themselves:

Bible in Basic English
And in that day there will be no heat or cold or ice;

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And it shall come to pass in that day, that there shall not be light, but heavy clouds and thick;

Bishop's Bible (1568)
In that day shall there be no cleare light, but darke.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And it shall come to pass in that day that there shall be no light,

English Revised Version
And it shall come to pass in that day, that the light shall not be with brightness and with gloom:

World English Bible
It will happen in that day, that there will not be light, cold, or frost.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And it schal be, in that dai liyt schal not be, but coold and frost.

Update Bible Version
And it shall come to pass in that day, that there shall not be light; the bright ones shall withdraw themselves:

Webster's Bible Translation
And it shall come to pass in that day, [that] the light shall not be clear, [nor] dark:

New English Translation
On that day there will be no light—the sources of light in the heavens will congeal.

New King James Version
It shall come to pass in that day That there will be no light; The lights will diminish.

New Living Translation
On that day the sources of light will no longer shine,

New Life Bible
On that day there will be no light. The stars of heaven will be made dark.

New Revised Standard
On that day there shall not be either cold or frost.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And it shall come to pass, in that day, - that there shall be no light, the bright stars, shall be withdrawn;

Douay-Rheims Bible
And it shall come to pass in that day, that there shall be no light, but cold and frost.

Revised Standard Version
On that day there shall be neither cold nor frost.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
In that daye shal it not be light, but colde and frost.

THE MESSAGE
What a Day that will be! No more cold nights—in fact, no more nights! The Day is coming—the timing is God 's—when it will be continuous day. Every evening will be a fresh morning.

Contextual Overview

¹ Lo, a day hath come to Jehovah, And divided hath been thy spoil in thy midst. ² And I have gathered all the nations unto Jerusalem to battle, And captured hath been the city, And spoiled have been the houses, And the women are lain with, Gone forth hath half the city in a removal, And the remnant of the people are not cut off from the city. ³ And gone forth hath Jehovah, And He hath fought against those nations, As in the day of His fighting in a day of conflict. ⁴ And stood have His feet, in that day, On the mount of Olives, That [is] before Jerusalem eastward, And cleft hath been the mount of Olives at its midst, To the east, and to the west, a very great valley, And removed hath the half of the mount towards the north. And its half towards the south. ⁵ And ye have fled [to] the valley of My mountains, For join doth the valley of the mountains to Azal, And ye have fled as ye fled before the shaking, In the days of Uzziah king of Judah, And come in hath Jehovah my God, All holy ones [are] with Thee. ⁶ And it hath come to pass, in that day, The precious light is not, it is dense darkness, ⁷ And there hath been one day, It is known to Jehovah, not day nor night, And it hath been at evening-time -- there is light.

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

Cross-References

Genesis 14:20
and blessed [is] God Most High, who hath delivered thine adversaries into thy hand;' and he giveth to him a tenth of all.

Genesis 16:7
And a messenger of Jehovah findeth her by the fountain of water in the wilderness, by the fountain in the way [to] Shur,

Genesis 21:21
and he dwelleth in the wilderness of Paran, and his mother taketh for him a wife from the land of Egypt.

Genesis 36:8
and Esau dwelleth in mount Seir: Esau is Edom.

Numbers 10:12
and the sons of Israel journey in their journeyings from the wilderness of Sinai, and the cloud doth tabernacle in the wilderness of Paran;

Numbers 12:16
and afterwards have the people journeyed from Hazeroth, and they encamp in the wilderness of Paran.

Numbers 13:3
And Moses sendeth them from the wilderness of Paran by the command of Jehovah; all of them [are] men, heads of the sons of Israel they are,

Deuteronomy 2:12
And in Seir have the Horim dwelt formerly; and the sons of Esau dispossess them, and destroy them from before them, and dwell in their stead, as Israel hath done to the land of his possession, which Jehovah hath given to them;

Habakkuk 3:3
God from Teman doth come, The Holy One from mount Paran. Pause! Covered the heavens hath His majesty, And His praise hath filled the earth.

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.