For you were once darkness, but are now light in the Lord. Walk as children of light,
Have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather even reprove them.
For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world's rulers of the darkness of this age, and against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.
And lo, a day of darkness and obscurity, tribulation and anguish, affliction and great uproar, upon the earth.
For they covered the surface of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened, and they ate every herb of the land, and all the fruit of the trees which the hail had left. There remained nothing green, either tree or herb of the field, through all the land of Egypt.
the LORD said to Moses, "Stretch out your hand toward the sky, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, even darkness which may be felt."
Moses stretched forth his hand toward the sky, and there was a thick darkness in all the land of Egypt three days.
It came between the camp of Egypt and the camp of Israel; and there was the cloud and the darkness, yet gave it light by night: and the one didn't come near the other all the night.
The people stayed at a distance, and Moses drew near to the thick darkness where God was.
Then he said to me, Son of man, have you seen what the elders of the house of Israel do in the dark, every man in his rooms of imagery? for they say, the LORD doesn't see us; the LORD has forsaken the land.
In their sight you shall bear it on your shoulder, and carry it forth in the dark; you shall cover your face, so that you don't see the land: for I have set you for a sign to the house of Israel.
I did so as I was commanded: I brought forth my stuff by day, as stuff for removing, and in the even I dug through the wall with my hand; I brought it forth in the dark, and bore it on my shoulder in their sight.
The prince who is among them shall bear on his shoulder in the dark, and shall go forth: they shall dig through the wall to carry out thereby: he shall cover his face, because he shall not see the land with his eyes.
When I shall extinguish you, I will cover the heavens, and make its stars dark; I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon shall not give its light.
All the bright lights of the sky will I make dark over you, and set darkness on your land, says the Lord the LORD.
As a shepherd seeks out his flock in the day that he is among his sheep that are scattered abroad, so will I seek out my sheep; and I will deliver them out of all places where they have been scattered in the cloudy and dark day.
the children of Jaalah, the children of Darkon, the children of Giddel,
Now the earth was formless and empty. Darkness was on the surface of the deep. God's Spirit was hovering over the surface of the waters.
God saw the light, and saw that it was good. God divided the light from the darkness.
God called the light "day," and the darkness he called "night." There was evening and there was morning, one day.
and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness. God saw that it was good.
When the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell on Abram. Now terror and great darkness fell on him.
It came to pass that, when the sun went down, and it was dark, behold, a smoking furnace, and a flaming torch passed between these pieces.
For you have not come to a mountain that might be touched, and that burned with fire, and to blackness, darkness, storm,
Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; who put darkness for light, and light for darkness; who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
They will roar against them in that day like the roaring of the sea. If one looks to the land behold, darkness and distress. The light is darkened in its clouds.
and look to the earth, and see distress, darkness, and the gloom of anguish. They will be driven into thick darkness.
The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light. Those who lived in the land of the shadow of death, on them the light has shined.
For the stars of the sky and its constellations will not give their light. The sun will be darkened in its going forth, and the moon will not cause its light to shine.
There is a crying in the streets because of the wine. All joy is darkened. The mirth of the land is gone.
Woe to those who deeply hide their counsel from the LORD, and whose works are in the dark, and who say, "Who sees us?" and "Who knows us?"
In that day, the deaf will hear the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind will see out of obscurity and out of darkness.
to open the blind eyes, to bring the prisoners out of the dungeon, and those who sit in darkness out of the prison.
I will bring the blind by a way that they don't know. I will lead them in paths that they don't know. I will make darkness light before them, and crooked places straight. I will do these things, and I will not forsake them.
I will give you the treasures of darkness, and hidden riches of secret places, that you may know that it is I, the LORD, who call you by your name, even the God of Israel.
I form the light, and create darkness. I make peace, and create calamity. I am the LORD, who does all these things.
I have not spoken in secret, in a place of the land of darkness. I didn't say to the seed of Jacob, 'Seek me in vain.' I, the LORD, speak righteousness. I declare things that are right.
"Sit in silence, and go into darkness, daughter of the Chaldeans; for you shall no more be called the mistress of kingdoms.
saying to those who are bound, 'Come out!'; to those who are in darkness, 'Show yourselves!' "They shall feed in the ways, and on all bare heights shall be their pasture.
Who is among you who fears the LORD, who obeys the voice of his servant? He who walks in darkness, and has no light, let him trust in the name of the LORD, and rely on his God.
and if you draw out your soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul: then your light shall rise in darkness, and your obscurity be as the noonday;
Therefore is justice far from us, neither does righteousness overtake us: we look for light, but, behold, darkness; for brightness, but we walk in obscurity.
For, behold, darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the peoples; but the LORD will arise on you, and his glory shall be seen on you.
And likewise their gods of wood, overlain with silver and gold, are like a white thorn in an orchard, which every bird sits upon; and also like a dead body, which is cast into the dark.
Generation, consider the word of the LORD. Have I been a wilderness to Israel? Or a land of thick darkness? Why do my people say, 'We have broken loose. We will come to you no more?'
Give glory to the LORD your God, before he causes darkness, and before your feet stumble on the dark mountains, and, while you look for light, he turns it into the shadow of death, and makes it gross darkness.
Therefore their way shall be to them as slippery places in the darkness: they shall be driven on, and fall therein; for I will bring evil on them, even the year of their visitation, says the LORD.
Let that day be darkness. Don't let God from above seek for it, neither let the light shine on it.
Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it for their own. Let a cloud dwell on it. Let all that makes black the day terrify it.
As for that night, let thick darkness seize on it. Let it not rejoice among the days of the year. Let it not come into the number of the months.
Let the stars of its twilight be dark. Let it look for light, but have none, neither let it see the eyelids of the morning,
They meet with darkness in the day time, and grope at noonday as in the night.
before I go where I shall not return from, to the land of darkness and of the shadow of death;
the land dark as midnight, of the shadow of death, without any order, where the light is as midnight.'"
Life shall be clearer than the noonday. Though there is darkness, it shall be as the morning.
He uncovers deep things out of darkness, and brings out to light the shadow of death.
They grope in the dark without light. He makes them stagger like a drunken man.
He doesn't believe that he shall return out of darkness. He is waited for by the sword.
He wanders abroad for bread, saying, 'Where is it?' He knows that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.
He shall not depart out of darkness. The flame shall dry up his branches. By the breath of God's mouth shall he go away.
My face is red with weeping. Deep darkness is on my eyelids.
They change the night into day, saying 'The light is near' in the presence of darkness.
If I look for Sheol as my house, if I have spread my couch in the darkness,
The light shall be dark in his tent. His lamp above him shall be put out.
He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.
He has walled up my way so that I can't pass, and has set darkness in my paths.
All darkness is laid up for his treasures. An unfanned fire shall devour him. It shall consume that which is left in his tent.
or darkness, so that you can not see, and floods of waters cover you.
You say, 'What does God know? Can he judge through the thick darkness?
Because I was not cut off before the darkness, neither did he cover the thick darkness from my face.
In the dark they dig through houses. They shut themselves up in the daytime. They don't know the light.
For the morning is to all of them like thick darkness, for they know the terrors of the thick darkness.
He has described a boundary on the surface of the waters, and to the confines of light and darkness.
Man sets an end to darkness, and searches out, to the furthest bound, the stones of obscurity and of thick darkness.
when his lamp shone on my head, and by his light I walked through darkness,
When I looked for good, then evil came; When I waited for light, there came darkness.
There is no darkness, nor thick gloom, where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves.
Teach us what we shall tell him, for we can't make our case by reason of darkness.
"Who is this who darkens counsel by words without knowledge?
when I made clouds its garment, and wrapped it in thick darkness,
"What is the way to the dwelling of light? As for darkness, where is its place,
A day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness. As the dawn spreading on the mountains, a great and strong people; there has never been the like, neither will there be any more after them, even to the years of many generations.
The earth quakes before them. The heavens tremble. The sun and the moon are darkened, and the stars withdraw their shining.
The sun will be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and terrible day of the LORD comes.
The sun and the moon are darkened, and the stars withdraw their shining.
This is the message which we have heard from him and announce to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.
If we say that we have fellowship with him and walk in the darkness, we lie, and don't tell the truth.
Again, I write a new commandment to you, which is true in him and in you; because the darkness is passing away, and the true light already shines.
He who says he is in the light and hates his brother, is in the darkness even until now.
But he who hates his brother is in the darkness, and walks in the darkness, and doesn't know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.
The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness hasn't overcome it.
This is the judgment, that the light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light; for their works were evil.
and they entered into the boat, and were going over the sea to Capernaum. It was now dark, and Jesus had not come to them.
Again, therefore, Jesus spoke to them, saying, "I am the light of the world. He who follows me will not walk in the darkness, but will have the light of life."
Jesus therefore said to them, "Yet a little while the light is with you. Walk while you have the light, that darkness doesn't overtake you. He who walks in the darkness doesn't know where he is going.
I have come as a light into the world, that whoever believes in me may not remain in the darkness.
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