Now on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene went early, while it was still dark, to the tomb, and saw the stone taken away from the tomb.
It happened about the time of the shutting of the gate, when it was dark, that the men went out. Where the men went, I don't know. Pursue them quickly; for you will overtake them."
When they cried out to the LORD, he put darkness between you and the Egyptians, and brought the sea on them, and covered them; and your eyes saw what I did in Egypt: and you lived in the wilderness many days.
Angels who didn't keep their first domain, but deserted their own dwelling place, he has kept in everlasting bonds under darkness for the judgment of the great day.
wild waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, for whom the blackness of darkness has been reserved forever.
He has led me and caused me to walk in darkness, and not in light.
He has made me to dwell in dark places, as those that have been long dead.
to shine on those who sit in darkness and the shadow of death; to guide our feet into the way of peace."
The lamp of the body is the eye. Therefore when your eye is good, your whole body is also full of light; but when it is evil, your body also is full of darkness.
Therefore see whether the light that is in you isn't darkness.
If therefore your whole body is full of light, having no part dark, it will be wholly full of light, as when the lamp with its bright shining gives you light."
Therefore whatever you have said in the darkness will be heard in the light. What you have spoken in the ear in the inner rooms will be proclaimed on the housetops.
When I was with you in the temple daily, you didn't stretch out your hands against me. But this is your hour, and the power of darkness."
It was now about the sixth hour, and darkness came over the whole land until the ninth hour.
The sun was darkened, and the veil of the temple was torn in two.
Early in the morning, while it was still dark, he rose up and went out, and departed into a deserted place, and prayed there.
But in those days, after that oppression, the sun will be darkened, the moon will not give its light,
When the sixth hour had come, there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour.
the people who sat in darkness saw a great light, to those who sat in the region and shadow of death, to them light has dawned."
But if your eye is evil, your whole body will be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!
but the children of the Kingdom will be thrown out into the outer darkness. There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth."
What I tell you in the darkness, speak in the light; and what you hear whispered in the ear, proclaim on the housetops.
Then the king said to the servants, 'Bind him hand and foot, take him away, and throw him into the outer darkness; there is where the weeping and grinding of teeth will be.'
But immediately after the oppression of those days, the sun will be darkened, the moon will not give its light, the stars will fall from the sky, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken;
Throw out the unprofitable servant into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.'
Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land until the ninth hour.
"Therefore night is over you, with no vision, and it is dark to you, that you may not divine; and the sun will go down on the prophets, and the day will be black over them.
Don't rejoice against me, my enemy. When I fall, I will arise. When I sit in darkness, the LORD will be a light to me.
But with an overflowing flood, he will make a full end of her place, and will pursue his enemies into darkness.
the children of Jaala, the children of Darkon, the children of Giddel,
It came to pass that, when the gates of Jerusalem began to be dark before the Sabbath, I commanded that the doors should be shut, and commanded that they should not be opened until after the Sabbath. I set some of my servants over the gates, that no burden should be brought in on the Sabbath day.
who forsake the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness;
The way of the wicked is like darkness. They don't know what they stumble over.
in the twilight, in the evening of the day, in the middle of the night and in the darkness.
Whoever curses his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in blackness of darkness.
For, behold, the wicked bend their bows. They set their arrows on the strings, that they may shoot in darkness at the upright in heart.
He bowed the heavens also, and came down. Thick darkness was under his feet.
He made darkness his hiding place, his pavilion around him, darkness of waters, thick clouds of the skies.
For you will light my lamp, the LORD. My God will light up my darkness.
Let their way be dark and slippery, the LORD's angel pursuing them.
Let their eyes be darkened, so that they can't see. Let their backs be continually bent.
Honor your covenant, for haunts of violence fill the dark places of the earth.
I will open my mouth in a parable. I will utter dark sayings of old,
They don't know, neither do they understand. They walk back and forth in darkness. All the foundations of the earth are shaken.
You have laid me in the lowest pit, in the darkest depths.
Are your wonders made known in the dark? Or your righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?
You have put lover and friend far from me, and my friends into darkness. A contemplation by Ethan, the Ezrahite.
nor of the pestilence that walks in darkness, nor of the destruction that wastes at noonday.
Clouds and darkness are around him. Righteousness and justice are the foundation of his throne.
You make darkness, and it is night, in which all the animals of the forest prowl.
He sent darkness, and made it dark. They didn't rebel against his words.
Some sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound in affliction and iron,
He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and broke their bonds in sunder.
Light dawns in the darkness for the upright, gracious, merciful, and righteous.
If I say, "Surely the darkness will overwhelm me; the light around me will be night;"
even the darkness doesn't hide from you, but the night shines as the day. The darkness is like light to you.
For the enemy pursues my soul. He has struck my life down to the ground. He has made me live in dark places, as those who have been long dead.
The fourth angel sounded, and one third of the sun was struck, and one third of the moon, and one third of the stars; so that one third of them would be darkened, and the day wouldn't shine for one third of it, and the night in the same way.
He opened the pit of the abyss, and smoke went up out of the pit, like the smoke from a burning furnace. The sun and the air were darkened because of the smoke from the pit.
The fifth poured out his bowl on the throne of the beast, and his kingdom was darkened. They gnawed their tongues because of the pain,
Because, knowing God, they didn't glorify him as God, neither gave thanks, but became vain in their reasoning, and their senseless heart was darkened.
and are confident that you yourself are a guide of the blind, a light to those who are in darkness,
Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see. Bow down their back always."
The night is far gone, and the day is near. Let's therefore throw off the works of darkness, and let's put on the armor of light.
I am dark, but lovely, you daughters of Jerusalem, like Kedar's tents, like Solomon's curtains.
Don't stare at me because I am dark, because the sun has scorched me. My mother's sons were angry with me. They made me keeper of the vineyards. I haven't kept my own vineyard.
That day is a day of wrath, a day of distress and anguish, a day of trouble and ruin, a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and blackness,
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