Biblical References to Darkness
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Psalm
91:6
Nor for the pestilence that walketh in darkness;
nor for the destruction that wasteth at noonday.
Psalm
97:2
Clouds and darkness are round about him:
righteousness and judgment are the habitation of his throne.
Psalm
104:20
Thou makest darkness, and it is night: wherein
all the beasts of the forest do creep forth.
Psalm
105:28
He sent darkness, and made it dark; and they
rebelled not against his word.
Psalm
107:10
Such as sit in darkness and in the shadow of
death, being bound in affliction and iron;
Psalm
107:14
He brought them out of darkness and the shadow
of death, and brake their bands in sunder.
Psalm
112:4
Unto the upright there ariseth light in the
darkness: he is gracious, and full of compassion, and
righteous.
Psalm
139:11
If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me;
even the night shall be light about me.
Psalm
139:12
Yea, the darkness hideth not from thee; but the
night shineth as the day: the darkness and the light are both alike to
thee.
Psalm
143:3
For the enemy hath persecuted my soul; he hath smitten
my life down to the ground; he hath made me to dwell in darkness, as
those that have been long dead.
Proverbs
2:13
Who leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways
of darkness;
Proverbs
4:19
The way of the wicked is as darkness: they know
not at what they stumble.
Proverbs
20:20
Whoso curseth his father or his mother, his lamp shall
be put out in obscure darkness.
Ecclesiastes
2:13
Then I saw that wisdom excelleth folly, as far as light
excelleth darkness.
Ecclesiastes
2:14
The wise man's eyes are in his head; but the fool walketh
in darkness: and I myself perceived also that one event happeneth to
them all.
Ecclesiastes
5:17
All his days also he eateth in darkness, and he
hath much sorrow and wrath with his sickness.
Ecclesiastes
6:4
For he cometh in with vanity, and departeth in
darkness, and his name shall be covered with darkness.
Ecclesiastes
11:8
But if a man live many years, and rejoice in them all;
yet let him remember the days of darkness; for they shall be many. All
that cometh is vanity.
Isaiah
5:20
Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that
put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter
for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
Isaiah
5:30
And in that day they shall roar against them like the
roaring of the sea: and if one look unto the land, behold darkness and
sorrow, and the light is darkened in the heavens thereof.
Isaiah
8:22
And they shall look unto the earth; and behold trouble
and darkness, dimness of anguish; and they shall be driven to
darkness.
Isaiah
9:2
The people that walked in darkness have seen a
great light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them
hath the light shined.
Isaiah
29:18
And in that day shall the deaf hear the words of the
book, and the eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity, and out of
darkness.
Isaiah
42:7
To open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from
the prison, and them that sit in darkness out of the prison
house.
Isaiah
42:16
And I will bring the blind by a way that they knew not;
I will lead them in paths that they have not known: I will make
darkness light before them, and crooked things straight. These things
will I do unto them, and not forsake them.
Isaiah
45:3
And I will give thee the treasures of darkness,
and hidden riches of secret places, that thou mayest know that I, the LORD,
which call thee by thy name, am the God of Israel.
Isaiah
45:7
I form the light, and create darkness: I make
peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.
Isaiah
47:5
Sit thou silent, and get thee into darkness, O
daughter of the Chaldeans: for thou shalt no more be called, The lady of
kingdoms.
Isaiah
49:9
That thou mayest say to the prisoners, Go forth; to them
that are in darkness, Shew yourselves. They shall feed in the ways, and
their pastures shall be in all high places.
Isaiah
50:10
Who is among you that feareth the LORD, that obeyeth the
voice of his servant, that walketh in darkness, and hath no light? let
him trust in the name of the LORD, and stay upon his God.
Isaiah
58:10
And if thou draw out thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy
the afflicted soul; then shall thy light rise in obscurity, and thy
darkness be as the noon day:
Isaiah
59:9
Therefore is judgment far from us, neither doth justice
overtake us: we wait for light, but behold obscurity; for brightness, but we
walk in darkness.
Isaiah
60:2
For, behold, the darkness shall cover the earth,
and gross darkness the people: but the LORD shall arise upon thee, and
his glory shall be seen upon thee.
Jeremiah
2:31
O generation, see ye the word of the LORD. Have I been a
wilderness unto Israel? a land of darkness? wherefore say my people, We
are lords; we will come no more unto thee?
Jeremiah
13:16
Give glory to the LORD your God, before he cause
darkness, and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains, and,
while ye look for light, he turn it into the shadow of death, and make it
gross darkness.
Jeremiah
23:12
Wherefore their way shall be unto them as slippery ways
in the darkness: they shall be driven on, and fall therein: for I will
bring evil upon them, even the year of their visitation, saith the
LORD.
Lamentations
3:2
He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, but
not into light.
Ezekiel
32:8
All the bright lights of heaven will I make dark over
thee, and set darkness upon thy land, saith the Lord GOD.
Daniel
2:22
He revealeth the deep and secret things: he knoweth what
is in the darkness, and the light dwelleth with him.
Joel
2:2
A day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of
clouds and of thick darkness, as the morning spread upon the mountains:
a great people and a strong; there hath not been ever the like, neither shall
be any more after it, even to the years of many generations.
Joel
2:31
The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the
moon into blood, before the great and terrible day of the LORD come.
Amos
4:13
For, lo, he that formeth the mountains, and createth the
wind, and declareth unto man what is his thought, that maketh the morning
darkness, and treadeth upon the high places of the earth, The LORD, The
God of hosts, is his name.
Amos
5:18
Woe unto you that desire the day of the LORD! to what end
is it for you? the day of the LORD is darkness, and not light.
Amos
5:20
Shall not the day of the LORD be darkness, and not
light? even very dark, and no brightness in it?
Micah
7:8
Rejoice not against me, O mine enemy: when I fall, I shall
arise; when I sit in darkness, the LORD shall be a light unto
me.
Nahum
1:8
But with an overrunning flood he will make an utter end of
the place thereof, and darkness shall pursue his enemies.
Zephaniah
1:15
That day is a day of wrath, a day of trouble and
distress, a day of wasteness and desolation, a day of darkness and
gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness,
Matthew
4:16
The people which sat in darkness saw great light;
and to them which sat in the region and shadow of death light is sprung
up.
Matthew
6:23
But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of
darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness,
how great is that darkness!
Matthew
8:12
But the children of the kingdom shall be cast out into
outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.