Darkness

Nave's Topical Bible

Topic from Nave's Topical Bible (Orville J. Nave, 1897) — public domain.

• Genesis 1:2 OT

  The earth was formless and empty. Darkness was on the surface of the deep and God’s Spirit was hovering over the surface of the waters.

• Job 38:9 OT

  when I made clouds its garment, and wrapped it in thick darkness,

• Jeremiah 4:23 OT

  I saw the earth, and, behold, it was waste and void, and the heavens, and they had no light.

• Genesis 1:5 OT

  God called the light “day”, and the darkness he called “night”. There was evening and there was morning, the first day.

• Isaiah 45:7 OT

  I form the light and create darkness. I make peace and create calamity. I am Yahweh, who does all these things.

• Exodus 10:21 OT

  Yahweh 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.”

• Exodus 10:22 OT

  Moses stretched out his hand toward the sky, and there was a thick darkness in all the land of Egypt for three days.

• Psalms 105:28 OT

  He sent darkness, and made it dark. They didn’t rebel against his words.

• Exodus 20:21 OT

  The people stayed at a distance, and Moses came near to the thick darkness where God was.

• Hebrews 12:18 NT

  For you have not come to a mountain that might be touched, and that burned with fire, and to blackness, darkness, storm,

• Matthew 27:45 NT

  Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land until the ninth hour.

• Mark 15:33 NT

  When the sixth hour had come, there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour.

• Proverbs 20:20 OT

  Whoever curses his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in blackness of darkness.

• Isaiah 8:22 OT

  and look to the earth, and see distress, darkness, and the gloom of anguish. They will be driven into thick darkness.

• Isaiah 13:10 OT

  For the stars of the sky and its constellations will not give their light. The sun will be darkened in its going out, and the moon will not cause its light to shine.

• Jeremiah 4:28 OT

  For this the earth will mourn, and the heavens above be black, because I have spoken it. I have planned it, and I have not repented, neither will I turn back from it.”

• Jeremiah 13:16 OT

  Give glory to Yahweh 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 deep darkness.

• Lamentations 3:2 OT

  He has led me and caused me to walk in darkness, and not in light.

• Ezekiel 32:7 OT

  When I extinguish you, I will cover the heavens and make its stars dark. I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon won’t give its light.

• Ezekiel 32:8 OT

  I will make all the bright lights of the sky dark over you, and set darkness on your land,” says the Lord Yahweh.

• Joel 2:2 OT

  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…

• Joel 2:10 OT

  The earth quakes before them. The heavens tremble. The sun and the moon are darkened, and the stars withdraw their shining.

• Amos 4:13 OT

  For, behold, he who forms the mountains, and creates the wind, and declares to man what is his thought; who makes the morning darkness, and treads on the high places of the earth: Yahweh, the God of Armies, is his name.”

• Amos 5:18 OT

  “Woe to you who desire the day of Yahweh! Why do you long for the day of Yahweh? It is darkness, and not light.