Amos 5:8
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8 The one who made the Pleiades and Orion
and turns deep darkness into the morning
and darkens the day into night,
who calls for the water of the sea
and pours it out on the surface of the earth,
the Lord is his name,(A)
Amos 4:13
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13 For the one who forms the mountains, creates the wind,
reveals his thoughts to mortals,
makes the morning darkness,
and treads on the heights of the earth—
the Lord, the God of hosts, is his name!(A)
Job 9:9
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9 he made the Bear and Orion,
the Pleiades and the chambers of the south;(A)
Amos 9:6
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6 who builds his upper chambers in the heavens
and founds his vault upon the earth,
who calls for the waters of the sea
and pours them out upon the surface of the earth—
the Lord is his name.(A)
Amos 8:9
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9 On that day, says the Lord God,
I will make the sun go down at noon
and darken the earth in broad daylight.(A)
Psalm 104:20
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20 You make darkness, and it is night,
when all the animals of the forest come creeping out.(A)
Job 38:31-32
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31 “Can you bind the chains of the Pleiades
or loose the cords of Orion?(A)
32 Can you lead forth the Mazzaroth in their season,
or can you guide the Bear with its children?
Job 12:22
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22 He uncovers deep things from the darkness
and brings deep darkness to light.(A)
Luke 1:79
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79 to shine upon those who sit in darkness and in the shadow of death,
to guide our feet into the way of peace.”(A)
Matthew 4:16
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16 the people who sat in darkness
have seen a great light,
and for those who sat in the region and shadow of death
light has dawned.”(A)
Isaiah 42:16
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16 I will lead the blind
by a road they do not know;
by paths they have not known
I will guide them.
I will turn the darkness before them into light,
the rough places into level ground.
These are the things I will do,
and I will not forsake them.(A)
Psalm 107:10-14
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10 Some sat in darkness and in gloom,
prisoners in misery and in irons,(A)
11 for they had rebelled against the words of God
and spurned the counsel of the Most High.(B)
12 Their hearts were bowed down with hard labor;
they fell down, with no one to help.(C)
13 Then they cried to the Lord in their trouble,
and he saved them from their distress;(D)
14 he brought them out of darkness and gloom,
and broke their bonds apart.(E)
Psalm 105:28
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- 105.28 Cn Compare Gk Syr: Heb they did not rebel
Psalm 104:6-9
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6 You cover it with the deep as with a garment;
the waters stood above the mountains.(A)
7 At your rebuke they flee;
at the sound of your thunder they take to flight.
8 They rose up to the mountains, ran down to the valleys,
to the place that you appointed for them.(B)
9 You set a boundary that they may not pass,
so that they might not again cover the earth.(C)
Job 38:34
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34 “Can you lift up your voice to the clouds,
so that a flood of waters may cover you?(A)
Job 38:12-13
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12 “Have you commanded the morning since your days began
and caused the dawn to know its place,(A)
13 so that it might take hold of the skirts of the earth,
and the wicked be shaken out of it?(B)
Job 37:13
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13 Whether for correction or for his land
or for love, he causes it to happen.(A)
1 Kings 18:44-45
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44 At the seventh time he said, “Look, a little cloud no bigger than a person’s hand is rising out of the sea.” Then he said, “Go say to Ahab, ‘Harness your chariot and go down before the rain stops you.’ ” 45 In a little while the heavens grew black with clouds and wind; there was a heavy rain. Ahab rode off and went to Jezreel.
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Exodus 14:24-28
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24 At the morning watch the Lord, in the pillar of fire and cloud, looked down on the Egyptian army and threw the Egyptian army into a panic.(A) 25 He clogged[a] their chariot wheels so that they turned with difficulty. The Egyptians said, “Let us flee from the Israelites, for the Lord is fighting for them against Egypt.”(B)
The Pursuers Drowned
26 Then the Lord said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand over the sea, so that the water may come back upon the Egyptians, upon their chariots and chariot drivers.” 27 So Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and at dawn the sea returned to its normal depth. As the Egyptians fled before it, the Lord tossed the Egyptians into the sea.(C) 28 The waters returned and covered the chariots and the chariot drivers, the entire army of Pharaoh that had followed them into the sea; not one of them remained.(D)
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- 14.25 Sam Gk Syr: MT removed
Exodus 10:21-23
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The Ninth Plague: Darkness
21 Then the Lord said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand toward heaven so that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, a darkness that can be felt.”(A) 22 So Moses stretched out his hand toward heaven, and there was dense darkness in all the land of Egypt for three days.(B) 23 People could not see one another, and for three days they could not move from where they were, but all the Israelites had light where they lived.
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Genesis 7:11-20
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11 In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the fountains of the great deep burst forth, and the windows of the heavens were opened.(A) 12 The rain fell on the earth forty days and forty nights.(B) 13 On the very same day Noah with his sons, Shem and Ham and Japheth, and Noah’s wife and the three wives of his sons entered the ark,(C) 14 they and every wild animal of every kind and all domestic animals of every kind and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth and every bird of every kind.[a] 15 They went into the ark with Noah, two and two of all flesh in which there was the breath of life.(D) 16 And those that entered, male and female of all flesh, went in as God had commanded him, and the Lord shut him in.(E)
17 The flood continued forty days on the earth, and the waters increased and bore up the ark, and it rose high above the earth.(F) 18 The waters swelled and increased greatly on the earth, and the ark floated on the face of the waters.(G) 19 The waters swelled so mightily on the earth that all the high mountains under the whole heaven were covered; 20 the waters swelled above the mountains, covering them fifteen cubits deep.
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- 7.14 Gk: Heb adds every bird, every winged creature
Isaiah 59:10
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10 We grope like the blind along a wall,
groping like those who have no eyes;
we stumble at noon as in the twilight,
among the vigorous[a] as though we were dead.(A)
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- 59.10 Meaning of Heb uncertain
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