Isaiah 50:3
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3 I clothe the heavens with blackness
and make sackcloth their covering.(A)
Revelation 6:12
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12 When he broke the sixth seal, I looked, and there was a great earthquake; the sun became black as sackcloth, the full moon became like blood,(A)
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Psalm 18:11-12
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11 He made darkness his covering around him,
his canopy thick clouds dark with water.(A)
12 Out of the brightness before him
there broke through his clouds
hailstones and coals of fire.(B)
Matthew 27:45
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The Death of Jesus
45 From noon on, darkness came over the whole land[a] until three in the afternoon.(A)
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- 27.45 Or earth
Exodus 10:21
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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)
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