Isaiah 8:22
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22 Then they will look to the earth, and see trouble and darkness, gloom of anguish; and they will be driven into darkness.
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Isaiah 5:30
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30 In that day they will roar against them
Like the roaring of the sea.
And if one (A)looks to the land,
Behold, darkness and [a]sorrow;
And the light is darkened by the clouds.
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- Isaiah 5:30 distress
Matthew 22:13
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13 Then the king said to the servants, ‘Bind him hand and foot, [a]take him away, and cast him (A)into outer darkness; there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’
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- Matthew 22:13 NU omits take him away, and
Matthew 8:12
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12 But (A)the sons of the kingdom (B)will be cast out into outer darkness. There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”
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Jeremiah 13:16
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16 (A)Give glory to the Lord your God
Before He causes (B)darkness,
And before your feet stumble
On the dark mountains,
And while you are (C)looking for light,
He turns it into (D)the shadow of death
And makes it dense darkness.
Jude 13
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13 (A)raging waves of the sea, (B)foaming up their own shame; wandering stars (C)for whom is reserved the blackness of darkness forever.
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Zephaniah 1:14-15
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14 (A)The great day of the Lord is near;
It is near and hastens quickly.
The noise of the day of the Lord is bitter;
There the mighty men shall cry out.
15 (B)That day is a day of wrath,
A day of trouble and distress,
A day of devastation and desolation,
A day of darkness and gloominess,
A day of clouds and thick darkness,
Jeremiah 30:6-7
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6 Ask now, and see,
Whether a [a]man is ever in [b]labor with child?
So why do I see every man with his hands on his loins
(A)Like a woman in labor,
And all faces turned pale?
7 (B)Alas! For that day is great,
(C)So that none is like it;
And it is the time of Jacob’s trouble,
But he shall be saved out of it.
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 30:6 Lit. male can give birth
- Jeremiah 30:6 childbirth
Proverbs 14:32
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32 The wicked is banished in his wickedness,
But (A)the righteous has a refuge in his death.
Job 18:18
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18 [a]He is driven from light into darkness,
And chased out of the world.
Footnotes
- Job 18:18 Or They drive him
Luke 21:25-26
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The Coming of the Son of Man(A)
25 (B)“And there will be signs in the sun, in the moon, and in the stars; and on the earth distress of nations, with perplexity, the sea and the waves roaring; 26 men’s hearts failing them from fear and the expectation of those things which are coming on the earth, (C)for the powers of the heavens will be shaken.
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Matthew 24:29
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The Coming of the Son of Man(A)
29 (B)“Immediately after the tribulation of those days (C)the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light; the stars will fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken.
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Amos 5:18-20
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18 (A)Woe to you who desire the day of the Lord!
For what good is (B)the day of the Lord to you?
It will be darkness, and not light.
19 It will be (C)as though a man fled from a lion,
And a bear met him!
Or as though he went into the house,
Leaned his hand on the wall,
And a serpent bit him!
20 Is not the day of the Lord darkness, and not light?
Is it not very dark, with no brightness in it?
Jeremiah 23:12
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12 “Therefore(A) their way shall be to them
Like slippery ways;
In the darkness they shall be driven on
And fall in them;
For I (B)will bring disaster on them,
The year of their punishment,” says the Lord.
Isaiah 9:1
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The Government of the Promised Son(A)
9 Nevertheless (B)the gloom will not be upon her who is distressed,
As when at (C)first He lightly esteemed
The land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali,
And (D)afterward more heavily oppressed her,
By the way of the sea, beyond the Jordan,
In Galilee of the Gentiles.
Isaiah 8:20
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20 (A)To the law and to the testimony! If they do not speak according to this word, it is because (B)there[a] is no light in them.
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- Isaiah 8:20 Or they have no dawn
2 Chronicles 15:5-6
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5 And in those times there was no peace to the one who went out, nor to the one who came in, but great turmoil was on all the inhabitants of the lands. 6 (A)So nation was [a]destroyed by nation, and city by city, for God troubled them with every adversity.
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- 2 Chronicles 15:6 Lit. beaten in pieces
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