16 (A)Give glory to the Lord your God
    (B)before he brings darkness,
before your feet stumble
    on the twilight mountains,
and (C)while you look for light
    he turns it into gloom
    and makes it (D)deep darkness.

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16 Give glory(A) to the Lord your God
    before he brings the darkness,
before your feet stumble(B)
    on the darkening hills.
You hope for light,
    but he will turn it to utter darkness
    and change it to deep gloom.(C)

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Therefore justice is far from us,
    and righteousness does not overtake us;
(A)we hope for light, and behold, darkness,
    and for brightness, but we walk in gloom.

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So justice is far from us,
    and righteousness does not reach us.
We look for light, but all is darkness;(A)
    for brightness, but we walk in deep shadows.

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22 (A)And they will look to the earth, but behold, distress and darkness, the gloom of anguish. And they will be thrust into (B)thick darkness.

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22 Then they will look toward the earth and see only distress and darkness and fearful gloom,(A) and they will be thrust into utter darkness.(B)

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For behold, darkness shall cover the earth,
    and thick darkness the peoples;
but the Lord will arise upon you,
    and his glory will be seen upon you.

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See, darkness(A) covers the earth
    and thick darkness(B) is over the peoples,
but the Lord rises upon you
    and his glory appears over you.

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30 They will growl over it on that day,
    like the growling of the sea.
And if one looks to the land,
    behold, (A)darkness and distress;
and the light is darkened by its clouds.

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30 In that day(A) they will roar over it
    like the roaring of the sea.(B)
And if one looks at the land,
    there is only darkness(C) and distress;(D)
    even the sun will be darkened(E) by clouds.

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19 (A)The way of the wicked is like deep (B)darkness;
    they do not know over what they (C)stumble.

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19 But the way of the wicked is like deep darkness;(A)
    they do not know what makes them stumble.(B)

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19 Then Joshua said to Achan, “My son, (A)give glory to the Lord God of Israel and (B)give praise[a] to him. And (C)tell me now what you have done; do not hide it from me.”

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Footnotes

  1. Joshua 7:19 Or and make confession

19 Then Joshua said to Achan, “My son, give glory(A) to the Lord, the God of Israel, and honor him. Tell(B) me what you have done; do not hide it from me.”

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“And on that day,” declares the Lord God,
    (A)“I will make the sun go down at noon
    and darken the earth in broad daylight.
10 (B)I will turn your feasts into mourning
    and all your songs into lamentation;
(C)I will bring sackcloth on every waist
    (D)and baldness on every head;
(E)I will make it like the mourning for an only son
    and the end of it like a bitter day.

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“In that day,” declares the Sovereign Lord,

“I will make the sun go down at noon
    and darken the earth in broad daylight.(A)
10 I will turn your religious festivals(B) into mourning
    and all your singing into weeping.(C)
I will make all of you wear sackcloth(D)
    and shave(E) your heads.
I will make that time like mourning for an only son(F)
    and the end of it like a bitter day.(G)

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12 (A)Therefore their way shall be to them
    like slippery paths (B)in the darkness,
    into which they shall be driven and fall,
for I will bring disaster upon them
    (C)in the year of their punishment,
declares the Lord.

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12 “Therefore their path will become slippery;(A)
    they will be banished to darkness
    and there they will fall.
I will bring disaster on them
    in the year they are punished,(B)
declares the Lord.

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23 I looked on the earth, and behold, it was (A)without form and void;
    (B)and to the heavens, and they had no light.

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23 I looked at the earth,
    and it was formless and empty;(A)
and at the heavens,
    and their light(B) was gone.

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19 yet you have (A)broken us in the place of (B)jackals
    and covered us with (C)the shadow of death.

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19 But you crushed(A) us and made us a haunt for jackals;(B)
    you covered us over with deep darkness.(C)

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So you must make images of your (A)tumors and images of your mice that ravage the land, (B)and give glory to the God of Israel. Perhaps (C)he will lighten his hand from off you (D)and your gods and your land.

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Make models of the tumors(A) and of the rats that are destroying the country, and give glory(B) to Israel’s god. Perhaps he will lift his hand from you and your gods and your land.

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The Ninth Plague: Darkness

21 Then the Lord said to Moses, (A)“Stretch out your hand toward heaven, that there may be (B)darkness over the land of Egypt, a darkness to be felt.”

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The Plague of Darkness

21 Then the Lord said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand toward the sky so that darkness(A) spreads over Egypt—darkness that can be felt.”

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