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.
Isaiah 59:9
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Sin Confessed
9 Therefore justice is far from us,
Nor does righteousness overtake us;
(A)We look for light, but there is darkness!
For brightness, but we walk in blackness!
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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Joshua 7:19
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19 Now Joshua said to Achan, “My son, I beg you, (A)give glory to the Lord God of Israel, (B)and make confession to Him, and (C)tell me now what you have done; do not hide it from me.”
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Isaiah 60:2
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2 For behold, the darkness shall cover the earth,
And deep darkness the people;
But the Lord will arise over you,
And His glory will be seen upon you.
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
Proverbs 4:19
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19 (A)The way of the wicked is like darkness;
They do not know what makes them stumble.
Amos 8:9-10
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9 “And it shall come to pass in that day,” says the Lord God,
(A)“That I will make the sun go down at noon,
And I will darken the earth in [a]broad daylight;
10 I will turn your feasts into (B)mourning,
(C)And all your songs into lamentation;
(D)I will bring sackcloth on every waist,
And baldness on every head;
I will make it like mourning for an only son,
And its end like a bitter day.
Footnotes
- Amos 8:9 Lit. a day of light
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.
Psalm 96:7-8
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7 (A)Give[a] to the Lord, O families of the peoples,
Give to the Lord glory and strength.
8 [b]Give to the Lord the glory due His name;
Bring an offering, and come into His courts.
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Psalm 44:19
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19 But You have severely broken us in (A)the place of jackals,
And covered us (B)with the shadow of death.
1 Samuel 6:5
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5 Therefore you shall make images of your tumors and images of your rats that (A)ravage the land, and you shall (B)give glory to the God of Israel; perhaps He will (C)lighten[a] His hand from you, from (D)your gods, and from your land.
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- 1 Samuel 6:5 ease
1 John 2:10-11
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10 (A)He who loves his brother abides in the light, and (B)there is no cause for stumbling in him. 11 But he who (C)hates his brother is in darkness and (D)walks in darkness, and does not know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.
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1 Peter 2:8
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8 and
(A)“A stone of stumbling
And a rock of offense.”
(B)They stumble, being disobedient to the word, (C)to which they also were appointed.
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John 12:35
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35 Then Jesus said to them, “A little while longer (A)the light is with you. (B)Walk while you have the light, lest darkness overtake you; (C)he who walks in darkness does not know where he is going.
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Lamentations 4:17
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17 Still (A)our eyes failed us,
Watching vainly for our help;
In our watching we watched
For a nation that could not save us.
Jeremiah 14:19
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The People Plead for Mercy
19 (A)Have You utterly rejected Judah?
Has Your soul loathed Zion?
Why have You stricken us so that (B)there is no healing for us?
(C)We looked for peace, but there was no good;
And for the time of healing, and there was trouble.
Jeremiah 8:15
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15 “We (A)looked for peace, but no good came;
And for a time of health, and there was trouble!
Jeremiah 4:23
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23 (A)I beheld the earth, and indeed it was (B)without form, and void;
And the heavens, they had no light.
Ecclesiastes 12:1-2
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Seek God in Early Life
12 Remember(A) now your Creator in the days of your youth,
Before the [a]difficult days come,
And the years draw near (B)when you say,
“I have no pleasure in them”:
2 While the sun and the light,
The moon and the stars,
Are not darkened,
And the clouds do not return after the rain;
Footnotes
- Ecclesiastes 12:1 Lit. evil
Ecclesiastes 11:8
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8 But if a man lives many years
And (A)rejoices in them all,
Yet let him (B)remember the days of darkness,
For they will be many.
All that is coming is vanity.
Exodus 10:21
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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 darkness over the land of Egypt, [a]darkness which may even be felt.”
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- Exodus 10:21 Lit. that one may feel the darkness
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