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Lamentations 3:2
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Lamentations 3:2
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2 he has driven and brought me
into darkness without any light;
Lamentations 3:2
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Lamentations 3:2
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2 He has driven me away and made me walk
in darkness(A) rather than light;
Isaiah 59:9
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Isaiah 59:9
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9 Therefore justice is far from us,
and deliverance does not reach us;
we wait for light, but there is only darkness;
and for brightness, but we walk in gloom.(A)
Isaiah 59:9
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Isaiah 59:9
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9 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.
Job 30:26
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Job 30:26
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26 But when I looked for good, evil came,
and when I waited for light, darkness came.(A)
Job 30:26
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Job 30:26
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26 Yet when I hoped for good, evil came;
when I looked for light, then came darkness.(A)
Amos 5:18-20
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Amos 5:18-20
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The Day of the Lord a Dark Day
18 Woe to you who desire the day of the Lord!
Why do you want the day of the Lord?
It is darkness, not light,(A)
19 as if someone fled from a lion
and was met by a bear
or went into the house and rested a hand against the wall
and was bitten by a snake.(B)
20 Is not the day of the Lord darkness, not light,
and gloom with no brightness in it?(C)
Amos 5:18-20
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Amos 5:18-20
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The Day of the Lord
18 Woe to you who long
for the day of the Lord!(A)
Why do you long for the day of the Lord?(B)
That day will be darkness,(C) not light.(D)
19 It will be as though a man fled from a lion
only to meet a bear,(E)
as though he entered his house
and rested his hand on the wall
only to have a snake bite him.(F)
20 Will not the day of the Lord be darkness,(G) not light—
pitch-dark, without a ray of brightness?(H)
Jude 13
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Jude 13
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13 wild waves of the sea, casting up the foam of their own shame; wandering stars, for whom the deepest darkness has been reserved forever.(A)
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Jude 13
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Jude 13
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13 They are wild waves of the sea,(A) foaming up their shame;(B) wandering stars, for whom blackest darkness has been reserved forever.(C)
Jude 6
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Jude 6
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6 And the angels who did not keep their own position but deserted their proper dwelling, he has kept in eternal chains in deepest darkness for the judgment of the great day.(A)
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Jude 6
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Jude 6
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6 And the angels who did not keep their positions of authority but abandoned their proper dwelling—these he has kept in darkness, bound with everlasting chains for judgment on the great Day.(A)
Lamentations 3:53-55
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Lamentations 3:53-55
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53 they flung me alive into a pit
and hurled stones on me;(A)
54 water closed over my head;
I said, “I am lost.”(B)
55 I called on your name, O Lord,
from the depths of the pit;(C)
Lamentations 2:1
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Lamentations 2:1
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God’s Warnings Fulfilled
2 How the Lord in his anger
has humiliated[a] daughter Zion!
He has thrown down from heaven to earth
the splendor of Israel;
he has not remembered his footstool
in the day of his anger.(A)
Footnotes
- 2.1 Meaning of Heb uncertain
Lamentations 2:1
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Lamentations 2:1
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Footnotes
- Lamentations 2:1 This chapter is an acrostic poem, the verses of which begin with the successive letters of the Hebrew alphabet.
- Lamentations 2:1 Or How the Lord in his anger / has treated Daughter Zion with contempt
Jeremiah 13:16
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Jeremiah 13:16
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16 Give glory to the Lord your God
before he brings darkness
and before your feet stumble
on the mountains at twilight;
while you look for light,
he turns it into gloom
and makes it deep darkness.(A)
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Jeremiah 13:16
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Jeremiah 4:23
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Jeremiah 4:23
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23 I looked on the earth, and it was complete chaos,
and to the heavens, and they had no light.(A)
Jeremiah 4:23
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Jeremiah 4:23
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Job 18:18
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Job 18:18
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18 They are thrust from light into darkness
and driven out of the world.
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Job 18:18
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Deuteronomy 28:29
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Deuteronomy 28:29
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29 you shall grope about at noon as blind people grope in darkness, but you shall be unable to find your way, and you shall be continually abused and robbed, without anyone to help.(A)
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Deuteronomy 28:29
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Deuteronomy 28:29
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29 At midday you will grope(A) about like a blind person in the dark. You will be unsuccessful in everything you do; day after day you will be oppressed and robbed, with no one to rescue(B) you.
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