Lamentations 3:2
New King James Version
2 He has led me and made me walk
In darkness and not in light.
Lamentations 3:2
New International Version
2 He has driven me away and made me walk
in darkness(A) rather than light;
Isaiah 59:9
New King James Version
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 59:9
New International Version
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
New King James Version
26 (A)But when I looked for good, evil came to me;
And when I waited for light, then came darkness.
Job 30:26
New International Version
26 Yet when I hoped for good, evil came;
when I looked for light, then came darkness.(A)
Jude 13
New King James Version
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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Jude 13
New International Version
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
New King James Version
6 And the angels who did not keep their [a]proper domain, but left their own abode, He has reserved in everlasting chains under darkness for the judgment of the great day;
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- Jude 1:6 own
Jude 6
New International Version
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)
Amos 5:18-20
New King James Version
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?
Amos 5:18-20
New International Version
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)
Lamentations 3:53-55
New King James Version
53 They [a]silenced my life (A)in the pit
And (B)threw [b]stones at me.
54 (C)The waters flowed over my head;
(D)I said, “I am cut off!”
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- Lamentations 3:53 LXX put to death
- Lamentations 3:53 Lit. a stone on
Lamentations 2:1
New King James Version
God’s Anger with Jerusalem
2 How the Lord has covered the daughter of Zion
With a (A)cloud in His anger!
(B)He cast down from heaven to the earth
(C)The beauty of Israel,
And did not remember (D)His footstool
In the day of His anger.
Lamentations 2:1
New International Version
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
New King James Version
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.
Jeremiah 13:16
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Jeremiah 4:23
New King James Version
23 (A)I beheld the earth, and indeed it was (B)without form, and void;
And the heavens, they had no light.
Jeremiah 4:23
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Job 18:18
New King James Version
18 [a]He is driven from light into darkness,
And chased out of the world.
Footnotes
- Job 18:18 Or They drive him
Job 18:18
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Deuteronomy 28:29
New King James Version
29 And you shall (A)grope at noonday, as a blind man gropes in darkness; you shall not prosper in your ways; you shall be only oppressed and plundered continually, and no one shall save you.
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Deuteronomy 28:29
New International Version
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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