Psalm 44:19
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19 yet you have broken us in the haunt of jackals
and covered us with deep darkness.(A)
Job 3:5
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5 Let gloom and deep darkness claim it.
Let clouds settle upon it;
let the blackness of the day terrify it.(A)
Psalm 51:8
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8 Let me hear joy and gladness;
let the bones that you have crushed rejoice.(A)
Psalm 23:4
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4 Even though I walk through the darkest valley,[a]
I fear no evil,
for you are with me;
your rod and your staff,
they comfort me.(A)
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- 23.4 Or the valley of the shadow of death
Revelation 16:10
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10 The fifth angel poured his bowl on the throne of the beast, and its kingdom was plunged into darkness; people gnawed their tongues in agony(A)
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Revelation 13:11-13
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The Second Beast
11 Then I saw another beast that rose out of the earth; it had two horns like a lamb, and it spoke like a dragon. 12 It exercises all the authority of the first beast on its behalf, and it makes the earth and its inhabitants worship the first beast, whose fatal wound[a] had been healed. 13 It performs great signs, even making fire come down from heaven to earth in the sight of all,(A)
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- 13.12 Gk whose plague of its death
Revelation 13:2
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2 And the beast that I saw was like a leopard, its feet were like a bear’s, and its mouth was like a lion’s mouth. And the dragon gave it his power and his throne and great authority.(A)
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Revelation 12:9
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9 The great dragon was thrown down, that ancient serpent, who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world—he was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.(A)
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Matthew 4:16
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16 the people who sat in darkness
have seen a great light,
and for those who sat in the region and shadow of death
light has dawned.”(A)
Ezekiel 29:3
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3 speak and say: Thus says the Lord God:
I am against you,
Pharaoh king of Egypt,
the great dragon sprawling
in the midst of its channels,
saying, “My Nile is my own;
I made it for myself.”(A)
Jeremiah 14:17
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17 You shall say to them this word:
Let my eyes run down with tears night and day,
and let them not cease,
for the virgin daughter of my people is struck down with a crushing blow,
with a very grievous wound.(A)
Isaiah 35:7
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7 the burning sand shall become a pool
and the thirsty ground springs of water;
the haunt of jackals shall become a swamp;[a]
the grass shall become reeds and rushes.(A)
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- 35.7 Cn: Heb in the haunt of jackals is her resting place
Isaiah 34:13-14
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13 Thorns shall grow over its strongholds,
nettles and thistles in its fortresses.
It shall be the haunt of jackals,
an abode for ostriches.(A)
14 Wildcats shall meet with hyenas;
goat-demons shall call to each other;
there also Lilith shall repose
and find a place to rest.(B)
Isaiah 27:1
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Israel’s Redemption
27 On that day the Lord with his cruel and great and strong sword will punish Leviathan the fleeing serpent, Leviathan the twisting serpent, and he will kill the dragon that is in the sea.(A)
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Psalm 74:13-14
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13 You divided the sea by your might;
you broke the heads of the dragons in the waters.(A)
14 You crushed the heads of Leviathan;
you gave him as food[a] for the creatures of the wilderness.
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- 74.14 Heb food for the people
Psalm 60:1-3
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Psalm 60
Prayer for National Victory after Defeat
To the leader: according to the Lily of the Covenant. A Miktam of David; for instruction; when he struggled with Aram-naharaim and with Aram-zobah, and when Joab on his return killed twelve thousand Edomites in the Valley of Salt.
1 O God, you have rejected us, broken our defenses;
you have been angry; now restore us!(A)
2 You have caused the land to quake; you have torn it open;
repair the cracks in it, for it is tottering.(B)
3 You have made your people suffer hard things;
you have given us wine to drink that made us reel.(C)
Psalm 38:8
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8 I am utterly spent and crushed;
I groan because of the tumult of my heart.(A)
Job 30:29
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29 I am a brother of jackals
and a companion of ostriches.(A)
Job 10:21-22
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21 before I go, never to return,
to the land of gloom and deep darkness,
22 the land of gloom[a] and chaos,
where light is like darkness.’ ”
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- 10.22 Heb gloom as darkness, deep darkness
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