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Bible verses about Darkness

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2And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.

9When I made the cloud the garment thereof, and thick darkness a swaddlingband for it,

23I beheld the earth, and, lo, it was without form, and void; and the heavens, and they had no light.

5And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.

7I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.

21And the LORD said unto Moses, Stretch out thine hand toward heaven, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, even darkness which may be felt.

22And Moses stretched forth his hand toward heaven; and there was a thick darkness in all the land of Egypt three days:

28He sent darkness, and made it dark; and they rebelled not against his word.

21And the people stood afar off, and Moses drew near unto the thick darkness where God was.

18For ye are not come unto the mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, nor unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest,

45Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land unto the ninth hour.

33And when the sixth hour was come, there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour.

20Whoso curseth his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in obscure darkness.

22And they shall look unto the earth; and behold trouble and darkness, dimness of anguish; and they shall be driven to darkness.

10For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light: the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine.

28For this shall the earth mourn, and the heavens above be black: because I have spoken it, I have purposed it, and will not repent, neither will I turn back from it.

16Give glory to the LORD your God, before he cause darkness, and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains, and, while ye look for light, he turn it into the shadow of death, and make it gross darkness.

2He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light.

7And when I shall put thee out, I will cover the heaven, and make the stars thereof dark; I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon shall not give her light.

8All the bright lights of heaven will I make dark over thee, and set darkness upon thy land, saith the Lord GOD.

2A day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds and of thick darkness, as the morning spread upon the mountains: a great people and a strong; there hath not been ever the like, neither shall be any more after it, even to the years of many generations.

10The earth shall quake before them; the heavens shall tremble: the sun and the moon shall be dark, and the stars shall withdraw their shining:

13For, lo, he that formeth the mountains, and createth the wind, and declareth unto man what is his thought, that maketh the morning darkness, and treadeth upon the high places of the earth, The LORD, The God of hosts, is his name.

18Woe unto you that desire the day of the LORD! to what end is it for you? the day of the LORD is darkness, and not light.

20Shall not the day of the LORD be darkness, and not light? even very dark, and no brightness in it?

9And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord GOD, that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the clear day:

8Rejoice not against me, O mine enemy: when I fall, I shall arise; when I sit in darkness, the LORD shall be a light unto me.

29Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:

24But in those days, after that tribulation, the sun shall be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light,

45And the sun was darkened, and the veil of the temple was rent in the midst.

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