6 Bible Verses about Blackness

Most Relevant Verses

Song of Solomon 5:11


“His head is like [precious] gold, pure gold;
His hair is [curly] like clusters of dates
And black as a raven.

Zechariah 6:2

The first chariot had red horses (war, bloodshed), the second chariot had black horses (famine, death),

Hebrews 12:18

For you have not come [as did the Israelites in the wilderness] to a mountain that can be touched and to a blazing fire, and to gloom and darkness and a raging windstorm,

Proverbs 7:9


In the twilight, in the evening;
In the black and dark night.

Job 3:5


“Let darkness and gloom claim it for their own;
Let a cloud settle upon it;
Let all that blackens the day terrify it (the day that I was born).

Isaiah 50:3


“I clothe the heavens with the blackness [of storm clouds]
And make sackcloth [of mourning] their clothing.”

From Thematic Bible


Blackness » Figurative

Job 30:30


“My skin falls from me in blackened flakes,
And my bones are burned with fever.

Joel 2:6


Before them the people are in anguish;
All faces become pale [with terror].

Blackness » Figurative » Blackness of darkness

Jude 1:13

wild waves of the sea, flinging up their own shame like foam; wandering stars, for whom the gloom of deep darkness has been reserved forever.

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