6 Bible Verses about Blackness
Most Relevant Verses
“His head is like [precious] gold, pure gold;
His hair is [curly] like clusters of dates
And black as a raven.
The first chariot had red horses (war, bloodshed), the second chariot had black horses (famine, death),
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,
“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).
“I clothe the heavens with the blackness [of storm clouds]
And make sackcloth [of mourning] their clothing.”
From Thematic Bible
Blackness » Figurative
“My skin falls from me in blackened flakes,
And my bones are burned with fever.
Blackness » Figurative » Blackness of darkness
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.