24 Bible Verses about Overtaken By Darkness

And it happened, as the sun {went down}, then a deep sleep fell upon Abram and, behold, a great terrifying darkness fell upon him.

And now behold, the hand of the Lord [is] against you, and you will be blind, not seeing the sun {for a while}. And immediately mist and darkness fell over him, and he was going around looking for [people] to lead [him] by the hand.

Therefore justice is far from us, and righteousness does not reach us. We wait for light, but look! [there is] darkness; for brightness, [but] we walk in darkness.

Indeed, I hoped for good, but evil came, and I waited for light, but darkness came.

Indeed, I have not been silenced {because of darkness}, and because of me he conceals thick darkness.

But with a rushing torrent he will bring [Nineveh] to an end; he will chase his enemies into darkness.

What I say to you in the dark, tell in the light, and what you hear in your ear, proclaim on the housetops.

So Jesus said to them, "Yet a little time the light is with you! Walk while you have the light, so that the darkness does not overtake you! And the one who walks in the darkness does not know where he is going.

For [although they] knew God, they did not honor [him] as God or give thanks, but they became futile in their reasoning, and their senseless hearts were darkened.

being darkened in understanding, alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance [that] is in them, because of the hardness of their heart,

[Those who] sat in darkness and gloom, prisoners of misery and iron--

For he comes into vanity and departs into darkness, and his name is shrouded in darkness.

For if a man lives many years, let him rejoice in all of them! Let him remember that the days of the darkness will be many-- all that is coming [is] vanity!

And he will roar over him on that day like [the] roaring of [the] sea, and [if] one looks to the land, look! Darkness! Distress! And [the] light grows dark with its clouds.

For look! darkness shall cover [the] earth, and thick darkness [the] peoples, but Yahweh will rise on you, and his glory will appear over you.

Therefore [it will be as] night to you, without vision, and darkness to you, without divination. And the sun will set on the prophets, and the day will grow dark over them.

for teaching and for testimony?" {surely they [who] speak like this have no dawn}.

They grope [in] the dark {without} light, and he makes them stagger like a drunkard.

My heart throbs violently, my strength leaves me; and the light of my eyes, that also is not with me.

Before the sun, the light, the moon, and the stars darken and the clouds return after the rain.

or [it is so] dark you cannot see, and a flood of water covers you.

And if I should say, "Surely darkness will cover me, and [the] light around me [will be as] night,"

You have removed loved one and friend far from me, my acquaintances [far from my] darkness.

to open [the] blind eyes, to bring [the] prisoner out from [the] dungeon, those who sit [in] darkness from [the] house of imprisonment.