24 Bible Verses about Overtaken By Darkness

And when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and lo, a horror of great darkness fell upon him.

And now behold, the hand of the Lord is upon thee, and thou shalt be blind, not seeing the sun for a season. And immediately there fell on him a mist and a darkness; and he went about seeking some to lead him by the hand.

Therefore is judgment far from us, neither doth justice overtake us: we wait for light, but behold obscurity; for brightness, but we walk in darkness.

When I looked for good, then evil came: and when I waited for light, there came darkness.

Because I was not cut off before the darkness, neither hath he covered the darkness from my face.

But with an over-running flood he will make an utter end of the place thereof, and darkness shall pursue his enemies.

What I tell you in darkness, that speak ye in light: and what ye hear in the ear, that publish ye upon the house-tops.

Then Jesus said to them, Yet a little while is the light with you. Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you: for he that walketh in darkness knoweth not whither he goeth.

Because that when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful, but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.

Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart:

Such as sit in darkness and in the shades of death, being bound in affliction and iron;

For he cometh with vanity, and departeth in darkness, and his name shall be covered with darkness.

But if a man shall live many years, and rejoice in them all; yet let him remember the days of darkness; for they shall be many. All that cometh is vanity.

And in that day they shall roar against them like the roaring of the sea: and if one looketh to the land, behold darkness and sorrow, and the light is darkened in its heavens.

For behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the people: but the LORD will arise upon thee, and his glory will be seen upon thee.

Therefore night shall be to you, that ye shall not have a vision; and it shall be dark to you, that ye shall not divine; and the sun shall go down over the prophets, and the day shall be dark over them.

To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.

They grope in the dark without light, and he maketh them to stagger like a drunken man.

My heart panteth, my strength faileth me: as for the light of my eyes, that also is gone from me.

While the sun, or the light, or the moon, or the stars, are not darkened, nor the clouds return after the rain:

Or darkness, that thou canst not see; and abundance of waters cover thee.

If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me; even the night shall be light about me.

Lover and friend hast thou put far from me, and my acquaintance into darkness.

To open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the prison, and them that sit in darkness out of the prison-house.