34 Bible Verses about darkness, natural

The people heard the thunder and the trumpet blast. They saw the lightning and the smoking mountain. They trembled with fear and stood at a distance. They said to Moses: If you speak to us, we will listen. However, we are afraid that if God speaks to us, we will die. Moses responded: Do not be afraid. God has only come to test you and to inspire you to obey him, so that you will not sin.read more.
But the people continued to stand at a distance. Only Moses went near the dark cloud where God was.

Clouds, gloom and darkness are all around Him. Righteousness and judgment are the foundation of his throne.

Tell your children how you went close and stood at the foot of the mountain covered with thick clouds of dark smoke and fire blazing up to the sky. Tell them how Jehovah spoke to you from the fire. Tell them that you heard him speak but did not see him in any form at all.

Jehovah spoke to us when we gathered on the mountain. He spoke with a loud voice from the dark fiery cloud. Jehovah gave us these words, and only these. Then he wrote them on two flat tablets of stone and gave them to me. Fire blazed from the mountain, and you heard the voice coming from the darkness. Then your elders came to me. They said: 'Today Jehovah our God has shown us how powerful and glorious he is. He spoke to us from the fire. We learned that people could live, even though God speaks to them.

You have not come to a mountain that can be touched, to Mount Sinai with its blazing fire, the darkness and the gloom, the storm. You have not come to the blast of a trumpet, and the sound of a voice. When the people heard the voice, they begged not to hear another word. They could not bear the order: If even a beast touches the mountain, it will be stoned.read more.
The sight was so terrible (formidable) (fearful) that Moses said: I am full of fear and trembling.

I make light and create darkness. I make blessings and create disasters. I, Jehovah, do all these things.

The earth was without form and empty. Darkness covered the deep water. The Spirit of God hovered over the waters. Then God said: Let there be light! And there was light. God saw that the light was good. God separated the light from the darkness.read more.
God called the light day. He called the darkness night. There was evening and there was morning, one day.

He has described a circle on the face of the waters, at the boundary between light and darkness.

The day and the night are yours. You have prepared the light and the sun.

You made the moon for the seasons. The sun knows the place of its setting. You appoint darkness and it becomes night, when all the forest animals prowl about.

God's eyes are on a person's ways. He sees all his steps. There is no darkness or deep shadow where troublemakers can hide.

If I say: Certainly the darkness will overwhelm me! Then the light around me will be night. Even the darkness is not dark to you. And the night is as bright as the day. Darkness and light are alike to you.

He reveals the deep and hidden things. He knows what is in the darkness, and the light dwells with him.

seek the creator of the cluster of stars named Pleiades and the star constellation Orion. He turns the shadow of death into morning, and makes the day dark with night. He calls for the waters of the sea, and pours them out upon the face of the earth. Jehovah is his name! He brings sudden destruction upon the strong. Destruction comes upon the fortress.

God said: Light will shine out of darkness. He shined in our hearts. He gave the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face (presence) ((person) of Jesus Christ.

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

It was the sixth hour and there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour.

It was about the sixth hour. Darkness came over the whole land until the ninth hour. The sun failed to shine. The veil of the temple was torn in two.

Jehovah then said to Moses: Raise your hand toward the sky. Darkness thick enough to be felt will cover the land of Egypt. Moses raised his hand toward the sky. Total darkness fell throughout Egypt for three days. The Egyptians could not see each other. No one left his house during that time. The Israelites, however, had light where they were living.

The angel of God, who had been going before the camp of Israel, moved and went behind them. The pillar of cloud moved from before them and stood behind them. So it came between the camp of Egypt and the camp of Israel. There was the cloud along with the darkness, yet it gave light at night. Thus the one did not come near the other all night.

I brought your ancestors out of Egypt, and the Egyptians pursued them with chariots and cavalry. When your ancestors got to the Red Sea they cried out to me for help. I put darkness between them and the Egyptians. I made the sea come rolling over the Egyptians and drown them. You know what I did to Egypt. You lived in the desert a long time.

He sent his servant Moses, and he sent Aaron, whom he had chosen. They displayed his miraculous signs among them and did amazing things in the land of Ham. He sent darkness and made their land dark. They did not rebel against his orders.

I clothe the heavens in darkness and cover them with sackcloth.

I will show wonders in heaven above, and signs in the earth beneath: blood, and fire, and vapor of smoke. The sun will be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before that great and notable (awesome) Day of Jehovah arrives. (Joel 2:31)

I will show wonders in the sky and on the earth: blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke. The sun will be turned into darkness and the moon into blood, before the great and terrible (awesome) Day of Jehovah comes! It will happen that who ever calls on the name of Jehovah will be saved. There will be those on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem that will escape, even among the survivors whom Jehovah calls.

Then Saul, who also is called Paul, filled with the Holy Spirit, set his eyes on him, And said: You child of the devil, full of all subtlety and mischief, you enemy of all righteousness, will you not cease to pervert the right ways of Jehovah? Look Jehovah's hand is on you. You will be blind and not see the sun for a season. Immediately there fell on him a mist and darkness. He went about seeking some to lead him by the hand.read more.
When he saw what was done the deputy believed. He was astonished at the teaching of God.

You opened the heavens like curtains. You came down with storm clouds under your feet. You rode on the angels as you flew. You soared on the wings of the wind. You surrounded yourself with darkness. You made the dark rain clouds your covers.

He spread apart the heavens and came down with a dark cloud under his feet. He rode on a cherub and he flew. Yes he did soar on the wings of the wind. He made the darkness his hiding place, his pavilion round about, the dark rain clouds his covering.

JOB OPENED HIS MOUTH and cursed the day of his birth. He said: May the day of my birth perish, and the night it was said: 'A boy is born!'read more.
Let that day turn to darkness. May God above not care about it. Let no light shine upon it. Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it once more. May a cloud settle over it and may blackness overwhelm its light. About that night, may thick darkness seize it. May it not be included among the days of the year nor be entered in any of the months. Let the night be barren and may no shout of joy be heard in it. May those who curse days curse that day, those who are ready to lift up Leviathan (Babylonian symbol of sadness and mourning). Let its morning stars become dark and cause it to wait for daylight in vain and not see the first rays of dawn, for it did not shut the doors of the womb on me to hide trouble from my eyes.

The earth was without form and empty. Darkness covered the deep water. The Spirit of God hovered over the waters.

The lights were to govern the day and the night, and to separate light from darkness. God saw that it was good.

About that night, may thick darkness seize it. May it not be included among the days of the year nor be entered in any of the months.

Where is the way to the dwelling of light? And where does darkness reside?

Behold he who formed the mountains and created the wind and declared to man his thoughts, also made the morning darkness and treads upon the high places of the Earth: Jehovah, the God of Hosts, is his name.