'Darkness' in the Bible

Now the earth was formless and empty, and darkness [was] over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God [was] hovering over the surface of the waters.

And God saw the light, that [it was] good, and God caused [there to be] a separation between the light and between the darkness.

And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, [the] first day.

and to rule over the day and over the night, and to {separate light from darkness}. And God saw that [it was] good.

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 Yahweh said to Moses, "Stretch out your hand toward the heavens so that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt and so that [a person can] feel darkness."

And Moses stretched out his hand toward the heavens, and there was darkness of night in all the land of Egypt [for] three days.

{And then} {when you heard} the voice from the midst of the darkness, and [as] the mountain [was] burning with fire, and [and] all the heads of your tribes and your elders approached me,

They cried out to Yahweh, and he put darkness between you and the Egyptians, and he brought the sea over them and covered them; your own eyes saw what I did in Egypt. Then you lived in the wilderness for many days.

He will guard the feet of his faithful ones, but the wicked will be destroyed in the darkness, because a man will not prevail by [his] might.

He put darkness [as] a canopy all around him, a collection of {thick rain clouds}.

For you, O Yahweh [are] my lamp, and Yahweh lightens my darkness.

Let that day become darkness; may God not seek it from above, nor may daylight shine on it.

Let darkness and deep shadow claim it; let clouds settle on it; let them terrify it [with the] blackness of day.

Let darkness seize that night; let it not rejoice among [the] days of [the] year; let it not enter among [the] number of [the] months.

In the daytime they meet [with] darkness, and they grope at noon as [in] the night.

Before I go--and I will not return-- to [the] land of darkness and deep shadow,

to [the] land of darkness, like [the] darkness of a deep shadow and {chaos}, so that it shines forth like darkness.'"

"{And your life will be brighter than noon}; [its] darkness will be like the morning.

"He uncovers mysteries out of darkness, and he brings deep shadow to the light.

{He cannot trust that he will return} from darkness, and he himself is destined for [the] sword.

"He is wandering for bread, [saying], 'Where [is it]?' He knows that a day of darkness [is] ready {at hand}.

"He will not escape from darkness; a flame will dry up his new shoot, and by the wind of his mouth he shall be removed.

They make night into day, [saying], 'Light [is] {near to darkness}.'

If I hope [for] Sheol [as] my house, [if] I spread my couch in the darkness,

"They thrust him from light into darkness, and they drive him out from [the] world.

He has walled up my way so that I cannot pass; and he has set darkness upon my paths.

{Total darkness} is hidden for his treasures; {an unfanned fire} will devour him; [the] remnant {will be consumed} in his tent.

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

He digs through houses in the darkness; by day they shut themselves in-- they do not know [the] light

because morning likewise is to them deep darkness; indeed, they know about [the] terrors of deep darkness.

{He has described a circle} on [the] face of [the] water {between light and darkness}.

He puts an end to darkness, and he searches out the farthest limits [for the] ore [in] gloom and deep shadow.

when his shining lamp [was] over my head-- by his light I walked through darkness--

Through want and through barren hunger they are gnawing [in the] dry region [in the] darkness of desolation and waste.

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

There is no darkness, and there is no deep shadow where instigators of mischief might hide themselves.

"Teach us what we should say to him; we cannot draw up our case because of [the] presence of darkness.

at my making [the] clouds its garment and thick darkness its swaddling band,

For look: The wicked {string the bow}. They have fitted their arrow to [the] string, to shoot from [the] darkness at the upright of heart.

He made darkness his hiding place; all about him his covering [was] a darkness of waters, {thick clouds}.

For you light my lamp; Yahweh, my God, lights up my darkness.

They do not know or consider. They go about in the darkness, [so that] all [the] foundations of [the] earth are shaken.

Are your wonders known in the darkness, [or] your righteousness in [the] land of forgetfulness?

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

[or the] plague [that] spreads in the darkness, [or the] destruction [that] devastates at noon.

Cloud and thick darkness [are] surrounding him; righteousness and justice [are] the foundation of his throne.

You make darkness, and it is night, when all [the] animals of the forest creep about.

He sent darkness and made [it] dark, and they did not rebel against his words.

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

He brought them out of darkness and gloom, and tore off their bonds.

[His] light rises in the darkness for the upright; [he is] gracious and compassionate and righteous.

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

even [the] darkness is not too dark for you, and [the] night shines as the day-- the darkness [and] the light are alike [for you].

those who forsake the paths of uprightness to walk in ways of darkness,

The way of the wicked ones [is] like deep darkness; they do not know what they stumble over.

at twilight, at [the] day's evening, in [the] midst of night and the darkness.

He who curses his father and his mother, his lamp will be extinguished {in the midst of darkness}.

I realized that wisdom has an advantage over folly, just as light has an advantage over darkness.

{The wise man can see where he is walking}, but the fool walks in darkness. Yet I also realized that both of them suffer the same fate.

Also, he eats in darkness all his days; he is frustrated [in] much sickness and resentment.

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!

Ah! Those who call evil good and good evil, those who put darkness for light and light for darkness, those who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!

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.

or look to [the] earth. But look! Distress and darkness, [the] gloom of affliction! And [it will be] thrust [into] darkness!

The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light; light has shined on those who lived in a land of darkness.

[there is] an outcry over the wine in the streets. All joy turns into {darkness}; the joy of the earth disappears.

And on that day, the deaf shall hear [the] words of a scroll, and [the] eyes of [the] blind shall see out of gloom and darkness.

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

And I will lead the blind by a road they do not know; I will cause [them] to tread on paths they have not known. I will make darkness {in their presence} into light and rough places into level ground. These [are] the things I will do, and I will not forsake them.

And I will give you [the] treasures of darkness and treasures of secret places so that you may know that I [am] Yahweh, the one who calls [you] by your name, the God of Israel,

form light and create darkness; make peace and create evil; I [am] Yahweh; do all these [things].

I have spoken not in secrecy, in a place, a land, of darkness, I have not said to the descendants of Jacob, 'Seek me {in vain}!' I, Yahweh, [am] speaking righteousness, declaring uprightness.

Sit silently and go into the darkness, daughter of Chaldea, for {they shall no longer call} you mistress of kingdoms.

saying to the {prisoners}, "Come out!" to those who [are] in darkness, "Show yourselves!" they shall feed {along} [the] ways, and their pasturage [shall be] on all [the] barren heights.

I clothe [the] heavens [with] darkness, and I {make} their covering sackcloth."

Who among you [is] in fear of Yahweh, obeys the voice of his servant? Who walks [in] darkness and has no light, trusts in the name of Yahweh and depends on his God?

if you offer your soul to the hungry, and you satisfy [the] appetite of [the] afflicted, then your light shall rise in the darkness, and your darkness [will be] like noon.

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.

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.

And they did not say, 'Where [is] Yahweh, the one who brought us up from the land of Egypt, the one who led us in the desert, in a land of desert plains and gorges, in a land of dryness and deep darkness, in a land {that no one passes through}, and no human lives there?'

O generation, you see the word of Yahweh. Have I been a desert to Israel? Or a land of great darkness? Why do my people say, 'We roam about freely, we will not come again to you'?

Give glory to Yahweh your God {before} he brings darkness, and {before} your feet stumble on the mountains at twilight. And you will hope for light, but he makes it as gloom, he makes [it] as thick darkness.

"{Therefore} their way will be to them like the slippery places, they will be pushed in the darkness, and they will fall into it, for I will bring disaster on them [in] the year of their punishment," {declares} Yahweh.

He has driven me along, he brought darkness and not light.

In darkness he has let me dwell like [the] dead of long ago.

All sources of light in the heavens, I will make them dark over you, and I will put darkness on your land,'" {declares} the Lord Yahweh.

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

A day of darkness and gloom, a day of cloud and thick darkness, like the dawn spreads on the mountains, a great and strong army! There has been nothing like it from old, and after it nothing will be again {for generations to come}.

The sun will be changed to darkness, and the moon to blood, before the coming of the great and awesome day of Yahweh.

The one who made the Pleiades and Orion and who turns deep darkness into the morning and darkens day [into] night, the one who calls for the waters of the sea and pours them out on the surface of the earth, Yahweh [is] his name!

Alas, those who desire the day of Yahweh, why [is] this for you the day of Yahweh? It [will be] darkness and not light!

[Is] not the day of Yahweh darkness and not light, and pitch dark with no brightness in it?

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.

You should not rejoice over me, O my enemy! When I fall I will stand up; when I sit in darkness Yahweh [will be] a light for me.

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

That day [will be] a day of wrath, a day of trouble and distress, a day of disaster and ruination, a day of darkness and deep gloom, a day of clouds and thick clouds,

the people who sit in darkness have seen a great light, and the ones who sit in the land and shadow of death, a light has dawned on them."

But if your eye is evil, your whole body will be dark. Therefore if the light in you is darkness, how great [is] the darkness!