'Darkness' in the Bible

Now the earth was formless and empty. Darkness was on the surface of the deep. God's Spirit was hovering over the surface of the waters.

God saw the light, and saw that it was good. God divided the light from the darkness.

God called the light "day," and the darkness he called "night." There was evening and there was morning, one day.

and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness. God saw that it was good.

When the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell on Abram. Now terror and great darkness fell on him.

Yahweh said to Moses, "Stretch out your hand toward the sky, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, even darkness which may be felt."

Moses stretched forth his hand toward the sky, and there was a thick darkness in all the land of Egypt three days.

It came between the camp of Egypt and the camp of Israel; and there was the cloud and the darkness, yet gave it light by night: and the one didn't come near the other all the night.

The people stayed at a distance, and Moses drew near to the thick darkness where God was.

You came near and stood under the mountain; and the mountain burned with fire to the heart of the sky, with darkness, cloud, and thick darkness.

These words Yahweh spoke to all your assembly on the mountain out of the midst of the fire, of the cloud, and of the thick darkness, with a great voice: and he added no more. He wrote them on two tables of stone, and gave them to me.

It happened, when you heard the voice out of the midst of the darkness, while the mountain was burning with fire, that you came near to me, even all the heads of your tribes, and your elders;

and you shall grope at noonday, as the blind gropes in darkness, and you shall not prosper in your ways: and you shall be only oppressed and robbed always, and there shall be none to save you.

When they cried out to Yahweh, he put darkness between you and the Egyptians, and brought the sea on them, and covered them; and your eyes saw what I did in Egypt: and you lived in the wilderness many days.

He will keep the feet of his holy ones, but the wicked shall be put to silence in darkness; for no man shall prevail by strength.

He bowed the heavens also, and came down. Thick darkness was under his feet.

He made darkness pavilions around himself: gathering of waters, and thick clouds of the skies.

For you are my lamp, Yahweh. Yahweh will light up my darkness.

Then Solomon said, "Yahweh has said that he would dwell in the thick darkness.

Then Solomon said, "Yahweh has said that he would dwell in the thick darkness.

Let that day be darkness. Don't let God from above seek for it, neither let the light shine on it.

Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it for their own. Let a cloud dwell on it. Let all that makes black the day terrify it.

As for that night, let thick darkness seize on it. Let it not rejoice among the days of the year. Let it not come into the number of the months.

They meet with darkness in the day time, and grope at noonday as in the night.

before I go where I shall not return from, to the land of darkness and of the shadow of death;

Life shall be clearer than the noonday. Though there is darkness, it shall be as the morning.

He uncovers deep things out of darkness, and brings out to light the shadow of death.

He doesn't believe that he shall return out of darkness. He is waited for by the sword.

He wanders abroad for bread, saying, 'Where is it?' He knows that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.

He shall not depart out of darkness. The flame shall dry up his branches. By the breath of God's mouth shall he go away.

My face is red with weeping. Deep darkness is on my eyelids.

They change the night into day, saying 'The light is near' in the presence of darkness.

If I look for Sheol as my house, if I have spread my couch in the darkness,

He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.

He has walled up my way so that I can't pass, and has set darkness in my paths.

All darkness is laid up for his treasures. An unfanned fire shall devour him. It shall consume that which is left in his tent.

or darkness, so that you can not see, and floods of waters cover you.

You say, 'What does God know? Can he judge through the thick darkness?

Because I was not cut off before the darkness, neither did he cover the thick darkness from my face.

For the morning is to all of them like thick darkness, for they know the terrors of the thick darkness.

He has described a boundary on the surface of the waters, and to the confines of light and darkness.

Man sets an end to darkness, and searches out, to the furthest bound, the stones of obscurity and of thick darkness.

when his lamp shone on my head, and by his light I walked through darkness,

When I looked for good, then evil came; When I waited for light, there came darkness.

There is no darkness, nor thick gloom, where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves.

Teach us what we shall tell him, for we can't make our case by reason of darkness.

when I made clouds its garment, and wrapped it in thick darkness,

"What is the way to the dwelling of light? As for darkness, where is its place,

For, behold, the wicked bend their bows. They set their arrows on the strings, that they may shoot in darkness at the upright in heart.

He bowed the heavens also, and came down. Thick darkness was under his feet.

He made darkness his hiding place, his pavilion around him, darkness of waters, thick clouds of the skies.

For you will light my lamp, Yahweh. My God will light up my darkness.

They don't know, neither do they understand. They walk back and forth in darkness. All the foundations of the earth are shaken.

You have put lover and friend far from me, and my friends into darkness. A contemplation by Ethan, the Ezrahite.

nor of the pestilence that walks in darkness, nor of the destruction that wastes at noonday.

Clouds and darkness are around him. Righteousness and justice are the foundation of his throne.

You make darkness, and it is night, in which all the animals of the forest prowl.

He sent darkness, and made it dark. They didn't rebel against his words.

Some sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound in affliction and iron,

He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and broke their bonds in sunder.

Light dawns in the darkness for the upright, gracious, merciful, and righteous.

If I say, "Surely the darkness will overwhelm me; the light around me will be night;"

even the darkness doesn't hide from you, but the night shines as the day. The darkness is like light to you.

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

The way of the wicked is like darkness. They don't know what they stumble over.

in the twilight, in the evening of the day, in the middle of the night and in the darkness.

Whoever curses his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in blackness of darkness.

Then I saw that wisdom excels folly, as far as light excels darkness.

The wise man's eyes are in his head, and the fool walks in darkness -- and yet I perceived that one event happens to them all.

All his days he also eats in darkness, he is frustrated, and has sickness and wrath.

for it comes in vanity, and departs in darkness, and its name is covered with darkness.

Yes, if a man lives many years, let him rejoice in them all; but let him remember the days of darkness, for they shall be many. All that comes is vanity.

Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; who put darkness for light, and light for darkness; who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!

They will roar against them in that day like the roaring of the sea. If one looks to the land behold, darkness and distress. The light is darkened in its clouds.

and look to the earth, and see distress, darkness, and the gloom of anguish. They will be driven into thick darkness.

The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light. Those who lived in the land of the shadow of death, on them the light has shined.

In that day, the deaf will hear the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind will see out of obscurity and out of darkness.

to open the blind eyes, to bring the prisoners out of the dungeon, and those who sit in darkness out of the prison.

I will bring the blind by a way that they don't know. I will lead them in paths that they don't know. I will make darkness light before them, and crooked places straight. I will do these things, and I will not forsake them.

I will give you the treasures of darkness, and hidden riches of secret places, that you may know that it is I, Yahweh, who call you by your name, even the God of Israel.

I form the light, and create darkness. I make peace, and create calamity. I am Yahweh, who does all these things.

I have not spoken in secret, in a place of the land of darkness. I didn't say to the seed of Jacob, 'Seek me in vain.' I, Yahweh, speak righteousness. I declare things that are right.

"Sit in silence, and go into darkness, daughter of the Chaldeans; for you shall no more be called the mistress of kingdoms.

saying to those who are bound, 'Come out!'; to those who are in darkness, 'Show yourselves!' "They shall feed in the ways, and on all bare heights shall be their pasture.

Who is among you who fears Yahweh, who obeys the voice of his servant? He who walks in darkness, and has no light, let him trust in the name of Yahweh, and rely on his God.

and if you draw out your soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul: then your light shall rise in darkness, and your obscurity be as the noonday;

Therefore is justice far from us, neither does righteousness overtake us: we look for light, but, behold, darkness; for brightness, but we walk in obscurity.

For, behold, darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the peoples; but Yahweh will arise on you, and his glory shall be seen on you.

Generation, consider the word of Yahweh. Have I been a wilderness to Israel? Or a land of thick darkness? Why do my people say, 'We have broken loose. We will come to you no more?'

Give glory to Yahweh your God, before he causes darkness, and before your feet stumble on the dark mountains, and, while you look for light, he turns it into the shadow of death, and makes it gross darkness.

Therefore their way shall be to them as slippery places in the darkness: they shall be driven on, and fall therein; for I will bring evil on them, even the year of their visitation, says Yahweh.

He has led me and caused me to walk in darkness, and not in light.

All the bright lights of the sky will I make dark over you, and set darkness on your land, says the Lord Yahweh.

he reveals the deep and secret things; he knows what is in the darkness, and the light dwells with him.

A day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness. As the dawn spreading on the mountains, a great and strong people; there has never been the like, neither will there be any more after them, even to the years of many generations.

The sun will be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and terrible day of Yahweh comes.

For, behold, he who forms the mountains, and creates the wind, and declares to man what is his thought; who makes the morning darkness, and treads on the high places of the Earth: Yahweh, the God of Armies, is his name."

"Woe to you who desire the day of Yahweh! Why do you long for the day of Yahweh? It is darkness, and not light.

Won't the day of Yahweh be darkness, and not light? Even very dark, and no brightness in it?

Don't rejoice against me, my enemy. When I fall, I will arise. When I sit in darkness, Yahweh will be a light to me.